• octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    When the rest of us get taxed it’s just how society works. When billionaires get taxed, now it’s a “scheme.”

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      4 months ago

      To be fair, that’s a British style of writing. It’s a loaded word in North American journalism, but neutral in the UK.

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      4 months ago

      Scheme just refers to a system. And you need buy in else billionaires just pull up their flag and move their capital.

      The fact these people can borrow against their portfolio and thus have no income is ridiculous.

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      4 months ago

      When they decide to tax the rest of us they just do it. When they decide to tax billionaires, they hem and haw forever over feasibility studies first.