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    Ja, es ist Zeit, die Reichen zu besteuern


    Ja, es ist Zeit, die Reichen zu besteuern

    https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/time-to-tax-rich

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    1. AmyWilliamse on

      If the system lets the richest benefit the most, it’s not unreasonable to expect them to contribute the most.

    3. Blackthorn79 on

      Taxes are the least of what needs to happen. We need to prosecute them and bankrupt them personally. As long as the ultra wealthy can buy government officials they’ll keep trying to take every penny in America. They treat life as a zero sum game with their bank accounts as a score board.

    4. BearDiscombobulated4 on

      We are far beyond the point where that should have already been the case.

      But no!!! In my country, inheriting 300 apartments is tax-free…
      It’s all a joke now, just politics of the rich for the rich.
      No matter who you vote for

    7. YF422 on

      Whats needed is to tax billionaires out of existence, they are literally the real life equivilent of MMO dupers. People getting rich is of course part of why they work to better themselves but no one person should have the sort of wealth and financial resources of a nation state nor should they be allowed to lobby or influence politics. The wealth curve needs to be levelled out a good bit to keep the entire system balanced.

    8. ImpressiveMethod8624 on

      What’s really funny 🤣 is trump did a great job of taxing all Americans across the board with tariffs including the poor and elderly, he shut down every program that helped the poor and working class, he fired airport employees and gutted instrumental government jobs all while manipulating the stock market so the wealthiest tripled their money just to keep from taxing the wealthy 🤑 now he went and lost a war to Iran that is going to force him to raise taxes on the wealthy too. Funny how evidence of his crimes is starting to bubble up like him showing classified photos on a plane that led to the removal of stolen documents from his home and the „bogus“ investigation that followed. How long before photos of him on the island pop up?

    9. MalevolentTapir on

      It was time to tax the rich.

      Now it is time to investigate them for corruption, bribery, insider trading, seize their assets, and throw them in prison

    10. forenergypurposes on

      What’s the point of articles like this? Whats the plan to tax the rich that doesn’t involve wiping the floor with the GOP in election after election until nothing is left? Right now we’re in the opposite reality because 80% of Americans may support taxing the rich but when it comes time to pull the lever people on both the left and right sides of that group decide they want to let republicans win again.

    11. HowardBunnyColvin on

      Rich people have plenty of money they can just make some more. Tax that ass

    12. Chaprito on

      Been hearing this since I was a weee lad. I’m 33 now. Probably won’t be happening until in in my death bed.

    13. Knighth77 on

      Yes, let’s ask the system that’s designed to serve the rich to tax them. Good luck!

    17. barrett1967 on

      It’s time to stop voting for people who want to give tax breaks to the rich start wars and raise the deficit

    18. teamdiabetes11 on

      The time to tax the rich was a long fucking time ago. Republicans have been cutting taxes on the rich and businesses for decades. And Americans just kept voting for it. They were happy for their extra $200/year tax return, not understanding that they still lost to inflation. Meanwhile, it fed the narrative of an ineffective government and gave Republicans more of a platform to campaign on. Rinse and repeat. And only now, when it’s probably too late to fix, are Americans almost starting to wake up to how fucked their social systems are. Insanity.

    19. OvulatingScrotum on

      It’s time, but no one will do it. Why? Because they think the government will eventually go after people who make $50k/yr. Look what’s happening in Washington state. The poor conservatives are butt hurt about taxing those who make over a mil.

    20. geddy on

      The reason we cannot allow people to become billionaires is because money equals power. If you can buy politicians, then the people are no longer represented, only the billionaires are represented. Which means we are back to the classic problem of taxation without representation.

    21. Electrical-Staff735 on

      The wealth the current rich have makes the aristocracy of the past look poor.

    25. No_Friend4042 on

      Let’s get tax rates from the biggest boom period in North America… the 1950s, where income above $200,000 (about a million today) gets taxes at 90%

    27. ExtruDR on

      The rich do not only benefit from shared infrastructure and other shared social structures.

      The rich literally benefit (extremely disproportionately) from our presence in the world as consumers, producers of labor, as people that advise them, run their businesses for them, as people that look after them when they are sick, etc.

      Literally, the rich can get the best healthcare in the world world at any time (since they have the cash to support it) because the rest of us are paying horribly inflated and unfair prices for healthcare (in the form of shit insurance and really stupid costs from providers).

      Our shit deal means that the infrastructure that is awesome hospitals, MRI machines, etc. are all waiting and ready for their use while we are paying for them to get bought, maintained, etc. but the standard for use to access them is WAY higher than for them.

      I won’t go on too much longer, but let’s talk about laws and policing. My house gets broken into to. The cops show up, shrug and file a bullshit report for me to use with my insurance company.

      A rich guy gets his lambo broken into or gets a Rolex stolen and a suburban detective gets assigned to call every pawn shop and Facebook marketplace.

    28. r2v-42nit on

      Is there publicly shared documentation from countries beyond the US that their rich are paying their fair share of taxes so that we can use this information to help with the efforts to get the rich in the US to pay their fair share of taxes?

    30. HeyKid_HelpComputer on

      The absolute warmest take in the world. Ground breaking novel stuff, here.

    31. Andovars_Ghost on

      We should have kept the friggin marginal rates from the 50’s, you know the ‘golden times’ according to Republicans. Nowadays we could probably do better by taxing the markets and trades. Also need some ruthless auditing of the books of both corporations and the super wealthy, NOT someone barely over the poverty line.

    32. Rough-Breadfruit-611 on

      ha. OK let’s ask congress (AKA the rich) to do that for us. (it will never happen)

    33. Collador1 on

      The top 10% pay about 75% of the total taxes, and about half of the US doesn’t pay income taxes at all.

      I’m not saying that there shouldn’t be conversation here, but the idea that the rich aren’t already paying the vast majority isn’t accurate.

      Who Pays Federal Income Taxes? Latest Federal Income Tax Data https://share.google/qJNaFicxlrpvqApk0

    36. jayboker on

      Need to do more than that to the rich and soulless politicians. A condition of having a soul is empathy and love. Every true child of the creator has a soul. If a person has no empathy or love in their heart then they are not a child of the creator and are instead demons and must be removed from the creators light to remove their corruption. They are demons who will eat, sexually assault and torture your children. They thrive on consuming innocence and destroying the Creator’s light and potentiality.

    37. AssociationMore242 on

      The rich people are in charge of making laws about who gets taxed, so good luck with that.

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