Pretty disheartening poll: wide majority of even most republicans support wealth taxes

Thank God for the Constitution

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What is going on?

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Common sense.

This surprises you?

Majority of republicans support a heavy policy stage, support patriot act, are way more "socially conservative than fiscally conservative"

This doesn't surprise me at all.

I wouldn't be surprised if the so called republicans support single payer system that are all on Medicare/Medicaid.

Fiscal conservativism is dead.

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This is immature envy

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No it isn't. It's a natural consequence of this.



I don't know that a wealth tax would actually do very much to solve this problem, since there are a ton of confounding factors at play in this phenomenon. I'm pretty sure it would just be an excuse to squeeze people not responsible for this trend while conveniently missing the ones who are responsible for it, and thus make things worse.

But you can't mass import a new workforce, move production overseas, and demand more hours out of people already being squeezed from every which direction while not meaningfully compensating them better, and expect nothing to happen. These people are getting royally screwed, have been for decades, and are latching on to the idea that resonates best (even if it's a bad idea).

This "frick you got mine" mentality is garbage and the chief reason this country is unraveling at the seams. And I say this as somebody who has zero faith in the ability of government to do anything but make this worse (and thus one of the people opposed to a wealth tax as proposed).

Disgusting

I don't know what specific numbers that they would consider, but I'm for this to an extent.

There are certain amounts of wealth that cannot be obtained without eating off the system, other people, etc.

I did a cash deal two weeks ago that I would have had to pay about $30,000 on if I was forced to do the whole go to the bank for the money thing.

Do you honestly think that these 8, 9, and 10 figure people are not fricking the shite out of the system?

I'm not necessarily a fan of the government getting the money, but I'm not a fan of extremely wealthy people keeping the portions that they have stolen either.

The last thing we need is another tax. Besides the fact that it is straight up theft and punitive in nature, all it does is enable Washington’s spending problem.

Those people have lots money
These people no have money
Give people with no money other peoples money to make things gooder.

U can believe polls if you want to

It’s a percentage thang bruh....