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p1esk 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon cuts 16k jobs

Safety nets only work while there are people paying (a lot of) taxes.

mikeweiss 4 months ago [–]

I guess you could tax the companies and people still earning money at like 95% or something.

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