@Vaasman said:
@Stevo_the_gamer said:
Comrade!
Any limit seems rather arbitrary. I mean you and I can work our asses off and yet there's still folks out there making 10s of thousands every month selling used garments and such... the issue of "fairness" doesn't ever truly ring a bell to me.
edit: on second approach, if I could make 10s of thousands selling my used garments... not saying I would, but there would be a consideration.
If the top 1% was able to be taxed out of all the wealth they have in speculative markets, real estate, and other tax dodgy shit, they would be able to provide trillions in revenue instantly without a single change to their current income or lifestyle.
If the bottom 99% was taxed for that same amount there would be mass panic and economic crash, as everyone went into horrible crippling debt and then burn down all the billionaire doomsday mansions.
That doesn't sound like "any limit seems rather arbitrary" to me.
At a certain point it just doesn't matter how wealthy you get, you won't even really notice increasing wealth anymore, and the concept of how much money you actually have falls apart.
Put another way, if you are trying to build a moat of fire around a mansion to keep out the poors, it's not arbitrary anymore, you should be taxed into oblivion.
Ah yes, the whole take from the rich to give to the poor! A classic, comrade! Why only the top 1%? Why not the top 1.23%? Or perhaps the top .123%? Why only unrealized gains? Why not the savings too? In the end, it's always the have-nots weeping in envy over those who have.
But mom it's not fair! Meanwhile, in the two apartments I've hit in a week, I've dealt with 6 adults ranging from 24 to 57 that do not work and spend their days living off the safety nets of the government while their roommate sexually abused children. Six adults. None of them work and each collect their monthly stipends paid for by my fellow comrade jangles and I.
That moat is hilarious. I had a similar conversation with my wife actually, you wouldn't immediately know if I had come into a large sum of money, but there would be signs.
"Hey honey, I parked my new gun in the garage."
"You parked what?"
A moat of fire seems impractical though. First of all, you're lighting a beacon for the region to see... BEACONS ARE LIT. GONDOR CALLS FOR AID.
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