• SCB@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Yes it literally is, sometimes.

    If I give sales tax breaks on healthy food, guess who that ultimately also helps?

    If I subsidize apartments so people can afford a homes guess who that ultimately also helps?

    If I just straight up hand poor people money, guess who that ultimately helps?

    People become billionaires because they run large companies. Large companies make things people want.

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      10 months ago

      Yes, sometimes it does but that doesn’t make them the same thing. You are quite dense. My literal point is that you took a comment arguing about not wanting to line Musk’s pockets with taxpayer money for Starlink as being republican in nature. Do you like him or something? I really don’t get why you are trying so hard here.

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          10 months ago

          Sorry, meant Bezos and Kuiper. Hard to get sleep on international flights. Where are they saying they don’t support subsidizing satellite internet entirely? Seems more like a criticism of billionaires wanting the government’s money instead of just doing it themselves or us funding a different company.

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            10 months ago

            That’s what this comment thread is about. Take a nap and reread it.

            Seems more like a criticism of billionaires

            If you don’t like billionaires, tax them.

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                10 months ago

                Capital gains, luxury sales taxes, taxes on property and holdings, those are all pretty basic and don’t even require new taxes, just rate changes.

                Then there’s new taxes, things like progressive taxes based on value of unrealized gains (currently before SCOTUS), which could include stock ownership over X amount of stock, etc.

                There are more ways to tax people than can be listed, realistically.