With wealth inequality and billionaire control over American society growing ever more obscene, it’s well past time to implement a maximum wage limit.

  • TronBronson@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    We need monopoly busting, and inheritance tax, and general wealth redistribution. We need to stop monetizing basic needs and start paying fair wages. Income cap solves none of that. No way you can sell ‘income caps’ to the general public.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      2 hours ago

      It’s simple, any income is income and taxed as income. this means loans, gains, etc. alll income.

      Then everyone pays less income taxes. The current system puts the tax burden on the poorest people.

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      5 hours ago

      Monopoly busting, hell yes!! All the other ideas come from people who were unlucky enough to have nothing passed down to them.

      I am sorry for your situation, but my father worked his ass off to leave me and my siblings something (it was meager compared to most I’m sure but it helped me out immensely when I needed a leg up), but blanket laws like this would have royally screwed me just because “well I didn’t inherit anything from my parents, so NOBODY ELSE SHOULD EITHER!!” mentality.

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        Inheritance tax is what stops you having a noble class or owner class with a long line of inherited wealth.

        A good inheritance tax would be tiered like income tax. Lower amounts would be untaxed with higher numbers being taxed at higher rates.