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In reply to the discussion: Taxes on the wealthy, even "socialism". These are arguments we can and will win. [View all]SWBTATTReg
(24,251 posts)millionaires and billionaires who are so intent on hanging onto their obviously excessive wealth. I call it predatory capitalism and this needs to be taken down and replaced with a better distributive system of checks and balances, e.g., a better tax code. It is no longer socialism to address the ever more apparent abuse of capitalism in order to gain even more dollars etc. (fake books, dubious accounting games, shell companies, LLCs, oversea tax shelters, etc.). Instead of socialism in order to address these serious abuses of capitalism, it's our survival...period.
Rampant capitalism has run roughshod over almost the vast majority of resources on earth, and labor is seemingly used at lowest cost and then thrown away without a thought. Time to turn on our survival mode instincts, ignore the garbage and lies being spewed out by rump and his cronies, who obviously only care about wealth the preservation of this wealth. The welfare of others seem to be a distinct memory to them. What they don't realize, is that it takes a village (world) to raise a child today. The world is so interconnected in so many ways yet from what you would gather from the news (all types of media, again mostly owned by billionaires and millionaires), doom and horror, etc.!
It's time to take back our destinies. No one else will.