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thomas piketty: america in new gilded age
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Date: April 26th, 2014 10:46 AM Author: avocado glittery home wealth is inherited, not made. no american dream. we NEED higher taxes to address these issues (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2552534&forum_id=2#25450821) |
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Date: April 26th, 2014 12:04 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle factory reset button theatre He's actually not arguing for higher taxes. He's arguing for different taxes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2552534&forum_id=2#25451052) |
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Date: April 26th, 2014 12:05 PM Author: Startled Stage Those aren't mutually exclusive categories. There is no question that he would support raising tax rates in America AND taxing the wealth of our 1%. |
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Date: April 26th, 2014 12:07 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle factory reset button theatre You're like a child who wanders into a movie theater and demands to explain to everyone what is happening.
Watch this scene and you are the guy talking and Marshall McLuhan is Thomas Piketty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpIYz8tfGjY |
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Date: April 26th, 2014 12:08 PM Author: Startled Stage Your point was incorrect bro, do you honestly think Piketty would say that we shouldn't increase our income tax? Or that the capital gains tax is a bad idea? You're retarded. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2552534&forum_id=2#25451070) |
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Date: April 26th, 2014 12:16 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle factory reset button theatre He would radically alter it so it would be a tax cut for 95 percent of people and the top five percent or so would get hosed. But the real engine of his proposal is the tax on assets.
So yes, he supports raising tax rates on the one percent, but it's a net benefit to average workers. |
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Date: April 26th, 2014 12:16 PM Author: Startled Stage But you agree that there would be higher taxes on a not insignificant number of people, yes? Good.
Upper middle class xo posters aren't average workers. |
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Date: April 26th, 2014 12:18 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle factory reset button theatre I know. We're wildly self-obsessed navel gazers with distorted views of the real world. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2552534&forum_id=2#25451099) |
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Date: April 26th, 2014 11:59 AM Author: multi-colored cruise ship stain it's ridiculous flame that he completely ignores the economic effect of open borders as a further wealth transfer from middle class to the wealthy/owners of capital
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Date: April 26th, 2014 12:05 PM Author: Startled Stage There's no evidence for that. Immigration hurts the lowest level of workers, but benefits middle class people that don't have to work at Target or pick fruit. For those people it's hugely beneficial because it makes goods cheaper.
There IS a more complicated argument about lowering the average IQ of a country hurts it economically, but that's not really what you were going for here. |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 5:34 PM Author: turquoise useless nibblets pocket flask Found the Jew (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2552534&forum_id=2#36870785) |
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Date: April 26th, 2014 12:05 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle factory reset button theatre He doesn't actually ignore this. I'm only part way through but he discusses L's mobility or lack thereof. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2552534&forum_id=2#25451057) |
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Date: April 26th, 2014 12:59 PM Author: multi-colored cruise ship stain L? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2552534&forum_id=2#25451311) |
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Date: April 26th, 2014 12:02 PM Author: Curious toaster Fuck higher taxes, we need a big fuckin war (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2552534&forum_id=2#25451044) |
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Date: April 26th, 2014 12:08 PM Author: Orchid mildly autistic psychic if that is the case, why not increase inheritance taxes rather than income and capital gains taxes? the other problem is that his proposed tax scheme hits the upper middle class extremely hard. rather than targeting the top .01 percent of the population, he wants to sharply increase rates on people earning more than 200K. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2552534&forum_id=2#25451066) |
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Date: April 26th, 2014 12:11 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle factory reset button theatre Brother, literally no one in this thread has read the book. His tax schemes would be a boon to the middle class.
For example, he'd redo property taxes so that you pay property taxes on your home's equity. |
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Date: April 26th, 2014 12:14 PM Author: maroon diverse lay windowlicker I am talking about the upper middle class. there is a big difference between someone making 400K and 50K. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2552534&forum_id=2#25451084) |
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Date: April 26th, 2014 12:17 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle factory reset button theatre Yeah, his point is that's basically arbitrary, not from a personal perspective, but from a global Rawlsian view of economic growth. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2552534&forum_id=2#25451093) |
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Date: April 26th, 2014 1:03 PM Author: multi-colored cruise ship stain lol if true it should be about 500K |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 5:32 PM Author: Beady-eyed internal respiration plaza (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2552534&forum_id=2#36870778) |