It’s not about the rich paying their fair share.
We need to tax them specifically to reduce their insane power in our system.
The federal government doesn’t need them to finance a damn thing. It can finance anything it wants to with the stroke of a pen.
We are not reliant on the rich.
Except that’s a sham way of framing things that most people use.
The US is monetarily sovereign and can always issue enough currency to meet any demands upon it.
Uncle Sam doesn’t go around collecting dollars like a beggar to apply to things. It creates money directly through spending, or backstops the creation of demand deposits by private banks via the reserve system. Money has to be created before it can be destroyed through taxation.
The issue isn’t, “Where will we get the money?”
The REAL issue is, “Will we have the infrastructure to care for our elderly?”
Warren Mosler goes over this in one of his better short pieces of literature.
I have four monitors. Two slightly angled directly in front of me, one angled on the left and a small 10 inch directly below my two main monitors that I use specifically for discord and my friend’s chat app he’s working on.
Why two directly in front of me with the split in the middle? I only have to shift my head slightly to move between the game I’m playing and whatever I’m watching.
But it’s more useful when I’m working on pixel art because I can have my drawing on one main monitor and my reference in the other while having a show or stream on the secondary angled on my left and chat stays on the small monitor.
As for if that helps productivity, I have no idea.
But I sure like my setup now.