• FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
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        Personally, I prefer sickles and hammers, and at this point I no longer want to compromise with the billionaires.

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    When they pay obscene amounts of money to prevent paying taxes, or break unions, or disenfranchise voters, it’s because they calculate that the obscene amount of money is less than what they’d expend otherwise.

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      Honestly - in the event that this nature fails, California should just unleash a barrage of similar legislation like this, year after year. Eventually it would end up cheaper to just pay the taxes than continually fight against it.

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      No no no, the anti-Christ is obviously every single person who opposes invasive tech and the obscenity of billionaires. Doing the exact opposite of what Christ would do doesn’t make you the anti-Christ, that would be too obvious.

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    In a just world we would follow the money, and charge them with treason.

    Oh and also freeze all his accounts, then charge every member of his staff associated with treason and him as well.

    Manipulating voters or congressmembers is treason. If they want the death penalty to exist. Give it to all of them that don’t rat out their senior who commanded it.

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        The sad fact is that it works. They defeated similar changes in illinois just a few years ago by spending millions on advertisements telling people that the tax changes would ruin their lives.

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        yea that is trickle down economics for you. millions trickle down to politicians so that tech oligarchs can keep their billions