Billionaires' Low Taxes Are Becoming a Problem for the Economy

https://www.wsj.com/finance/billionaires-low-taxes-are-becoming-a-problem-for-the-economy-27a560ca

by xnx • 5 months ago

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ceejayoz2• 5 months ago

The Overton Window is really shifting if the WSJ is publishing stuff like this.

For everyone's sake, I hope you're correct. A quick scan of the article's comment section is enough to seriously curb one's optimism, though. I don't know what the demographic makeup of participants in WSJ's comment threads is, but the views expressed are surprisingly homogenous in both substance and tone.

I like to challenge myself with a little "game" in which I attempt to guess the most commonly expressed opinions in WSJ comments based solely on the parent article title; it isn't a particularly difficult game.

ceejayoz2• 5 months ago

I used to work IT at a newspaper.

98% of the comments were made by a handful of super-posters, and that was before AI hit the world.

TitaRusell• 5 months ago

This is currently a problem in my country. The government needs money to buy tanks and guns. The poor don't have anything to tax, the rich cannot be taxed- so that leaves the folks in the middle.

We are living in sad times. Historically when a country got itself into a life or death struggle all the rich people handed over their jewellery to fund the war. Now they fly to Dubai or Bern.

hulitu• 5 months ago

Billionaires' Low Taxes Are Becoming a Problem for the Economy

A problem ? There's a dozen of them. Better take more money from the poor, there are millions of them. /s

mitchbob• 5 months ago

Non-paywalled version:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/billionaires-low-tax...

Billionaires' Low Taxes Are Becoming a Problem for the Economy

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