• Etterra@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    20
    ·
    1 year ago

    It’s like the Inheritance tax. It’s basically meaningless to the poor, but it sounds bad so the GOP uses it to scare their base. However the targets of the tax are primarily the handful of rich capitalist bastards who have a harder time bribing lobbying their way out of it.

    • rambaroo@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      The exit tax starts at $120k. That’s “I can rent but not buy an apartment in San Francisco” class, not the “rich capitalist bastard lobbying Congress” class. And of course it’s also an income tax so it does jack shit to tax actual wealthy people.

      Actual rich people already worked around the tax issue by putting their assets in stocks and loans. They aren’t paying this tax at all in the first place. They don’t need to lobby anyone.

      It’s fucking ridiculous how some of you try to frame this income level. Doctors and lawyers are not the wealthy capitalists phoning up Congress and getting what they want from them. It’s actually fucking crazy that you’re acting like they do. People raising a family at that income level will never retire just like any other worker, but now they’re rich capitalist bastards?

      • rexxit@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        Totally agree. Income isn’t wealth and people are clinging onto 1970s implications of “millionaire” when in 2023 having a million net worth doesn’t even allow you to retire and might just mean you own a house and have little other savings. Similarly “six figures” income meant a lot 30-40 years ago, but inflation eroded that to middle class in the 21st century.