r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • Aug 07 '26

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Eventually something has to give...

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The bill would provide a $3,000 direct payment to every person in households making $150,000 or less during its first year, which equals $12,000 for a family of four.

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u/CmdrFortyTwo Aug 07 '26

It's not stealing from the rich. Its returning ill gotten gains to the masses it was stolen from.

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u/random-meme422 Aug 07 '26

wealth is largely speculative paper numbers based on nothing so by definition not ill gotten

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u/northpacificfox Aug 07 '26

There is no way any of those people because billionaires without exploiting someone along the way. If you can prove every person in the block chain that contributed to their wealth was paid a living wage with benefits, I will stand corrected.

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u/random-meme422 Aug 07 '26

And your lifestyle exists on the function of taking advantage of laborers elsewhere that you don’t care about and don’t think about. Welcome to the real world.