• moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com
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    8 hours ago

    we must enact a 5% wealth tax on billionaires

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    Elon Musk and his billionaire friends have poured a record-breaking $2 billion into the recent election. That is absurd.

    The American people want Congress to overturn Citizens United, abolish super PACs, and establish public funding of elections

    That’s actually a really good idea.

    Billionaires like Musk should be forced to fund elections, but the funding should go to a general fund that’s available to all candidates who are not millionaires

    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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      5 hours ago

      but the funding should go to a general fund that’s available to all candidates who are not millionaires

      Exactly.

      Jimmy Savile and Margaret Thatcher perfectly demonstrated why you shouldn’t rely on the wealthy funding things for charity. It gives them tons of influnce over what they’re funding compared to having the government tax the rich and direct the money where it needs to go.

      Those 2 used that strategy to tear apart British social services and literally led to the rape of thousands of people