Even if I asked my MAGA dad if we should to tax the rich he'd say "fuck yeah we do."
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I'm surprised. My semi-maga father-in-law would come up with a bunch of excuses he parrots from fox news.
Like he has a half dozen times.
You can't be specific. If you say "tax the rich" they will say yes. But as soon as you start listing off billionaires they will back down. They want to tax the rich, they just still think there are good billionaires.
I don’t think they do. But they DO think there are billionaires who will support their personal views and provide dividends to the worthy few right thinkers.
I don't want to just tax billionaires I want to tax them into extinction.
2 things shouldn't exist in our society. Hunger and billionaires.
Americans want all kinds of extreme and crazy things, like healthcare and education and housing and food and not being shot in the face. Unfortunately the best the government can do is shoot them in the face.
That's radical left antifa that should be exterminated as cockroaches. True Americans love billionaires, fetishize money and equate having a billion with divinity. Other "Americans" are expendable.
Read in Trump's voice
Read in Trump’s voice
Too many syllables, too coherent.
Tax them?
Prohibit them
I want a world wide hard cap on personal wealth. Nobody should have more than 10 million in personal net worth. Helo, even a million might be on the high side, but cap it somewhere there.
Anything over that, 100% to taxes
You don't have to change away from capitalism, it's fine, it works well to generate loads of wealth and as long as there are hard caps, nobody will get crazy rich, governments will get loads in income for free healthcare, free education, hell, even universal basic income
Point is: nobody should be either crazy wealthy or crazy powerful.
Having said that, add powerto that list too. Nobody should be able to be president, too much power. Nobody should be able to singlehandedly declare or start a war just because he's a pedophile and needs a distraction. Nobody should be able to just overrule judges and liberate their cronies for money
And after all that don't think the US is off the hook. It needs a complete overhaul, politically, justice systems, and so on, and I'd say, split up into the 50 states it has, but now each state being an independent country. (Same for Russia and China, btw)
I don't want to they're rich because they're smarter and better than us.
And marvellously virile, too