return2ozma@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 4 days agoSan Francisco Democrats break with their party over the billionaire tax—and reveal how deeply Prop 40 has split the leftfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square18linkfedilinkarrow-up187
arrow-up187external-linkSan Francisco Democrats break with their party over the billionaire tax—and reveal how deeply Prop 40 has split the leftfortune.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 4 days agomessage-square18linkfedilink
minus-squareEquinox1289@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up16·4 days agoWhat if you don’t want to tax them, but seize their assets to convert all their businesses into worker coöps?
minus-squarephutatorius@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoThat’d be even better. But better incremental progress than none at all. And revolutions have a high failure rate.
minus-squaretacosanonymous@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·4 days agoThat’s just a really big tax, though.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoIt’s only a tax if the government siezes it. If you and I go do it, it’s called “theft.”
minus-squarezbyte64@awful.systemslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoThe left is rooted in mass politics, not individual heroics.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoIf all of us do it they call it “looting.”
minus-squarephutatorius@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoAnd if we care what they call it, we’ll never do anything.
What if you don’t want to tax them, but seize their assets to convert all their businesses into worker coöps?
That’d be even better. But better incremental progress than none at all. And revolutions have a high failure rate.
That’s just a really big tax, though.
It’s only a tax if the government siezes it.
If you and I go do it, it’s called “theft.”
The left is rooted in mass politics, not individual heroics.
If all of us do it they call it “looting.”
And if we care what they call it, we’ll never do anything.