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Damn, that's interesting!

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It's not enough to make everybody rich (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by Tabooki@lemmy.world to c/damnthatsinteresting@lemmy.ml
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If you took all the money from every American billionaire and gave it away each American would get 23k. Once.

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[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Since when would tax reform mean the money is distributed among the people? The intended goal of tax reform is to make more money available for things that benefit the public, like education or roads or what have you. Yes, I know, now you're going to snark about politicians never ever actually using tax money in that way. Not the point.

Edit: typo

[–] frisbird@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You could make a UBi with the tax money. You could spend it on singlepayer public healthcare. You could fund pensions with it. It doesn't matter.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's not simply distributing the money to everyone like the OP is thinking.

[–] frisbird@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Yes, and even if you did it, it wouldn't help.