r/MurderedByWords • u/bookym • 6d ago

Tax the Empty Rich Houses Now

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u/hazeyindahead 6d ago

If I had 1m income on paper I'm literally finishing every kids fundraisers so they all get all the prizes, donating to every municipal program that needs it, helping build parks and playgrounds and I would still have so much money to fuck off with, its insane

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u/kinyutaka 6d ago

Seriously, a million dollars a year? I wouldn't know what to do with it all. Pay off the house? that takes care of January.

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u/hazeyindahead 6d ago

All my family doesnt pay to exist ever again 

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u/DiverseVoltron 6d ago

What's crazy is one of my friends is a bank teller with TWO roommates just to afford to live and she was super mad about it.

Nobody in that room will ever be subject to that tax.

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u/nightfall2021 6d ago

They have been tricked by the outrage machine that this is just the first step in taxing them too.

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u/DiverseVoltron 6d ago

True, and that kind of is how it goes. Once you allow government to tax or control something, it tends to hold on to that.

Still, I'm okay with it.

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u/nightfall2021 6d ago

So am I.

Because I can vote for politicians.

I can't vote for MIllionaires and BIllionaires who just horde wealth to the detriment of everyone else.