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[–] individualin1984 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
There is not a problem with the top 1%. It is in the top 0.01% percent where all the fuckery lies. The 1% mantra is an intentional watering down of the problem so that nothing is ever done. By you spouting that planted rhetoric you are part of the problem, not a solution.
[–] dan_k 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Make a max money rule. Anyone that earns that amount of money becomes a 'winner' and everything for the rest of their life is free for them. Then we 're-appropriate' their wealth back to the market.
[–] Imjgalt 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Stop allowing them to use the government as an instrument of plunder.
[–] Diogenes_The_Cynic 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I'm cool with people making a ton of money, but not so cool with intergenertional transfers of wealth. Trusts and gifts, wills, all of it has to be capped.
[–] ThomasDavidSchuhman 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
By force of course.
t. leftists
[–] NeedPolyGF 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
I think everyone has the right to have acreage for shelter and growing food for survival. Anyone who doesn't want to use part or all of their acreage could rent it to others. The rich should not have the right to own more acreage than anyone else, but could afford to rent land, when needed.
But the main solution is ending corruption.
[–] sinjinsmythesback [S] 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
That is a broad statement that means very little. How do you "end corruption"? Who does that? Etc. More enforcement agencies? Tribunals? Local, state, federal? Who pays, taxpayers of course but how, new taxes?
[–] NeedPolyGF 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
For some of my ideas on ending corruption & improving communities, see my
Intelligence Report on Ending Corruption (Generations XYZ: Change the Damn System) at:
http://forum.freestateproject.org/index.php?topic=28491.0
[–] Thisismyvoatusername 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
To be honest, I do not understand the problem. It is only an issue if it has related harmful effects. But the rich simply getting richer (which is the cause of the aggregation) does not seem to me to be a problem that requires a solution. It is not making me poorer. My happiness, ability to support my family and plan for retirement is completely unaffected by the returns billionaires get versus what I get.
[–] kneo24 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The best I can describe it is an issue of "haves" versus "have nots". The top 1% have it all, while everyone else doesn't. They want a greater redistribution of that wealth so that the poor can be not so poor, and so that the economy can better flourish. Now, one could easily pick apart these statements, but this is the issue in a nutshell.
[–] sinjinsmythesback [S] ago
So first we need to tackle the dispute over whether this is an actual problem.
That question being whether the top wealth aggregation is simultaneously causing greater poverty. I think thisismyvoatuswrname is arguing that the aggregation is not having an effective the robber barons did on suppressing broader wealth accumulation among the masses.
[–] sakuramboo 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
You have a strong economy when wealth creation is encouraged, not when wealth is redistributed.
[–] Nimrod6 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
It takes money to make money.
[–] sakuramboo 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
That's why loans, venture capitalists, and investors exist, if you don't have the capital.