What's amazing about billionaires complaining about a 2% wealth tax is that middle class families who own a home already pay that, we just call it "property tax". If your wealth is in a $300k home you pay a wealth tax. If your wealth is in billions in stock you pay nothing.
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One could almost say that working class americans have taxation without representation
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And labor is taxed at an even higher rate than wealth.
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Eliminate the extremely regressive payroll tax and we could get many soft libertarian converts IMO. People are waking up.
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What I have LONG found "interesting" here in the US is the GOP wingnuts who so LOVE a "flat tax" for individuals will never, ever mention a corporate flat tax because big biz might have to actually pay something!
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6-8% wealth tax.
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Wow. It's ridiculous. And scandalous.
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...based on simulation model over the data from 1990...
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I didn’t know that, thanks!
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