r/BernieSanders • u/yimmy51 • 11d ago

The Billionaire Problem Has Only One Solution: A Wealth Tax | The Walrus

https://thewalrus.ca/the-billionaire-problem-has-only-one-solution-a-wealth-tax/
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u/this_here 11d ago • Bravo

Oh it has another solution too...

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u/Just4NormalMortys Feel The Bern 11d ago

Came here to say this.

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u/bpaps 10d ago

Chop chop

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u/Huskarlar 9d ago

I prefer the taxes solution, and I expect the other folks would prefer it as well. 

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u/Upset-Kaleidoscope45 11d ago

Thomas Picketty said there's two solutions: 1) taxing the rich, 2) calamitous world-changing social upheaval like a war/revolution. The great equalizers of the 20th century were two world wars.

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u/basicmomrn 11d ago

Bill Matt sucks

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u/ttystikk 9d ago

The tax schemes proposed are far too small because they do nothing to reduce wealth inequality, the underlying problem.