R&E Political Discussion 2025: How does the Utopian left propose to eliminate billionaires without having to use tyranny?

How does the Utopian left propose to eliminate billionaires without having to use tyranny? - Stoogie Enturbulator August 6, 2025, 7:56 am

Raise their taxes, obviously. - cheezit August 6, 2025, 8:43 am
- I like the benefits of free enterprise. - GOG August 6, 2025, 10:18 am
  - How does it help you? - cheezit August 6, 2025, 11:36 am
- Why do you defend Marxism? - Cheap Seats Shaman *= August 6, 2025, 9:40 am
  - Name a post in which I have done so, Nazi. - cheezit August 6, 2025, 11:37 am
    - How many examples do you desire? - Cheap Seats Shaman *= August 6, 2025, 12:02 pm
      - Wrong. - cheezit August 6, 2025, 12:32 pm
I don't want to eliminate billionaires, but maybe we should raise their taxes. - Ken C August 6, 2025, 8:35 am
- As we once did...and those were more prosperous times for all but a few. - 7:77 August 6, 2025, 9:49 am
  - The landscape changed. Amazon, Walmart, etc. - GOG August 6, 2025, 10:24 am
- Well, your opinion is duly noted, but… - Arwen August 6, 2025, 8:49 am
  - Some observations: - 7:77 August 6, 2025, 12:52 pm
  - Can yacht builders switch to making affordable homes instead? - Ken C August 6, 2025, 9:17 am
    - Sure they can. - Arwen August 6, 2025, 9:39 am
      - We can tax some industries while subsidizing other industries. - Ken C August 6, 2025, 9:50 am
        
        You may regret giving the GOVT the power to penalize one group (tax) to the benefit of another. - Stoogie Enturbulator August 6, 2025, 9:56 am
        
        Government already has the power to tax. - cheezit August 6, 2025, 11:41 am
        
        No one posted the government didn't have the power to tax. - Stoogie Disrupter August 6, 2025, 12:08 pm
        
        But you've already suggested - cheezit August 6, 2025, 12:34 pm
        
        If said tax is to get even with people who are successful - Stoogie Enturbulator August 6, 2025, 12:56 pm
        
        Then why did you lie by posting it? - cheezit August 6, 2025, 1:18 pm
        
        Your own posts would indicate otherwise. - Stoogie Disrupter August 6, 2025, 2:35 pm
        
        Name one, queer. - cheezit August 6, 2025, 2:40 pm
        
        Yes we can take decisions away from the millions who make the market… - Arwen August 6, 2025, 9:55 am
    - Now THERE'S a good question. - cheezit August 6, 2025, 9:26 am
  - Fatuous argument. - cheezit August 6, 2025, 8:51 am
    - Great description of your argument, greenman. - Arwen August 6, 2025, 9:00 am
      - Are you nine years old? - cheezit August 6, 2025, 9:04 am
        
        More ad hominem attacks. What a surprise. - Arwen August 6, 2025, 9:11 am
        
        You still don't know what that means, I see. - cheezit August 6, 2025, 9:14 am
        
        I schooled you on this yesterday. Do you need a refresher? - Arwen August 6, 2025, 9:17 am
        
        Do you have a stalker? - GOG August 6, 2025, 10:26 am
        
        Heck no. - Arwen August 6, 2025, 10:59 am
        
        NTR - cheezit August 6, 2025, 9:18 am
- How much wealth should an American be allowed to have, and in what form? - CE0802 August 6, 2025, 8:45 am
  - God, may we always have a yacht industry! - cheezit August 6, 2025, 8:56 am
    - I think it was Ragan maybe Clinton that taxed the - Fudd August 6, 2025, 1:11 pm
    - You think your post refuted the fact that increasing the tax on yachts... - CE0802 August 6, 2025, 9:09 am
      - Strawman as usual. - cheezit August 6, 2025, 9:12 am
        
        Your typical response when faced with reality. So tiresome. - GOG August 6, 2025, 10:37 am
        
        I'd only you had a refutation - cheezit August 6, 2025, 11:40 am
    - That was just an example, of course. - CE0802 August 6, 2025, 8:58 am
      - And I refuted it. - cheezit August 6, 2025, 9:05 am

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