(04-01-2024, 08:39 PM)copycat Wrote:

(04-01-2024, 04:00 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Lol, you guys can't get out of black and white. There needs to be competition, and there needs to be classes. What doesn't need to exist is a ruling class. People with too much money become a ruling class. The system of government set up by our founders clearly didn't stop it. Our vote and voice clearly didn't stop it, and we're heading in the wrong direction. What's going to stop it? You guys get so caught up in economic capital that you neglect political capital.

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I almost wasn't going to respond to this post, because you clearly don't understand either my position or communism. There is zero jealousy towards billionaires. My ideas are rooted in philosophy, as is every moral. You are diminishing my position to elevate your belief.

I get where you are coming from however you are trying to control Political capital by constraining economic freedom.  I think you can achieve much of what you are asking for by attacking how huge money is influencing politics.  Corporations should not be allowed to donate vast sums of cash while writing it off to politicians.  The ability of PAC’s to influence politics has to be limited, and yes I know I am a broken record here but every bill submitted in congress needs to be a single issue.  One last thing comes to mind, if an elected representatives net worth exceeds a certain percentage in any given timeframe there should be a triggered audit of their finances and no offshore account.

This was my first approach to trying to solve the problem, but we already had that idea at various points in our government. People get around it. You have to disincentivize the elites from taking, whether that comes in the form of public or private greed. Every single conservative on this board would agree that we don't want a King or Queen. Why not? Because their power knows no bounds, both politically and economically. One begets the other. This is the fundamental flaw with every totalitarian government. 

I think we need to empower the government in very specific ways. One of which is limiting their greed. I think all people should be taxed at the same rate. Government should only regulate that which they can't directly benefit from, which is why my plan is nothing like communism. The goal is to limit power and influence. Sociopaths won't stop taking, and the peons who have bought into the idea that we're all just temporarily disenfranchised billionaires need to stop dreaming.

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