Daniel Keys MoranJul 8, 2025

A guy who I've known many decades said that my embrace of the far left had lowered his opinion of me a lot.

We were talking about wealth taxes, qua my earlier post about 90% tax rates. But not just income taxes, estate taxes, real estate taxes, generally speaking, asset taxes.

The billionaire class has to cease to exist. What the bootlickers defending them seem to not understand, is that this is the *nice* way to make that happen.

Show threadDavid Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Jul 8, 2025
@fatsam I think I’m quite far into centre-right to right on this. I think we should have wealth taxes that are aimed at ensuring no one has a net worth over about $100m. I think it’s probably a better plan than the far left alternative, which involves guillotines.
Show threadklarnebel
@david_chisnall @fatsam the French Revolution was not at all a far-left „Solution“ to the problem of „the rich“. In its first phase, the wealthy citizens fought for a constitutional monarchy and their civil rights.
When that was threatened by internal and external counter-revolutionary powers, it lead to a „radical“ democratic republic (the one with the guillotines) and when that failed, a rule of the upper middle and upper class was established, which fought 1/2
Jul 8, 2025 at 6:10pmWeb