• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Absolutely. We don’t need kings making decisions like this. The downside is the difficulty in forcing government and the anti-help-anyone segment of our society to spend such taxation correctly to actually help people.

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      30 minutes ago

      anti-help-anyone segment of our society

      This is the biggest problem (IMHO) to getting government to assist anyone that is not already rich. The rich get help - i.e. which gets a special tax break:

      1. Walmart opening a new store (and driving all the little people out of business)?
      2. The little business owner who hires 2-5 employees?

      The haves scream they are being “robbed” if you suggest taking any of “their tax dollars” to help the have-nots. It’s not “their tax dollars”, it’s “our tax dollars”.

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      2 days ago

      I’m also angry he did a good thing despite the government’s abject failure to tax the rich.