Taxes exist to fund the government which exists to solve collective action problems. I despise your attitude that taxes are a tool to punish people you don't like. I find it to be morally repugnant and I will always side with the billionaires defending themselves against people like you no matter often you repeat the word "bootlicker."
replyNah billionaires need to be punished, they have raped the Earth for profit and caused mass misery/death upon her people. In fact a good way for the US to rebuild credibility is to probably send a few billionaires to the Hague and have them tried for crimes against humanity in the ICJ.
replyLots of billionaires should probably be at the hague. But we should be glad if people can become billionaires because they are generating that much value of both parties being better off, without imposing externalities on others. Yvonne Chouinard came close to this ideal, I think.
replyIf someone can genuinely generate billions in value, not just by imposing externalities on others that they then reallocate to themselves, I will be damn glad that they exist and be damn glad that the hope of getting richer keeps them at it.
Wait, are you suggesting we _shouldn't_ treat billionaires as a collective action problem to be dealt with via policy? So you're suggesting what, individual violence?
reply> Taxes exist to fund the government which exists to solve collective action problems.
replyWealth inequality, billionaires trying to skew politics… kind of a problem that needs collective action.
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