says it\u2019s sensible<\/a>\u00a0and there\u2019s historical precedent.
The trouble with historical precedent is picking the right precedent.\u00a0 College students who drink until they vomit could point to Rome, the pinnacle of civilization at the time, where vomitoria were provided in public entertainment venues.\u00a0 So that makes it alright? \u00a0\u00a0No.
Similarly, picking a time when America was the world economic superpower and capital investment had nowhere else to go, doesn\u2019t mean that high earners today would find their wages captured by higher tax rates.\u00a0 Rich people are rich, they\u2019re not stupid.\u00a0 They can move to low-tax venues.\u00a0 They can shelter their incomes.\u00a0 They can lobby for loopholes that only they can afford.\u00a0
The only way to ensure that everybody pays their \u201cfair share\u201d is to fully embrace Communism:\u00a0 from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.\u00a0 But getting ordinary people into that mental state will require a period of socialization, during which the recalcitrant, deplorable, bitter clingers are identified and sent for re-education in the far North, or sent to farm the land by hand, or buried in mass graves.\u00a0 And who will decide who lives and who dies?\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nBut the fact that it used to be the status\u00a0quo\u00a0<\/em>back\u00a0when the US was the world’s only functional economy (with ample tax shelters provided for the fabulously wealthy, like Ocasio Cortez’s benefactors) makes it “moderate”, to Big Left. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The New Hotness wants higher income tax rates.\u00a0 The Left\u00a0says it\u2019s sensible\u00a0and there\u2019s historical precedent.The trouble with historical precedent is picking the right precedent.\u00a0 College students who drink until they vomit could point to Rome, the pinnacle of civilization at the time, where vomitoria were provided in public entertainment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,69,1],"tags":[406],"class_list":["post-69654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-socialism","category-uncategorized","tag-tide-pod-evita"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69661,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69654\/revisions\/69661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}