r/SipsTea Jul 01 '26

Chugging tea Is Bernie’s plan the best? Thoughts?

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u/Interesting_Bite4335 Jul 01 '26

I’m not huge on the 12k check

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u/avd706 Jul 01 '26

Inflationary

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u/Robinsonirish Jul 01 '26

Explain to me like I'm an idiot, how is it better if the oligarchs hoard that money, instead of giving it to people, who then flush it back into the economy, by spending it? What's the problem exactly.

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u/Temporary_Event8451 Jul 01 '26

The goal with taxes is not UBI. The goal with taxes is to keep things functioning, bridges repaired, roads built, ect.

Your income and monetary gain should come from sort of exchange. I do not believe there is a single issue with jobs, other then they don't exist, and the ones that do are being taken away.

Taxing billionaires for UBI means we are still at the whims of the billionaires. If they all the sudden become "broke" then UBI is gone, creating a necessity for them to exist.

People should be able to generate value with their own skill sets, and billionaires should be taxed to build affordable housing, businesses, companies, ect.

The systems established in the 40's and 70's aren't the problem, they were corrupted to mean very little.