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I have a great idea! Let's not tax the rich until we improve our democracy. And let's not improve the democracy until we can get the rich taxed.
Even better, let's do nothing unless we can get all of the things working at once at the same time! Incremental changes are for fools!
/sarcasm
Taxing the rich does nothing until you can fix the government. Fix the government first, and you can fix the rest. The government is the rich, they aren't going to do anything that would impact themselves. Some of them talk a good game, but if push comes to shove, they aren't going to raise taxes on themselves.
"Fix the government"? The government already knows how to spend money. They spend hundreds of billions of dollars every year on things that benefit everyday Americans. Okay, so there's corruption. There's corruption in literally every government on Earth. The answer is to start taxing the rich more.
Great, and when that money disappears into contracts for their friends and donors, which do nothing for everyday people, then what? The rich got punished (yay!), and it did nothing for anyone else. Sounds pointless.