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.

@fatsam the not nice way was guillotines last time around

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we can do it again if they like

@darwinwoodka I prefer the friendly option where everyone pays their fair share. But right now the ball is totally in the court of the multi-billionairs. They can choose their preferred method.
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