Massachusetts passed a 4% millionaire's tax last year. Now every public school student is going to get free lunch.
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Students in Massachusetts will get free lunch and breakfast at school thanks to a new 4% tax put on people who earn more than $1 million.

  • BubblyMango
    69·
    11 months ago

    And no millioneir will keep his money in a state where those are the tax rates. If you make it too high you literally get nothing.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          122·
          11 months ago

          So either they will get a lot of money or things won’t be any different except millionaires won’t be there hoarding wealth?

          I’m not seeing a downside yet.

          • doyoulikemyparka@feddit.uk
            8·
            11 months ago

            I think they mean the millionaires will find other ways to hoard it to avoid tax levels they won’t stomach. Fair? No. Reality? Probably.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
              131·
              11 months ago

              People make the same argument about not returning to the tax rates of the 1950s. I say let’s try it and find out.

              • pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz
                13·
                11 months ago

                It would take massive and severe state action to deprive the rich of that wealth, and that money would still not find its way into the hands of the poor because the state, and corrupt bureaucrats within it, would take it for themselves.

                The poor themselves would have to band together, organize, steal back all the resources from the rich, and distribute it amongst themselves fairly. And that won’t work without a deeply organized plan everyone in the group already agrees to, and even then it might not because the sociopaths and evil people among the poor – which comprises of a lot of them, sorry-not-sorry but it’s true – will just hoard all of those resources, creating a new ruling class.

                Stuff like a ruling class is just the human condition because humanity is inherently evil. The non-evil humans will have to accept that reality is like this, figure out who is trustworthy and who is not, band together the like-minded, isolate themselves and pray a sociopath or evil person never infiltrates their ranks, figure out how to suss them out, and kill them.

                Until humanity itself evolves to be more docile, it’ll never change.