Tax the rich is a dog whistle. It plays on people's fear and hatred of wealthy individuals. At first one imagines that it's not the normal person, only the people living off the pig's back that are targeted. But that's a moving feast. Anyone wealthier than YOU is disgustingly wealthy. Right?
Once (((they))) get that piece of legislation past the post, they'll start fiddling with it, setting the level is lower and lower - read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to see where that went: In it's full manifestation of madness, a person owning one gold coin, or one cow, was deemed rich, and either killed or sent to the Gulags.
Tax the rich is a dog whistle. It plays on people's fear and hatred of wealthy individuals. At first one imagines that it's not the normal person, only the people living off the pig's back that are targeted. But that's a moving feast. Anyone wealthier than YOU is disgustingly wealthy. Right?
Once (((they))) get that piece of legislation past the post, they'll start fiddling with it, setting the level is lower and lower - read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to see where that went: In it's full manifestation of madness, a person owning one gold coin, or one cow, was deemed rich, and either killed or sent to the Gulags.