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The key is not to merely take back the vast wealth and power that's already been accumulated and hoarded by the few through taxing them. It's to enact, codify, and enforce rules to prevent vast amounts of wealth and power from becoming concentrated in the hands of a few ever again.

I don’t know. Gates ex Mackenzie might be an outlier.

We also need to take money out of politics. Getting rid of PACs and Citizens United by legislation. No more "Corporations are People" 💩!

No more tax loopholes either. And force landlords to get real jobs.

The polluters, exploiters, destroyers must pay to fix what they’ve wrecked

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Spot on!!

The problem is mostly loopholes. The very rich theoretically pay 37% to Uncle Sam (that's the current top individual tax bracket, where most of their income is). All tax "advantages" should be required to be re-argued every five years. Again, the rates are not the main problem.

Decades of American billionaires attacking democracy gave US foreign adversaries not only a foot in the door to pile onto the attack, but to position themselves to effectively call almost all the shots on federal government operations.

Restore the 1963 top tax rate.

Vote! This was originally written by John Pavlovitz. This version was added to by Travis Baldwin.

The rich must pay the same as everybody else!!

absolutely true. absolutely.

The actor Reagon fooled many a fool to believe in fairy tales. His showmanship presidency was planned by the rich to undo FDR's New Deal, a plan that saved democracy. Now we repeat history. We have an opportunity to do more this time for We the People. Note: It never trickled down & never will.

Democracy cannot survive with the existence of billionaires. A billion dollars is too much power for one person to have, especially an unelected person unaccountable to anyone. Their wealth has to be confiscated for the sake of democracy.

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It would appear that taxing the rich would also be a defense of out nation's morality.

Timothy 6:10 From the beginning of time, money has been the root of all evil. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Or mention the if P42 wins more votes than P40, that P40 will be voided even if P40 passes. /2

I hope my fellow voters really study these propositions and realize they are not as the anti-40 and pro-42 ads depict. "Ordinary" folks looking into the camera and saying that voting for P40 will raise every one's taxes. Or the ads saying that P42 is just to protect retirement assets from taxes. /1

HEAR HEAR!

Wealth is stored power.

I agree.

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Absolutely. Our problems can all be traced back to this unconscionable wealth disparity. The country started swirling down the drain when Reagan came in the scene. Time to stop republicans rot & corruption for good!

Also, wealth tends to start the cycle. The people who already have wealth might hoard most of it, but they share more than the people who already have power do. Therefore, stamping out wealth inequality is the more effective route to equality in both (but that's a fun discussion to have).

Democrat Politicians, (todays DEM) promise everything and deliver nothing. Did me 5 things Biden did to make life better. You cannot. The Gov't used to break up big companies, to stop monopolies, but DEMS will not touch it now, because they get the kickbacks from BiG Business.

Absolutely. Them throwing all this big money behind Rapepublicans tells me they can easily afford to pay their fair share in taxes.

We can have billionaires or we can have democracy. We can't have both.

It’s a national security issue.

So obvious it shouldn't need to be said, but sadly...

Needs to be done on a federal level not the state level. Prop 40 is deeply flawed but satisfies the progressive virtue signaling. College professors should know better than to give in to that.

Shouldn't ... 100% d'accord But ... Can't ? America proves since decades exactly this .. As long as there is no spending gap in the elections (enforced, not without any consequences), this long you're breeding exactly this unqualified rich representatives . It starts with the basics.

pundits are spouting nonsense like “wealth isn’t as powerful as the electorate”. When the electorate is the victim of disinformation bought by the wealthy, the entire “power to the people” scenario is unworkable. The longer we allow $ in politics, the further we get from the ability to correct it.

How does your guy Tom Steyer feel about it?

VOTE

The pen is mightier than the sword, and mightier still is the ability to buy ALL the pens and ALL the swords.

This👇is how we got to an authoritarian oligarchy.

994. From - "It's the economy, stupid." To - "It's the rigged market economy, friends. Time we did something about it."

Yup

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." (Supreme Court Justice Louis D Brandeis)

I'd be concerned if Republican/Libertarians lose power!! They will stop their false prop up of the Stock Market and drag us into a Recession/Depression and blame it on Democrats.

Contrary to what many believe, it's not democracy that bring prosperity. It's widespread prosperity that brings democracy. Widespread steep inequality facilitates autocracy.

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HELL YES on 87 and NN in Colorado. HELL NO on 136.

Tax the billionaires out of existence. Get money out of elections. No one should be able to buy an election!

#TRUTH! #FACTS! #REALITY! AMERICANS TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

take a big f bite out of the rich👑

If wealth can be married to power then it can be divorced from power. We can start by rolling back the Citizens United precedent with laws that recognize corporations are not, in fact, people, but merely noisy machines that exploit people.

Illicit Musk is on the top of the list. The guy needs to be prosecuted for all of his crimes related to his work with DOGE. If the prosecutions rise to the level of removing his citizenship, then he should be deported back to South Africa.

There's only one immigrant destroying America, Musk. Lock Him Up! GO VOTE!