I just love the whole idea that making billionaires pay taxes is the "radical far left".

[geepawhill@mastodon.social]

MAKING THEM PAY TAXES.

*Rampant* communism.

I think to myself of the great communists of all time, like, mmmmm, Eisenhower.

[gurre@mastodon.nu]

@GeePawHill
But if you tax the billionaires no-one will want to be rich, so everyone will just quit their jobs!?!

[geepawhill@mastodon.social]

Sweetpea, the radical far left position does not involve taxes.

[enbypirate@lgbtqia.space]

@GeePawHill meanwhile the actual far left is thinking about recipes for the time when we eat the rich

[geepawhill@mastodon.social]

@enbypirate A decade or so ago, the internet character called NotAWolf said, "You'll never be a billionaire. But it's not too late to find out what one tastes like."

[billclawson@sfba.social]

@GeePawHill billionaires should be all about paying taxes, being exemplary citizens, and big fans of noblesse oblige, because it beats the heck out of being torn apart by an angry mob.

[revrhizicnatterjacks@discordian.social]

@GeePawHill the country was founded by a bunch of rich slaveowners that didn't want to pay their taxes, so it's quite patriotic, I guess.

[unicorn@lgbtqia.space]

@enbypirate @GeePawHill mmmm, billionaire bacon!

[geepawhill@mastodon.social]

@RevRhizicNatterjacks I think the story is more complicated than that, myself.

[rosactrl@social.vivaldi.net]

@GeePawHill to be fair progressive taxation is one of the points in The communist manifesto, which says a lot of how radical Marx was

[mark@tacobelllabs.net]

@GeePawHill @enbypirate I think the biggest problem with America is that a lot of people believe they can be; they eat up the rags to riches Elon Musk story and think, if they come for him they can come for me as well

[garden_squire@mastodon.social]

@GeePawHill Any time I hear someone use the term "radical left", I just know they're gonna make some outlandish claims.