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  • I don’t know Sanders, other than what I read in the news. Governmental authorities are to whom I refer. I suppose Sanders is a cog in a gear of that machinery. Consider the US as a whole. It started out as an anti-corporate nation. During the 1800s there were several court decisions which empowered corporations. Now it’s a corporatocracy. These are the kinds of lies to which I refer. Given a sufficiently long time period, a wealth tax will be used against the poor and the rich will laugh about it. It may have value in the short term to do what is claimed.





  • If I felt a wealth tax would never apply to me, I’d be for it. But knowing how the ultrarich manipulate the system, it’s just a matter of time before it applies to the masses of average citizens. Own a house or condo? A car? A computer? A pencil? Wealth tax it all (?). Maybe not today under this specific plan, but that’s what the wealth tax begins, and it will eventually evolve to.





  • Text of the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

    It has always bothered me that the First Amendment says nothing about the Executive Branch doing these things (such as via Executive Order), only Congress.



  • Off-topic comment. I read this article, but read it in a couple different sessions due to interruptions, and had apparently clicked on to other pages. I wanted to comment about how US culture is unreasonably hard on young people (in general), and for all the US talk of freedom, is often restrictive, especially so for minors. Unfortunately, finding this article page was rather difficult. A browser addon called “What we say” had 4 links from the article back to Lemmy discussion, but they were mostly to a federated instance called “Division by zero”. So I tried the button labeled “Find in my home instance”, but it refused to work, which could be due to my own browser’s configuration (it has worked on other articles and instances). So I came back to lemmy.world, and had to scroll manually through several pages, using browser search to find the article. It’d be nice if there was a more direct method of finding a Lemmy discussion from a non-Lemmy webpage.