If the wealth tax had been in place a century ago, we would have had more anti-semitism from Henry..

[demmiblue]

Forcing the wealthy to spend could boomerang. If the wealth tax had been in place a century ago, we would have had more anti-semitism from Henry Ford and a smaller Ford Foundation today.

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[Skinner]

1. So wait.

His argument is that we shouldn't pass a wealth tax because it might upset anti-Semites?

[unblock]

3. Yeah I don't get the logic at all. Wealth tax bad today because dead guy would have blamed the Jews?

[Voltaire2]

4. that plus instead of a huge private foundation doing whatever it wants

we would have, horrors, more money in the public treasury to do what we as a people want.

[TheFarseer]

2. Ok

I understand a smaller Ford Foundation even though I think that’s a s#it argument. I don’t understand how that makes him more anti-Semitic.