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Do you agree with this? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 4 days ago by favoredponcho@lemmy.zip to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It’s pulling the money back where it belongs. You cannot have the “American Dream” without subsidizing a middle class. There is no middle class in capitalism without subsidies. FDR created the middle class.

Reagan and post Reagan congress have spent the last 40yrs disenfranchising the middle class by feeding their money to the billionaire creation endeavor.

This is a problem created by Congress. They could fix it. They choose not to.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Taxing billionaires at 1950s levels could virtually eliminate the lower class.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But then who will I be better than? (/s)

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 3 days ago

That part.