Unions also enable workers to bargain as a group, so they can have an actual effect on working conditions and pay, which individual workers cannot exercise any power over. I haven’t worked for a union, but many of the positive standards I enjoy were achieved by the collective bargaining of unions. If you enjoy…

1. Less wealthy voters voted for Clinton over Trump.

Have you considered the fact that Bernie would have won?

I don’t think you understand the role of the DNC Chair, which is to fundraise and organize, two things that Ellison is empirically better at than Perez, who has worked 1 country level election.

Not only is Trump a gigantic bigot and a clown, HRC lost while outspending him almost 3:1. That alone should tell you how moronic it would be to go with Perez. Dems will crash and burn if they are not united around Bernie’s platform, because

1. Money is constantly double taxed.

No it is fucking not, and your average small business is not going to be able to take advantage of this.

This is wrong and misleading, its a marginal tax that kicks in starting at 5 million and someone inheriting 10 million would owe $770,000 that can be amortized over 15 years or $51,333 a year. If junior can manage a 0.51% return on investment on his business he can afford the tax. 

Because you’re dead and dead people don’t have rights.

Here’s why. If a portion goes to the people, via the government, that is helping address inequality, which is the subject of this post.

All money is taxed over and over, as it moves from one person to another. Here, the original owner isn’t being double taxed. His heirs are paying tax on what they are receiving, so it is the transaction that is being taxed, not the underlying pile of money.

Stock held in a family trust are not considered taxable probate assets.

If I earned something and paid taxes on it why should I not be able to give that to whoever I want?

It’s not contradictory and it’s not a double tax. Money is taxed every time it changes hands. When you earn a paycheck, that money is taxed. Then, you use that money to buy something and that money is taxed. Then, that money is used to buy more product (and tax) or pay salary (which is taxed).

It’s not contradictory and it’s not a double tax. Money is taxed every time it changes hands. When you earn a paycheck, that money is taxed. Then, you use that money to buy something and that money is taxed. Then, that money is used to buy more product (and tax) or pay salary (and taxed).

The founding fathers had major concerns about the passing of immense wealth from generation to generation, and that is part of what led to the estate tax. They did not want huge amounts of money passed down because it could/would lead to families that would then have an outsized amount of influence when they didn’t…

I think the main rationale behind it is that you can’t choose your parents. Being eligible for an inheritance is basically winning the genetic lottery.

The biggest issue with the inheritance tax is the passing down of private businesses, not cash.

Something that has to be addressed is that reparations are not only with regards to slavery, nor Jim Crow. The systematic draining of property (real and personal) from black families which has happened under predatory lending, civil forfeiture, and eminent domain is a thoroughly recent affair.

There’s lots to focus on…

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