Kim Kardashian targeted by California tax campaign

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[hinoema]

Personally, I'd rather address the culture of wage discrepancy, the poor labor laws and the privileges of corporate power that allow people like this to accumulate vast fortunes from the work of the vast majority of others, first.

[skellington1]

Except that changing culture and established law his harder than shifting a few bucks around. We definitely need to be working for greater wage equality and lower poverty, but in the mean time, people that rely on welfare programs are hurting, badly. A little redistribution would actually make a huge difference to a lot of people. There's nothing pointless about that.

[kaowolfie]

I... really, you know, we can redistribute their taxes into welfare programs while we work to reduce the problems that cause the need for those programs. It's really easy to raise taxes compared to solving problems like wage discrepancy, so it makes sense to use the increased rich people taxes as a stopgap measure while we work on the longer term solution.

[kaowolfie]

I prefer to embrace multiple vectors for getting what we want, with some used short term and others for long term goals.

[keeni84]

Thank you.