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by ObscureMind 478 days ago
You're walking down the street with a billionaire.

A thief approaches, but only robs you.

Would your complaint be that the billionaire should have been robbed too?

Taxation is coercion. Instead of resenting those who manage to keep more of what they earn, consider that billionaires are the ones taking risks, investing, and creating jobs. If anything, the real issue is government waste, not who’s being “robbed” the least. To that extent, what DOGE is doing, at least for the moment, is something positive, regardless of the political spin around it.
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AlecSchueler 478 days ago
If the billionaire planned the mugging and kept the money then I damn sure would be pretty pissed
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TomK32 478 days ago
You still believe in the trickle-down myth? If you are against equality, that's okay, but at least admit it and allow those who weren't fortunate enough to have wealthy parents (like Musk and Trump) to live a life without worries about health-care, housing and food.
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TFYS 478 days ago
Every rule in our society is upheld with coercion. Even if we had zero taxation, there'd be plenty of other rules that people would be coerced into following. Without a democratic government, the rules that people are forced to follow will be the ones these billionaires choose. I'd bet that those rules are going to be a lot worse for the average person than current levels of taxation.

What we are now seeing is the end result of capitalism. Wealth concentration so bad that a few billionaires can take over and start making their own rules.

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turtlesdown11 478 days ago
>consider that billionaires are the ones taking risks, investing, and creating jobs

lol

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dang 478 days ago
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

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turtlesdown11 478 days ago
meanwhile over here in reality, the thief was in the employ of the billionaire
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