Did you know that "eat the #rich" was first a #philosophy concept?
Limitarianism is fundamentally the study of when it might be #ethical to put limitations on citizens in a governed society. It's a case-based theory, not a political system.
It asks questions like: is #wealth ever individual? What is the wealth limit?
& questions it isn't positing, like: If no one is ultra-rich, should no one be #poor? Is limitarianism virtue #ethics or justifiable without perfectionist views?
Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck's uncle, is known by many different names: Gil, Balthazar, Dagobert, Joakim, Robert, etc. What do you think about translating character names?
I find this utterly baffling. You're a non-dom and you're complaining that removing that status will mean you have to pay so much tax that you'll leave. Right, well...
From what I've seen, the evidence that the super-rich actually do leave when taxes go up isn't there. So you might leave, but most of your fellows will pay more.
If you aren't paying your tax at the moment, then your argument that you have value to the country is essentially trickle-down economics. You have money, therefore you will spend it or give it to others. Trickle down has been shown to be bullshit.
So. You will leave and take your very small contribution with you. Fine. Most of your friends won't, they will compensate for the loss of your (to you) pittance. If you don't want to pay your share like everyone else, then you are not a loss to this country when you leave. Piss off and don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Billionaires don’t like Ottawa’s capital gains tax hike, but you should: It’s an overdue step toward making our tax system fairer
“We don’t think it’s fair that a teacher or electrician pays taxes on 100% of their income while a multimillionaire pays taxes on only 50%,” said Trudeau
I find the belief that #leftists are mad at the #rich and powerful because of envy is frankly insulting. We don't think anyone should have that much money or power because it turns them into a twisted horrible human being and at some point they had to exploit others or the environment to get that money. If no one has that much money, all of us have a little more. If no one has that much power, ALL of us are a little more power to make our world better.
@anubis2814 Interestingly this isn’t necessarily what the rich think. But this is is what the rich want the majority of the voting poor to think. And so far they succeeded on a large scale.
@mythologyandhistory They were making purple dyes out of crushed snail shells since about 1200 BC. It was so labour-intensive that it was really expensive, so purple was a status symbol for the wealthy.
Why America won’t tax the #rich | Think
Krys Boyd speaks with Michael J. Graetz, professor emeritus at Columbia Law School and Yale Law School on the history of how the modern anti-tax movement has embedded itself with conservative movement, including how it aligned w the Christian evangelical movement. #Taxes#politics#billionaires
Did you know that the 1st mass poisoning was fabricated?
In 331 BC, many #rich men had died & ~200 #Roman women were put on trial.
A slave revealed the truth: the rich ladies were poisoners.
The accused were asked to drink their #poison & promptly died. The officials declared them insane.
The #problem is that this doesn’t make sense.
The women had no political agenda, all wealthy men had food tasters & the accused were willing to drink their potions.
They did not, some even lived. As for the poisons, they were simple botanical concoctions, definitely containing hemlock.
One scholar believes that they actually made medicine for an unknown disease afflicting the affluent - Livy tells us that they claimed that their potions were "wholesome" to the court.
But Livy wrote about it 300 years after the fact & thought it a tall tale 🤔