Comment on White House website publishes a page on "socialism". They think it will scare people to hear that if we tax 1000 billionaires, $355,000 worth of benefits will be distributed to 150,000,000 households.

False@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It covers more than that, once you recover enough to actually fight a legal battle against the 1% they can pursue tax cheats and tax fraud where recovery bumps up to making five dollars for every dollar spent pursuing the debt. It’s take huge chunks out of the national debt every decade kinda money.

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  • False@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    They’re also claiming that 90% of the proposal is Medicare for All. So everything else in the list would be $3550 per household per year if their claim of $35500 per year is to be believed.

    I don’t know that they’re making the argument they think they’re making

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