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by keybored 52 days ago
Taxes as they currently exist are a bandaid on wealth inequality. Getting rid of rich people parasitism would be a better way to balance the budget than either right-libertarian principles or taxing commoners for their stress relief like tobacco.

Though judging by the amount milords in the article I suspect that is far ways off.

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Wealth inequality is a nonissue. Nobody has ever been able to provide me with any evidence to the contrary.
Not an insignificant amount of ink has been spilled on this over the centuries. So I guess you will never be convinced otherwise.
Not until someone provides evidence for it no