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3. A simple 0.25% financial transaction tax and taxing ALL income equally.

Fri Mar 27, 2020, 01:58 AM

Mar 2020

It burns my bacon that money some scrub a floor to earn gets taxed at a higher rate than money someone stuck in a bank and got interest on.

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COVID-19 Is The Best Argument Yet For a Wealth Tax [View all] BeckyDem Mar 2020 OP

Excellent article. Nt spooky3 Mar 2020 #1

Rec lunasun Mar 2020 #2

A simple 0.25% financial transaction tax and taxing ALL income equally. mostlyalurker Mar 2020 #3

And for a Universal Basic Income, both for humanitarian reasons Ghost Dog Mar 2020 #4