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In reply to the discussion: If the top 80% had to give up all assets/ownership to be equal to bottom20%,would you? [View all]Silent3
(15,909 posts)I suppose there are a radical few who really, literally want to confiscate all that the 1% have and spread it around to everyone else, but the more typical liberal position (especially if you're describing American liberals in general, not just the self-selecting DU crowd) is to simply tax the rich as a higher, more progressive tax rate, and to stop cutting the rich so many political sweetheart deals which amplify their ability to obtain and retain more and more of the wealth.
Give us universal healthcare, decent housing, adequate healthy food, access to good education, secure retirement, a generally strong social and financial safety net, then additionally reduce (I'm too realistic to suggest "eliminate"
the outsize power of money in politics, and I'd be pretty happy with where that would put us as a society, even if some people remain vastly wealthy compared to everyone else.