• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    Roth on Tuesday stressed the significant contributions of the city’s wealthiest residents to its tax base and said these members of the so-called one-percent are “not enemies” and are “at the top of the great American economic pyramid for a reason.”

    There it is. The “we’re better than you and deserve more” conceit.

    • Breezy@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      No not at all. How can you compare making people pay taxes they owe with people talking about eating them.

      Let there be millionaires and billionaires, but they have to pay a lot of taxes for how much they get.

      Some billionaires pay less in taxes a year then poor people do.

  • kvasir476@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    He really won’t like what people replace ‘tax’ with if they’re not allowed to say “tax the rich.”

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      1 day ago

      Wealth inequality is killing quality if life. We would like to put that wealth to productive use through taxation and government investments, but setting it on fire (metaphorically) would still leave the average person better off.

      If we can’t tax it or destroy it, then people will be pushed further and further until they have nothing to lose, and after that, things will get ugly.