But for me the issue is that I work hard to have, and to continue having a nice life for my family and I. I took the risk, I invested in myself, and made the right choices over and over again. There should be a reward for that.

And while I don't think people should be homeless and starving, I'm realistic enough about the current politics (of both parties) to know that the wealthy won't be the ones to pay for it, it will be weaponized to drive the wealth gap further apart.

Sure in a perfect world billionaires would be taxed (and actually have to pay), and we could provide all this wonderful socialism everyone here wants, but that's never actually going to happen and I don't feel like paying even more taxes to watch the funds disappear into the already massive (and misused) budget.

[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

Thisnis why you have to go after the assets directly, wealth tax on fortunes over 10 million.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

and we could provide all this wonderful socialism everyone here wants, but that's never actually going to happen

lol they said the same thing about kings and empires…