“Our current tax policy rewards capital gains (extraction) with a very low tax rate, while punishing dividends (along with revenue, earnings, and payroll) at a very high tax rate. If we want to promote transactions and circulation, we should reverse that.”— Douglas Rushkoff, medium.comTagged: Tax Policy, Taxes, Capital Gains
“Bernie Sanders’s impact is limited because he attacks business and billionaires. That’s not the way to communicate with them and create change. The better approach is to show how the current game plan isn’t simply contributive to wealth inequality and incompatible with the survival of the human spec…”— Douglas Rushkoff, medium.comTagged: Bernie Sanders, Business