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by vinyl7 116 days ago
Taxing the rich means that there are fewer people with absurd money, which means businesses won't have many customers at such high prices. It's like McDonalds charging $5 for a quarter of a potato. They're hoping that the lost sales from the poors at such a high price is made up by fewer high priced purchases by the rich.

If even the rich couldn't or didnt want to afford $5 quarter potatoes then they'd have to lower the price

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Do you think that billionaires are buying a meaningful number of large fries from McDonald's? That's... well... good luck with that.