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Not our chosen leaders. Not our way of life. (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Speaking of guillotines..

Can anyone here edit videos?

I have an original piece of music of about 1 minute length, I was hoping to work with someone on adding images of rich people mixed what short clips of a rising guillotine blade or something like that.

The audio is ready. I was thinking of editing some video for it myself, but it is not really my area of expertise..

[–] krzschlss -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But you did choose those leaders, by accepting the two party system and always voting for the lesser evil. The phenomenon of ‘the lesser evil’ isn’t born out of necessity, it is manufactured, so the people who have money can earn even more wealth and power every 4 years by giving you their option for leadership.

I like the idea of the guillotine, but those blades have never been sharpened in the US… you always liked your less evil leaders.

[+] darkseer -8 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Can't raise taxes for the rich exclusively in the US. The 16th amendments wording prohibits raising taxes for specific individuals or groups of people. It has to be that everyone pays more taxes or it violates the Constitution. So if any politician says they're going to make the rich pay their fair share, keep in mind that you're going to pay more too.

[–] unfreeradical 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The emphasis of the post is not taxation.
A progressive income tax, as well as augmentation of the capital gains tax, are various ways to tax the rich that are obviously constitutional.
While some right-wing sources insist a wealth tax is unconstitutional, in fact no judicial inquiry has yet been tried, and mainstream sources readily affirm its viability.

[–] darkseer 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not saying that the progressive income tax is illegal. I'm stating an increase on one bracket will also mean an increase on all brackets. And such things as raising property taxes or the capital gains tax will hurt others than those you want to pay.

[–] unfreeradical 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please justify your claim that increasing the marginal tax rate for one bracket requires doing so for all.

Also note, even taking your claim on its merits, those in lower brackets benefit more greatly from spending on social programs. A household may experience a small rise in taxes offset by a large gain from in social spending.

[–] darkseer 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Realistically? The number of people in the top tax bracket. There are less than a thousand reported in the US. Even if you give them an average of half a billion dollar incomes each it only adds up to around 5 billion dollars total. Not much. But, if you take the working population of the US and an average income of 30,000 dollars you get a total of 9 trillion dollars to work with. No matter how you work it there will always be more water in a shallow lake than a deep puddle.

And other ways to increase taxes on them sound equally attractive until you take a 80% hit on your 401k when you retire or your property taxes spike.

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