tax the rich

I think it's perfectly fine for a religious organization to be tax exempt provided they provide the same level of service as other non-profit orgs. I also think we desperately need to overhaul the requirements and auditing practices of organizations claim to be non-profits.

I don't think a religious organization on its face deserves to be tax exempt.

I think if the churches wish to remain tax exempt then they need to not get involved in politics. No donation to any party, and no rallying for any politician on any level.

That's exactly how they win, by people going "well, it's already bad, not worth doing anything to make it better."

Taxes won't work now anyway. A redistribution of wealth is required.

The issue I have with this sentiment is that some percentage of the rich made active pursuits to deny our freedoms and destroy democracy; while others were…just quiet and uninvolved in politics.

What’s more, much as it makes sense to change our hyper-capitalistic society, this is the society we’re working within in order to make change. Even printing a poster that explains why capitalism is bad costs money. By that token, we will likely need some support from some wealthy people to make change. And yes, that support exists to some degree, and no, we don’t literally need to have “more money” than the opposition.

So maybe you were just shortening sentiments for the sake of a snarky post, which is fine. We can pursue better tax rates for wealthier people, while also pursuing criminal investigations and metaphorical guillotines for the Heritage Foundation. Literally seize all their money. If I’m to make one point though, you don’t want those quiet wealthy people to feel that the Heritage Foundation are their only friends.

I know, man. There’s lots of people I dream about taking a crowbar to. But when I’m done with the violent rhetoric in my head, I think of the most practical actions.

I would say that fixing the taxes that the rich are (not) paying, would be more.... Prevention for the future.

Heads in baskets is more, paying for the sins of the past.

inverted totalitarianism

though it could also just be called good old oligarchy with a thin veneer of democracy

Funny that trump is trying to get rid of regulation, oversight, and accountability.

TAX WEALTH, NOT WORK

You can take this a step further and ask why we have this aggregation of wealth at all. Private wealth consolidation is a form of malinvestment resulting from a handful of individuals who are told they can effectively loot the economy unchecked.

Taxation "solves" the problem by clawing back some of that malinvestment. But if you recognize it as malinvestment from the outset, you can see arguments against having these private aggregators of wealth at all.

Instead of taxes, why not simply impose a maximum income? In baseball, you'd call it a salary cap.

You can index the values to a multiple of the median salary instead of a fixed number.

Uh I don't thing deciliter is the unit you want lol

And some guy says “hey man, you need to give back like 20% of that. And that’s kinda lowkey generous tbh.” And their response is literally like “no.”

Beyond every great fortune is a great crime.

Why would you think the modern day Robber Barons could be swayed by social need? If they cared about social need, they wouldn't be billionaires to begin with.

To continue to industrially rape the planet? To the global south, indigeneous peoples, and all natural peoples, the results of capitalism or Marxist socialism looks exactly the same - we'll all be industrialized science addicts under capitalism or socialism, and all other non-European cultures must commit cultural suicide to become a "proletariat" worker of some factory. Your so-called "leftist revolution" isn't a revolution, it's merely a continuation of the European mindset that considers the natural world and natural peoples an acceptable sacrifice.

Would you like to know more? Check this out to gain some non-white eurocentric perspective because I got news for you - white supremasist eurocentric industrialization is not the dominant ideology. Did you think the peoples living in South American jungles for thousands of years need some 19th century European to teach them "complex" philosophy of sharing?

"But there is a peculiar behavior among most Caucasians. As soon as I become critical of Europe and its impact on other cultures, they become defensive. They begin to defend themselves. But I am not attacking them personally; I’m attacking Europe. In personalizing my observations on Europe they are personalizing European culture, identifying themselves with it. By defending themselves in this context, they are ultimately defending the death culture. This is a confusion which must be overcome, and it must be overcome in a hurry. None of us has energy to waste in such false struggles.

Caucasians have a more positive vision to offer humanity than European culture. I believe this. But in order to attain this vision it is necessary for Caucasians to step outside European culture — alongside the rest of humanity — to see Europe for what it is and what it does. "