Can We Appropriate the Rich? (Re: Surplus NOT from Capital Gains Receipts

[Carl Remick]

>The goal of any real socialist or even social
>democratic moevment has to aim for expropriation of the income (at
>minimum) of the first world wealthy to pay not only for a welfare state
>here but for redistribution globally.
>
>Obviously, taxation is only one path to that redistribution.  Strong labor
>unions and direct expropriation through increasing the wage share of the
>wage-profit split is another key part of socialist redistribution goals.
>
>But tax-the-rich politics are key, since "tax revolts" among the working
>class has been a key tool of conservatives in splitting working class
>movements.  Keeping taxes low on working class folks while soaking the
>rich is key to a broad range of socialist goals.
>
>-- Nathan Newman

An eloquent statement of principle, Nathan, and one that I would 
wholeheartedly endorse.

Carl
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