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Comment by scruple

2 days ago

And the top 10% of earners pay something like 70% of the tax receipts. Cratering that tax base is going to wipe out social programs and payrolls back and forth across the entire country.

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triceratops  1 day ago

That might finally make people see the sense in wealth taxes or land value taxes.

kakacik  2 days ago

Not a concerns for folks working on it, its the-others-problem all the way down, or simply human greed

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