Joe, you're a thoughtful fellow and I always appreciated that about you.
. Here's the thing though:
It's fine that we have people living longer - fine they aren't forever wage slaves.
.What isn't fine is that pricks who are money hungry, it stuff deh mony in its pockets, monsters make 400 X what the people who actually do the work make. They can be the ones that pay in a lil more, not the unborn in a forever game of who can make more babies - because I'll guarantee you it won't be the highbred makin them babies..
.That's the future selfish (conservative) shits are making.
That should be enough for a thoughtful soul to chew on.
..or to put it more simply - we are in a retrograde evolutionary cycle. Thanks conservatives.
. Otay - I spilled the beans there.
Way I look at it is there needs to be financial capitalism and a social capitalism
@The New Holliday . Many others have alluded to this idea but they don't often state it explicitly.
I thought 1 way it could work is tax the wealthy but also give them tax breaks/credits if they perform actions that governments would otherwise have to do. Like infrastructure, building hospitals, social housing, fixing roads, etc. Or creating jobs at home, retaining employees instead of shipping jobs overseas.
So theyd get all the tax breaks/credits coming to them as long as they invested socially & in the local economy. I think they call that benevolent capitalism & the benefactor gets his or her name on public works projects etc.
There has to be a way of getting the wealthy to pay for things but giving them back in return so they dont flee and set up their businesses elsewhere.
I think that's what Harris should do instead of tax unrealized capital gains. Give the business something in return for providing something.
It might even lower us budget deficits & increase tax revenue.