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by BlueTemplar 2311 days ago
> You need to provide evidence for the middle class dying off.

Well, the demographics themselves might be elsewhere (or not), but the graph in the article does show the 90% doing worse. Especially if one equates "middle class" with "being able to afford health care and to go to college without being saddled by crushing debt".

> And you need to provide more than an opinion piece of rhetoric to substantiate your claim of a "10% aristocracy".

No, I don't think so, this isn't a research paper.

> Finally, you need to provide some evidence of why someone having more money than someone else is bad.

I don't, if only it was so easy !

> Send [the government bill] to everyone and everyone pays the same amount. This makes a lot of sense

No, it doesn't, I'm surprised that there are still people that would even think that - and how exactly are you going to tax homeless people that way, huh ?