I made millions out of the last debt crisis. Now the wealthy stand to win again

The income tax just barely services the national debt, IIRC. None of it goes to pay for any services. The whole thing is very ugly. There's a great infograph "Death and Taxes" that shows where the budget goes (not what pays for it, or anything about black budgets), good start. The whole "my taxes pay for" meme is just off. Your taxes just service some numbered debt. It's depressing to think about.

You can't take a capitalist society's costs from the poor unless you want to dispense with the whole idea, eventually, anyway.

That statement reminds me of this saying: "If I can't have it, neither can you."

I just did an internet search, and it's called "crab mentality" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality

> While any one crab could easily escape, its efforts will be undermined by others, ensuring the group's collective demise.

People feel really entitled to what they earned, because, they earned it. The thing is, their ability to earn it is predicated on society being set up in such a way that the resources available to them make that path of earning possible. It's hardly unreasonable to think that one should pay extra back to society to accommodate that.

This has always been a shit argument. Injustice has to be fixed across the board, otherwise it's a tax on just the honest/moral people.

Ah yes, because a millionaire is gonna make a dent in the multi-trillion dollar deficit. No. What will help fix wealth inequality is not donations from rich people; it’s the government. There’s more non-philanthropic rich people than philanthropic ones.

This is such a tired and lazy argument.

1) The "easy way" is not the same as the "correct and effective way".

2) He's young, retired, enormously wealthy, and can do anything he wants. But still donated his time/energy to help educate people about wealth inequality. To you, it may be "just talk" but he's already doing way more than 99.9% of people in his position.