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Silly of me to take you at your word when you said, "the problem with US debt comes from their unwillingness to tax billionaires".

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9283409232 5 days ago | parent [-]

Silly you indeed. I have no idea how you read that and interpret it as "taxing billionaires will pay the entire debt." As I mentioned in another comment, taxing billionaires is crucial step but one of many needed.

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philwelch 5 days ago | parent [-]

> I have no idea how you read that and interpret it as "taxing billionaires will pay the entire debt."

It’s the direct, logical implication of the statement and you are obviously moving the goalposts after the fact. The truth is, any tax increases will have to affect just about everyone who pays taxes in order to make any real difference. There is no possible way that taxing billionaires more is even a significant chunk of the solution.

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9283409232 4 days ago | parent [-]

I'm not moving goalpost, you just read my statement wrong. There are many steps to take but taxing billionaires is a crucial step to getting the funding to fix many of the other problems that cities don't have the money to tackle.

	▲	philwelch 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I thought taxing billionaires was supposed to fix the national debt, not to fund new spending that will supposedly "fix many of the other problems that cities don't have the money to tackle". (Which is false--lack of revenue is not the reason city governments don't work--but that's another issue). You've just moved the goalpost again.