To this day, Sanders' proposed exit tax remains one of the most alarming authoritarian proposals I've ever seen from a US presidential candidate. Confiscating property with explicit intent to keep a particular class of citizens from voluntarily leaving is a *hell* of a precedent
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Everyone should be balking at this. Taxation is supposed to represent something akin to a consensual agreement between governance and governed. We don't just revoke your property rights to an arbitrary extent and call it a "tax" if you don't agree to the new terms
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"Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us." - John F. Kennedy https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/berlin-w-germany-rudolph-wilde-platz-19630626 …
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No millionaire or billionaire is going to be stopped by this tax.
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Well said.
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yeah surprised at the number of people who call trump hitler who are now ralllying for Bernie
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