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hammancheez@hammancheez.bsky.social |
Ur never gonna believe this but apparently taxing the people with all the fucking money can pay for essential public services
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Cwnidog 🍉🇵🇸
@cwnidog.bsky.social
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We voted it in last year, over the dire warnings of the well-to-do. Glad we did.
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Pete Burton
@peteburton.bsky.social
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Wow a novel idea!
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the innominate one
@vir-innominatum.bsky.social
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Unfortunately they can also afford to relocate to low tax states.
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Alex Attinson
@alexatt.bsky.social
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Rich people spending 183 days in Florida or Delaware is one of those things that only sounds good on paper.
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Put A Lil Umph In It For Equality 🇵🇸
@dylandoh111.bsky.social
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Saw this news on The Damage Report today and it made me think about moving to Massachusetts. I hope my state does something like this, but I highly doubt it will. Way to go Massachusetts!
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✨Tom Fenny✨
@tomfoxers.bsky.social
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But.. they EaRnEd that money!! From working so HaRd! So much hArDeR than YOU have ever worked. They had to be BORN into wealth, do you know how difficult dealing with your frustrating private tutors and the foie gras not being spiced properly?? Torture I tell you. Common blood would never understand
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Moondoggie
@moondogrick.bsky.social
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I often point out that when Reagan took office the national debt was about $900 billion even after we had funded two world wars, Korea, Vietnam, public works projects such as the TVA, built an interstate highway system, fully funded the New Deal and Great Society, put a man on the moon and more. 🤷♂️
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proud rebel scum ⚛️
@proudrebelscum.bsky.social
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but they're using it to pay for things like "tuition free community college" - that's just going to lead to education and breaking cycles of poverty! oh...wait...that's good. carry on.
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Rich
@hopstache.bsky.social
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This is up there with all the stories about how giving people money reduces homelessness and poverty in the “no shit” hall of fame
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Ravin Boodram
@rvbdrm.com
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This one trick they don’t want you to know about
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Maltose Zaddy🍻
@troubeerdourks.bsky.social
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Wow, is this why they’re against taxes? Who could have predicted this?
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JoWonderland
@jowonderland.bsky.social
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Who would have known (s)
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Nicholas Slayton
@nslayton.bsky.social
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Rich people are frantically sticking fingers in their ears
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Jonathan Aul
@mudshark58.bsky.social
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What a surprise.
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Sean Eric Fagan
@kithrup.bsky.social
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California is, apparently, having significant budget issues because so many rich people left the state (and moved their businesses) after CA increased taxes. Is that a warning, or something that will balance itself out after a few years? I've no clue.
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Victor Catano
@vgcatano.bsky.social
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In related news, it turns out you CAN solve a lot of problems by throwing money at them. Especially if the problem is “not having enough money.”
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Nurseferatu
@nurseferatu.bsky.social
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I’d be even more excited to see billionaires get taxed in direct correlation to their cost to the nation and planet.
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Mary Kimball
@thislemontwist.bsky.social
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Washington State has a new similar law and in 2023 the program brought in hundreds of millions of dollars for education!
washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/state...
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Bruce Cullen
@bacullenyyc.bsky.social
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Why is it that so many super rich people forget that having a functioning society is what gave them the ability to amass their wealth. You know, giving back and all that…
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Robin Marwick
@electricland.bsky.social
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No way
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Sparky
@acheyhp.bsky.social
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"That money is being allocated through the state budget to things like universal free meals in public schools, tuition-free community college, and repairs to the MBTA." Tax The Rich.
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Georgia Z
@seedarkly.bsky.social
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Massachusetts! WOOOOOO! (that's all I wanted to add.)
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JoyComethInTheMorning
@sheadapts.bsky.social
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Oh yes. That's my music.
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Momin Khan
@fool.dev
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This is gonna pay for so much police overtime, nice!!
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Anella Writes
@anellawrites.bsky.social
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Shocking.
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The Creatively Maladjusted
@tyrotcm.bsky.social
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Including UBI, universal healthcare, and permanently ending homelessness and hunger at least in the developed world & probably worldwide (via reparations—fuck colonialism).
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Chuck E. 🌊🦋
@emdashpython.bsky.social
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The only thing that makes conservatives madder than taking away their money is then spending on needed social programs that primarily benefit the poorest members of our society. Blow it on aircraft carriers and they’d complain less.😉
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@ethelmay.bsky.social
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Same thing happened in Washington State, even after they took a lot of the teeth out of the original version of the law. www.king5.com/article/mone...
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Caitlin Gillooly
@looly.bsky.social
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wild what people will pay for top notch education and reproductive freedom.
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IngeniousGhost
@ingeniousghost.bsky.social
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I mean, these are the same people who forget that the tax rate for corporations was in the 70 to 80 percent range during their "good old days of yesteryear."
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Chad R
@rpgeek12.bsky.social
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An amazing discovery.
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Marxist Theories & Lore
@marxistlore.bsky.social
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Don't worry, the legislature made sure to undo this immediately afterwards
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