• IamtheMorgz@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Funny, the older I get the more progressive I get. Same for most of the people I know (I’m a millennial). It used to be you got more conservative as you got older but i think the consensus now is you get more conservative the richer you get and well, my generation isn’t getting richer. I think we all just realize how easy it would be to pay the bill if we would just tax the rich.

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          11 months ago

          You have that backwards. What taxes aren’t we collecting that could be going to everyone? Why should some 40K a year guy have to pay 10% of his income as taxes and someone like Bezos doesn’t?

          The US used to have a 69% tax rate for the ultra wealthy before Regan took office. We should bring that back.

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      11 months ago

      the ‘freebies and handouts’ are a miniscule portion of government revenue and expenses.