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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The very rich pay lower taxes than at any time since the 1920s. If they can't hack the tax environment today, they just have to suck it up the way the rich in the 1930s to 1990s sucked it up. Somehow, those people managed.
And if they think the populist approach of politicians today is bad, they'll be in for a shock if the trends in wealth concentration continue for another 20 years. They'll need to live like the rich in developing countries do, behind walled compounds and with bodyguards for their kids. When wealth disparity gets extreme, the poor find far less civil ways of taking it out on the rich than incremental tax increases.
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Couldnt agree more. Unfortunately we live in a truly global society now and the super wealthy have more options than ever.
In the meantime us plebeians have to play the cards we're dealt or start talking about Revolution.
I'll start sharpening the pitchforks if you start dousing the rags in oil for the torches.
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