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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf the wealth tax had been in place a century ago, we would have had more anti-semitism from Henry..
Forcing the wealthy to spend could boomerang. If the wealth tax had been in place a century ago, we would have had more anti-semitism from Henry Ford and a smaller Ford Foundation today.
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If the wealth tax had been in place a century ago, we would have had more anti-semitism from Henry.. (Original Post)
demmiblue
Oct 2019
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Skinner
(63,645 posts)1. So wait.
His argument is that we shouldn't pass a wealth tax because it might upset anti-Semites?
unblock
(52,200 posts)3. Yeah I don't get the logic at all. Wealth tax bad today because dead guy would have blamed the Jews?
Voltaire2
(13,019 posts)4. that plus instead of a huge private foundation doing whatever it wants
we would have, horrors, more money in the public treasury to do what we as a people want.
TheFarseer
(9,322 posts)2. Ok
I understand a smaller Ford Foundation even though I think thats a s#it argument. I dont understand how that makes him more anti-Semitic.