Re: Montana: "Let's make stupidity mandatory!"

On 1/16/2025 9:16 AM, AMuzi wrote:

On 1/15/2025 8:28 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 1/15/2025 6:43 PM, AMuzi wrote:
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Taxing the wealthy and super-wealthy means they may have to put off buying their hundredth bottle of Chateau Lafite Rothschild (whose taste they probably can't reliably distinguish anyway). Taxing the poorer people means they have to put off buying a can of soup.
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So let's emulate the tax structures of prosperous countries with far, far less income disparity. I believe those policies contribute to much better social services, much lower crime and unrest, better paved roads, free medical care, etc.
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 Thanks for making that clear; your worldview about both morality and values. Which are way out there.

They may seem that way to right wing Americans. They don't seem that way to the citizens of many of the countries in this list:
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/rankings/income-equality
As with other issues, I see a tendency to say "That can't possibly work!!!" while ignoring huge portions of the globe where it does work, and works far better than our current situation.
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- Frank Krygowski