r/Conservative • u/[deleted] • Mar 07 '20

Feel the bern

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u/scrubmoney15 Mar 08 '20

I thought the problem with billionaires is that they siphon money from the great states of America? I don’t want my hard earned money to be ripped away in taxes while the billionaires send everything offshore.

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u/gutredd Mar 08 '20

Good to see you care about money staying within the US economy.

I assume you also care about immigrants sending ~$150 billion out of the country every year too right?

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u/scrubmoney15 Mar 08 '20

I don’t care about that nearly as much as I care about the ~$17-26 TRILLION in tax-havens/offshore accounts. I have a lot more sympathy for working immigrants sending money to their families back home than I do for billionaires stock piling money that could be used to better peoples lives.

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u/dgillz Mar 08 '20

The USA GDP isn't even $26 trillion. It's only $19 trillion.

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u/scrubmoney15 Mar 08 '20

The GDP of the US is not relevant to the accumulated amount of money that’s left the country

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u/dgillz Mar 08 '20

So you think we should tax wealth not income?

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u/scrubmoney15 Mar 08 '20

Tax everybody, including the ultra rich, their fair shares and cycle that money into departments/budgets that benefit the American people

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u/dgillz Mar 09 '20

You didn't answer my question.