• quindraco@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Once again, the problem is that the banks aren’t being taxed. The reason the billionaires don’t pay taxes is that they buy everything with money they borrow from the banks.

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        8 months ago

        The problem is more that one person can control billions in assets, particularly when the staff that generates the revenue that gives these assets value are in poverty.

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    8 months ago

    for the first time

    Nobody ask about the long-term capital gains rate going back to Ronald Reagan’s '83 reform.