tim-tday 4 hours ago

The wealthy and powerful will never vote to disenfranchise themselves. This will go exactly nowhere. Wealth and power protect themselves and always will.

CamperBob2 2 hours ago

Yes, let's create a system where only a few actually have skin in the game. I'm sure that will work swimmingly.

Meanwhile, a large double-digit percentage of workers already pays no US income tax.

  • seanmcdirmid 2 hours ago

    They pay use and payroll taxes. Actually, just moving more of the tax burden over to graduated income and wealth taxes would go a long way to equality. Just taking health insurance into the public system would help. There are lots of easy things we can do, millionaire taxation is kind of just a distraction/strawman.