@rbreich I wish I had an option but unfortunately billionaires will always cheat the system. (They wouldn’t be a billionair if they followed the rules)

@rbreich Why do you (ppl) support your system?

@rbreich Yes!!!!

@rbreich This school teacher agrees 🤯

@rbreich
As a teacher, let me tell you that a lot of those larger structures (pay, benefits, career trajectories, etc.) loom like plagues when one compares their efforts to their rewards.

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@rbreich I've been scraping by on the minimum wage in Australia for a while thanks to the pandemic, and I've been paying more tax than billionaire investors.

@rbreich Me too and my wife is a teacher!

@rbreich Yet, here we are?

@rbreich I hope you're loving that, as an important #American voice for #kindness, you're getting a wide reach here in this new (to us!) place. Carry on! And thank you!

@rbreich How long did you teach? . Has it always been so? Billionaires are not that new. #Pharoah

@rbreich 👍
it's simple good sense. Unfortunately, many still do not understand it!

@rbreich This teacher couldn’t agree more. 😳

@rbreich What's the next step in economic systems? What replaces our hybrid-capitalistic-social system as an improvement?

@rbreich ouch ouch ouch :psyduck: it makes no sense!

@rbreich wait, are you done with capitalism?

@rbreich "The rich will invest the money, which will create jobs."

That lie has had traction since the 1980s, if not earlier. It's part of what keeps middle- and working-class people voting against their own interests.

@rbreich B uT ThE bILlIoNAIreS CrEaTe JoBs

@rbreich Testify

@rbreich hell yeah!

@rbreich we may need to consider marching on the Bastille?

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I refuse billionaires.

@rbreich
And yet we all continue to use their fake money, fabricated from nothing. We all continue to pay taxes to a government that is firmly under corporate control.

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Sirs, I wish you would give this plan your full consideration. My 92 year old father asked me to check this article to see whether I could find any holes in it. I challenge any of you to poke holes in the argument.

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@rbreich …you forgot that they pay higher taxes AND pay for all the school supplies for their students out of their own pocketbooks. #truestory

@rbreich Asking that everyone be taxed the same is just seeking equality in oppression, we should be asking that the government take less from people not more.

But as long as they're taking stuff they should target the billionaires and leave normal people alone.

@rbreich You don't become billionaire with avoiding tax bud.

@rbreich Welcome to Earth 😀

@rbreich it’s morally wrong that we build the infrastructure and services that they exploit for profit.

@rbreich Price gouging and wage demands. Trickle up and at least some trickle down. Software engineer layoffs are just high pay job churning - still a seller's market.

@rbreich agree completely!

@rbreich Thanks! I am a Speech Therapist who works in public schools. Both of my kids make more than I do. with 30 years of experience and 2 Master’s degrees. They are in their early 30s. #NEA #PublicEducation

@rbreich Thanks for supporting educators

@rbreich it’s called capitalism.

@rbreich You say that...and yet you do.

@rbreich
We need Elizabeth Warren as Senate Majority Leader. Manchin needs his chairmanship of the Senate Energy Committee stripped. He's corrupt.

@rbreich this teacher is sick of it. Every year we are given more duties, more expectations, but no increase in compensation. I don't want to be a billionaire; I'd just like to be able to reliably provide for my family. I feel I'd have much more focus and motivation in the classroom if the stress of affording basic needs wasn't looking over me every week. I care for my students, but I love my own kids more.

@rbreich I understand the sentiment but teachers (and everyone else) pay the same tax rate on investments

@rbreich Amen, brother.
Until billionaires are taxed into not billionaires, they will continue to be bad for democracy and existential dangers to each and every one of us.

@rbreich,
What about other professionals? Ok, for an emergency worker to pay more taxes than a billionaire, but not teachers?
Given capitalism is the economic system of Western societies and has been in place before you or I were born, I wish you good luck in changing it.

@rbreich Tax rates are the result of public policy not economic systems. Capitalism is still capitalism whether you have flat tax, progressive tax, or no tax. They're two different subjects. But, yes, they are both messed up.

@rbreich Hi I read your book supercapitalism and in my mind get stuck the duality citizen/investor now what would be the equivalent in a supersocialism? I hypothesize that in the other part of the spectrum, the duality will be Citizen/welfare recipient.

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@rbreich Just stop taxing income from teaching?

@rbreich
That is called CAPITALISM!

@rbreich what are you going to do?

@rbreich yet, here we are!

@rbreich Boston Tea Party II

@rbreich You do accept it every day. the rich are above the law.

@rbreich Hear Hear!

@rbreich I support that too

@rbreich ...and those on benefits pay an even higher rate of tax when indirect taxes are taken into account.

@rbreich I agree with you in principle, but here we all are, participating in this system. For the moment, we’ve accepted it.

@rbreich Someone needs to pay the bills in America, the 1% have all the money after decades of trickle down economics.

@rbreich
Ah yes, but like the Universe noting Steven Crane's declaration of self-existence, it creates no sense of obligation in the economic system.

@rbreich what exactly can be done to change it? It’s been this way and steadily getting worse for the average person since I’ve become an adult, I was 18 forty years ago.