• TommySoda@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    At this point in time I’m pretty sure you would win in a landslide if you ran on taxing billionaires. Is being greedy a requirement to be a politician in the US?

    • I_Jedi@lemmy.today
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      2 days ago

      If you’re not greedy, the billionaires won’t fund your campaign. Then you lose.

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        21 hours ago

        Well, added context is billionaires won’t fund your campaign causing your public relations to drop. Then you lose.

        We shouldn’t just scapegoat the rich for something that tens of millions of people vote for while tens of millions more don’t vote at all.

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          12 hours ago

          Irrelevant context. As a great sage once said

          If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice

          This is a binary system one OR the other will win. There is no other outcome. You either push to influence it in a better or worse direction you dont get to sit it out. The result WILL effect you.

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            8 hours ago

            It is relevant and important context because we solve this problem by convincing the millions of people, not the rich.

            A wise famous playwrite once said:

            "Putting the cart before the horse ".