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>Simple. Progressive income taxes, wealth taxes, and inheritance taxes.

Your argument that "The people who busted their asses to do things the right way are the ones who get shafted" could also be applied to progressive income taxes: why should the student who busted their ass through college to get good grades and a well-paying job upon graduation pay more tax to support the D-student who drank their way through college and bullied people who cared about intellectual things?



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