Not to get all “no true Scotsman” here, but if you don’t want to tax billionaires until they’re not billionaires anymore then you’re not even close to being on the left in my book.
Billionaires are incompatible with any leftist system, so it’s nonsense to claim to be on the left without addressing billionaires not being billionaires as part of the to do list. We can disagree on how or on what timeline or what specifically to do with the billions, but it’s sort of core to the whole idea to not let so few own so much. People can try to claim that the state taking the billions is just making a couple of statesmen the new billionaires, but in a proper, controlled democracy, the state taking the billions means that all of the people are taking the billions, not just a few leaders. It reminds me of the argument of expanding the scotus. Just go ahead and expand it to 300 million or whatever. Boom, direct democracy. Vote by mail.
What if you don’t want to tax them, but seize their assets to convert all their businesses into worker coöps?
That’s just a really big tax, though.
It’s only a tax if the government siezes it.
If you and I go do it, it’s called “theft.”
The left is rooted in mass politics, not individual heroics.
If all of us do it they call it “looting.”
“The left” and “the left according to US corporate media” are two very different things.
There is now a real possibility California may have a Republican governor. Once again we ass-fucked ourselves.
I’m so shocked you guys
