• CheesyFox
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    2 days ago

    Everybody wants universal basic income. Nobody wants to answer where to get the money from.

    • TootTootComingThru@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      No, we’ve already answered this but barely literate dense dipshits like to pretend otherwise.

      Tax the shit out of very wealthy individuals and companies and use that incredible wealth to provide basic safety nets and programs for everyone. The most quality of life improvements generation over generation and massive public infrastructure projects we did here in the US was when we taxed wealth aggressively and used that money to invest in people.

      The major reason for why everything is getting shittier in the US is because we’re catering to billionaire parasites and their companies and not to the other 99.9% of people. You may disagree but that is what it is.

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        One issue with that: the rich tend to avoid being citizens of countries with progressive taxing in tact.

        Also, surprise-surprise, the solution presented is far from being universal. Not every country’s name starts with “United” and ends with “States of America”.

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          11 hours ago

          i dont see the problem. I would rather my money circulating in the economy, instead of ending up in some tax haven.

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          Ooh-Kay? There are ways to end tax loopholes and it’s not difficult to not impossible to find out if someone spends a significant amount of their time in a country or has property there nor is this a uniquely American parasite problem. So why not unify, globally?

          These rats always use the threat of “aww shucks I’m gonna take my money elsewhere if you tax me a dollar more” and the reality is that a) they already fucking do in every legal capacity and they spend A LOT of their money of their mental bandwidth on making sure they influence politicians and slackjaws into thinking they’re just gonna pick up their ball and take it elsewhere and b) they still like to live, and therefore spend a ton of time in, good cool places to live that have fun things to do and good food and culture and shit!

          I’ve heard this shit before here in Massachusetts: tax the wealthy even a hair more and they’re all gonna move to Texas and all those jobs are gonna go away! We poors can’t do anything by ourselves and the world is gonna fall apart without our benevolent billionaire barasites!

          Well it’s been more that a couple years now and all that extra money is used to fund schools and shit and almost none of these people actually moved away because they also get to enjoy the benefits of living in a non shithole state and our economy is doing better than most even right now!

          There’s many such cases. Don’t let the wealthy lie to you and dupe you into thinking they’re paying enough. And don’t let them or anybody confuse you into conflating billionaires with millionaires.