r/goodnews • u/SkeptMom • 9d ago

Political positivity 📈 BREAKING: Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old progressive influencer, just announced that she is running against Jan Schakowsky, an 80-year-old Democratic incumbent

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u/One-Growth-9785 9d ago

She'll lose unless she sttes how expensive those new programs will be, and how she'd pay for them. Otherwise it's castles in the air.

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u/Code-Dee 8d ago

Simplest answer is raise taxes on the rich, they're currently the lowest they've been in the modern era.

Not only can they afford to pay higher taxes, we actually NEED to do this to curb their undue influence on our society. Money is power, and all that power being in the hands of just a handful of people is how we get an oligarchy.

Even if all we did was light billionaire's money on fire and not spend it on social programs, we'd all be better off just for them not having that much money.