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the intersting bait and switch that always seems to happen is people point at billionaires and then use their wealth to justify raising taxes on dentists that make 200k. Whereas the billionaires can just offshore their wealth.

they are used as scapegoats but the damage is done to working professionals like family physicians

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The poor “working professionals” that are making more than 90% of households but still consider themselves “middle class”/“working class”.

I know where my household income ranks

https://dqydj.com/household-income-percentile-calculator/

I’m in no way “rich”. But, I am intellectually honest enough not to consider ourselves “middle class” according to statistics.

I was listening to the BBC the other day and someone was something they estimate there's 32 Trillion dollars in tax havens the world over. I've never understood why some small country just doesn't invade a tax haven and seize the money. I know it wouldn't happen but it'd be a great way to disrupt crime in the world.

Because there isn’t 32 trillion in cash laying around with in various island vaults.

This thread is rife with lack of knowledge about what wealth even is and how to re distribute it to society.

I agree, I think the line between low taxes and high taxes should be very high, 200k or above. 200k people don't have enough resource control to personally warp democracy. In the context of class war, it could help change the lines of battle and get 200k people to realize they are on the side of the poor

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