Comments by "" (@thehumanity0) on "Elizabeth Warren Propose A 'Wealth Tax' On The Top .1%" video.

Kyle is right that Warren has been good on these issues for decades. It's annoying when people claim she's a full-stop "fraud" because she didn't endorse someone and played politics. The same people who defend Tulsi Gabbard for literally just making the "both sides" argument on the gov't shutdown, her views on torture and numerous black spots on her record. They're both progressives, I'm tired of the dishonest narrative from so-called "progressives" on this.
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@KingJT80 And that somehow makes Warren not a progressive? What is your point?
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Right now both Warren and Gabbard are Bernie's opponents, so if anything you should be trying to convince Warren and Gabbard to drop out after the first round of debates if they want to be his "VP".
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@KingJT80 If we're going to play dishonest games, then the people calling Warren a "fraud" should have to deal with others calling Tulsi Gabbard a paleo-conservative. Truthfully though, I think both of them are progressives. They both have issues on their record, which is why Bernie is better than both of them for the presidential candidacy, but it doesn't mean either of them should be shamed for their past and labeled as anything but. For the record though, it seems like the people backing Tulsi Gabbard continually are the ones making these hacky arguments against both Warren and Bernie, when the person they're propping up has far worse problems than Bernie and is mostly on par with Warren's down-sides.
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@thekidnamedcudi8850 First of all, they would have to upend their entire lives to move to another country. Secondly, they get massive public scorn for doing something like that when it's clearly a ploy to not pay taxes. Just ask the guy who started Facebook, Eduardo Saverin, who got massive shit for moving to Argentina to avoid taxes to live with his family. Everybody hates the fuck out of that guy now. In addition, there are ways to close tax loopholes so they can not get away with moving money overseas, our system is just so fucked right now that these tax regulations do not exist or have existing loopholes that the gov't refuses to close. Liz Warren literally just proposed a new bill that prevents billionaires from moving their money overseas to avoid taxes. If you think taxing billionaires would lead to the fall of the US economy, you're delusional. The fact that we're NOT taxing billionaires appropriately has already led to the death of the middle class and massive MASSIVE wealth inequality. Even IF billionaires somehow moved their wealth overseas, the US would be far better without them taking advantage of workers and any vacuum their business leaves in it's wake would get filled by new innovative industry that we desperately need, not just billionaires and millionaires hoarding their wealth and doing stock buy-backs. We need REAL economic growth in this country, something that's been lacking since the 1980s and has led to a constant boom-bust cycle where only the wealthy ever come out on top.
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