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by samiv 349 days ago
"Heavy redistribution of wealth is already in place and it's not making things better."

You're right, because the distribution is removing large groups of people from the economy.

Just for reference, this has been done before and it produced possibly one of the best economies (at the time) and it was very social democrat. This was the United States after the so called "New Deal".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal

And just to make it crystal clear, we're not talking about taxing working people. We're talking about taxing the obscenely wealthy people who just sit on massive amounts of wealth, whether it's stocks or property or yachts or mansions or gold and jewelry. You know the > 10-1000x millionairs