Billionaires' Low Taxes Are Becoming a Problem for the Economy(www.wsj.com)
10 pointsby xnx3 hours ago2 comments
  • TitaRusell2 hours 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.

  • ceejayoz2 hours ago
    The Overton Window is really shifting if the WSJ is publishing stuff like this.
    • NietzscheanNullan hour ago
      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.

      • ceejayozan hour 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.