Wealthfare makes even less sense than middle-class welfare | Greg Jericho

The Coalition is scaremongering about Labor and higher taxes – but it’s not government’s job to help the rich get richer

Here’s a juicy phrase to wrap your teeth around: “Every billionaire is a policy failure”.

It is an absolute cracker of a line. I wish I had come up with it, but it is from Dan Riffle, policy advisor to US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. As you can imagine, it is sending conservatives in the US crazy (well, crazier).

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