Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age'
Koarnine@pawb.social 2 weeks agoWhen the richest don’t have any income, and therefore don’t pay any income tax, it’s not ever going to be fair. They got that rich through exploitation of public goods and services and refuse to pay back in to the system that made them. We must tax wealth as too many have ‘passive income’ in the form of unrealised gains on stocks which they never sell, they take loans out against their value and continuously buy more and more assets until there is nothing left.
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m sorry but s soon as you start using the “exploit” when talking about wealth, you give yourself up. Let me guess - capitalism is the problem, and socialism or communism is the answer?
Koarnine@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Give yourself up? As a person with a functioning brain or…?
Exploitation is the name of the game, or what do you prefer to refer to it as?
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So you think socialism or communism is the answer?
Koarnine@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
So you are incapable of arguing the facts and so move to ad hominem?
I think properly taxing the financially obese is the answer. Obesity is harmful.