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Daniel Keys Moran Jul 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.

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David 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.

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klarnebel Jul 8, 2025

@david_chisnall @fatsam Both against movements for social equality and movements to bring back the monarchy.
I fail to see the far left in power here.

The killing was done by what we would now call upper class guys who wanted to really wipe the floor with the aristocracy because they were fed up with only having money but very little power.

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Daniel Keys Moran Jul 8, 2025

@klarnebel @david_chisnall is that a comment about the terror? No, I wouldn't recommend that as any approach to plan on. Look what happened to Robespierre, his brother, and his friends.

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klarnebel

@fatsam @david_chisnall I don’t say that anyone should do anything like that. I don’t want that. I just want to disprove myth that the French Revolution was a far-left one.