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.
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago[deleted]
cecilkorik@piefed.ca 1 week ago
The sick part is that what is being asked is actually so inconsequential to the billionaires that not only will their line still go up, if we change nothing else but this, even wealth inequality itself will still keep going up, it will just go up at a slightly less supersonic speed. They don’t even care about the amount of money we’re asking for, they care about the precedent that if we can take this from them, what’s stopping us from taking everything from them.
That’s what they’re actually scared of. That’s why they resist this so hard. That’s why they don’t bend. They think that once the people slip out of their stranglehold they will get a taste of billionaire blood and they will like it.
And they might be right.
darthelmet@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That and the fact that they can’t extract profits from services which have been made public. If we get free healthcare there are a bunch of
leechesinsurance execs that will be out of a job.