Comments by "" (@thehumanity0) on "Bernie's Wealth Tax, Explained!" video.

@LK56835 It's so funny when people call taxes "stealing", as if taxes aren't a part of a civilized society and aren't required for a nation to function. What's wrong with your analysis is that it's not geared in reality. The rich always dodge taxes, it's been that way ever since currency went into circulation hundreds of years ago. A progressive tax system not only ensures that the rich pay more due to earning far more, but it also accounts for the massive amounts of taxes that they will inevitably dodge with loopholes and hiding their money away in tax havens. I find it pretty sad and pathetic that poor conservatives and libertarians defend the ultra wealthy to their last breathe while they are actively doing all they can to STEAL from America, money the American taxpayers will have to subsidize as a result, with some people and corporations paying 0% in taxes. These are the people you're defending, the ones essentially STEALING from YOU by not paying their fair share. While you pay your income tax like a good law abiding citizen, you shout "WOE IS ME" for poor Jeff Bezos who earns more money than anyone else in the world x10000 and still pays a lower percentage than his secretary. Well done, you're officially cucked by the billionaire class who spit on you on a daily basis by making you subsidize the millions upon billions they dodge in taxes.
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@bluesrockfan36 "no real solutions"? Sure, and giving out cash to everyone and having a raffle in the primary is not a "dog whistle" to anyone at all either. Saying on conservative networking that your basic income will 'cut social programs' is definitely not a "dog whistle" to conservatives and libertarians as well. The difference between you and us is that we're not sitting at the edge of our seats waiting for our federal allowance of 1,000 bucks (talk about being placated), we realize that a world where 3 people own more wealth than the bottom half of the country is unsustainable and only becomes worse year after year. Taxing the wealthy is the only way to reduce the colossal wealth gap and income inequality, while you're claiming a small tax on goods, comparable to a sales tax, that is also regressive by definition, will somehow be the "REAL solution" to tackling the massive amount of accumulated wealth of the billionaire class. There is absolutely no basis to show that a VAT tax will even put a dent in wealth inequality and many analysts have even estimated that it could potentially benefit the wealthy more than the poor while even some others out there have made the case it would have unpredictable outcomes and end up hurting the poor in the long-term more than helping them. We KNOW what the real solutions are for wealth inequality, you keep trying to do mental gymnastics on why a glorified sales tax will apparently fix the wealth gap, meanwhile you have studies coming out that show that this wealth tax will continually decrease the number of billionaires by more and more annually, however, we already know you yang supporters think billionaires 'deserve' their money and big tech should never be broken up even though they're too big to fail, filtering the political discussion, and constantly selling our data to the FBI, NSA and CIA. Also, apparently the thought of vast deregulation doesn't bother you considering your team wants to put a sunset provision on all regulations even Wall Street regulations, that proposal is insanity.
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@ihl0700677525 "Why is it unsustainable" for 3 people to own more wealth than half the country? Why is it unsustainable for 8 people to own more wealth than 3.5 billion people? (worldwide). This argument is always so ridiculous. Where exactly do you draw the line?? Is it okay for Jeff Bezos, 1 guy, to own more wealth than 75% of the population? How about 100% of the population? What if Jeff Bezos, the kleptomaniac, owned ALL the wealth on the planet and nobody else owned anything in the world? So I ask you again, WHERE do you DRAW the line?? This is the problem with you anarcho-Capitalists and promoting a world entirely run on pure Greed, you're unwittingly in favor of an economy that leads to a Maggie's farm dystopian future on steroids. You should go read the famous essay called "Manna" by Marshall Brain, which plays out a scenario where inequality is never addressed and eventually a few people own everything while the 99.99% of the population own nothing and are essentially slaves. The eventual cure is a resource-based economy, an idea that is basically the exact opposite to your 1 person owning all the wealth "Greed is Good" ideology. We're never going to be able to have a reasonable conversation about a wealth tax until you realize how ridiculous it is that you're okay with 1 guy (or a handful of people) being able to essentially buy the entire world and own everything while everyone else is forced to live in poverty and squalor.
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@ihl0700677525 I don't care what your silly principles are. The idea of anarcho-Capitalism is one of the most absurd ideologies you can find across the political spectrum. Just a post or 2 ago you were saying Jeff Bezos should have no limitations and there should be no line from him owning ALL the wealth in the world. That way we can get to a future in 2050 where Space King Bezos launches his Amazon fleet of Prime citizens as he personally picks and chooses who will join him in a gilded space age while Earth collapses due to decades of inaction of those with power and money. It's very convenient that your "principles" line up with defending the .01% who this wealth tax will effect. It doesn't matter that the money would go towards helping millions of people who are struggling, what's MOST important is that we don't tax any wealth, stocks, or mansion artwork of billionaires and we stay in a backwards tax bracket system where, on paper, billionaires pay the same percentage as an engineer, but realistically pay less than a waitress or secretary once they successfully play the system for all its worth. Listen, we're just not gonna agree, I think the core of your beliefs are incredibly backwards and Draconian towards the 99.9% of the population. We're not gonna agree on any form of taxation while you seriously believe Jeff Bezos or other billionaires should rightfully have the ability to own all the wealth in the world while everyone else lives as financial slaves in a fully automated economy.
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@ihl0700677525 I never said you were "against taxation", I said we're never going to agree on the rational form of taxation while you seriously believe it's perfectly fine for Jeff Bezos to own all the wealth. You can put a sales tax or VAT tax on his company goods all you want, but until you start taxing him in an effective way that limits his ability to amass the majority of the world's wealth, you're not going to even put a dent in the rampant levels of wealth inequality we have today, but you've already made perfectly clear that you're okay with that inequality. Also, you're logic is just so very broken "treat all citizens exactly the same regardless of wealth", are you serious? So essentially you're against a progressive tax system of any kind or any tax bracket system whatsoever? Jesus man, thank christ the vast majority of people don't agree with you and a wealth tax has nearly 70% approval among the American people. I would go out on a limb and guess that 95-97% of Americans believe a tax bracket system is absolutely necessary in a civilized Capitalist country. It might not be pure anarcho-Capitalism, but that's about as close as you can get without disavowing all taxation period.
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