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alex_antoninThem, conservatives: I just don't want my tax money paying for these social programs.
Me, a leftist: Me too!
Them: Oh, so you ag--
Me: The only people who should be paying taxes are the billionaires and multi-millionaires. Tax them all at 75%! Why, Jeff Bezos alone could probably let us triple the budget on education and social programs AND pay off the national debt in a few years! And even taxing them at 75%, they would all still be billionaires because a billion is an astronomically high number, and they make more money in a day than you and I have made in our entire combined lifetimes!
Me, a leftist: Me too!
Them: Oh, so you ag--
Me: The only people who should be paying taxes are the billionaires and multi-millionaires. Tax them all at 75%! Why, Jeff Bezos alone could probably let us triple the budget on education and social programs AND pay off the national debt in a few years! And even taxing them at 75%, they would all still be billionaires because a billion is an astronomically high number, and they make more money in a day than you and I have made in our entire combined lifetimes!