Republican Vivek Ramaswamy Wants Government To Seize Inherited Wealth To "Promote Meritocracy" and "Redistribute Duty." Yet Another Lying Deep State Con Man.
Posted by freedomforall 1 year, 8 months ago to Politics
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"Sometimes, when you know one thing about a person, it’s all you really need to know about that person.
Here’s something to know about Vivek Ramaswamy, who wants to be the Republican front-man for president: He favors a confiscatory inheritance tax – which he says will promote a “meritocracy” by dint of eliminating the “problem” (as he sees it) of an unearned advantage possessed by people whose parents leave them a substantial sum of money.
Or even any money.
He says that the state seizing – and redistributing – the accumulated wealth of a lifetime of work is “a way of redistributing duty.”
The “duty,” apparently, to turn over whatever’s left of whatever you’ve earned that you still have at the end of your life to the government.
Where to begin?
How about with this business of promoting a “meritocracy” – by seizing and redistributing the wealth earned by the meritorious? Or at least, the successful. People who worked hard – or worked smart – and accumulated wealth, which they did not dissipate during their lives because they wished to save it, presumably for the sake of their children. Which is to say, people who were motivated – at least in part – to be successful because they wanted to help their kids.
This Vivek character favors punishing such parents by promising to have the government take not just some but almost all of what they earned (after having already taken a large portion of it via the tax-theft applied to it when it was earned and then again whenever it was spent and even on the things it was spent on, such as real estate ) so that it can be given to . . . who, exactly?
Why, to the government!"
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Vivek the Snake Oil Salesman.
Just Say NO.
"Sometimes, when you know one thing about a person, it’s all you really need to know about that person.
Here’s something to know about Vivek Ramaswamy, who wants to be the Republican front-man for president: He favors a confiscatory inheritance tax – which he says will promote a “meritocracy” by dint of eliminating the “problem” (as he sees it) of an unearned advantage possessed by people whose parents leave them a substantial sum of money.
Or even any money.
He says that the state seizing – and redistributing – the accumulated wealth of a lifetime of work is “a way of redistributing duty.”
The “duty,” apparently, to turn over whatever’s left of whatever you’ve earned that you still have at the end of your life to the government.
Where to begin?
How about with this business of promoting a “meritocracy” – by seizing and redistributing the wealth earned by the meritorious? Or at least, the successful. People who worked hard – or worked smart – and accumulated wealth, which they did not dissipate during their lives because they wished to save it, presumably for the sake of their children. Which is to say, people who were motivated – at least in part – to be successful because they wanted to help their kids.
This Vivek character favors punishing such parents by promising to have the government take not just some but almost all of what they earned (after having already taken a large portion of it via the tax-theft applied to it when it was earned and then again whenever it was spent and even on the things it was spent on, such as real estate ) so that it can be given to . . . who, exactly?
Why, to the government!"
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Vivek the Snake Oil Salesman.
Just Say NO.
all i see from the GOP is talk and talk and talk
no one has acted to stop the biden crime cabal and the democrat and GOP crime syndicate
so unless there is some major upheaval this nation is just done
il-legal just walk over the non-existent border
the usurper "president" commits crime at the drop of the hat and nothing is done
what will it take for people to stop being fat and lazy and rise up???