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0 pointsmercutio29y ago0 comments

Great! That's the point. People in my tax bracket should be paying vastly more in taxes.

People who lobby for basic income certainly shouldn't pussyfoot around the notion that it's fundamentally a redistributive tax.

My goal is to eliminate poverty for US citizens who don't insist on living in extremely high cost areas. Secondary goals are to enable the poor to refuse to do bullshit jobs, and undermine the deeply-held notion that wage work is ennobling.

The only way to achieve such redistribution is now, as it has always been, to tax rich people like me.

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3pt141599y ago

Hey I'm there with you. I'd rather people in the 1% pay 80% taxes instead of 40% taxes, but the reality is that very, very, very few people in the 1% think like we do, and a good number people in the upper middle class and middle class are going to be worse off as well. It's obviously the long term solution, but it's not politically palatable yet.

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