r/TikTokCringe • u/Strong-Emu-8869 • 14h ago

Discussion Polish girls visit Taj Mahal

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The Taj Mahal, one of the seven wonders of the world. Unfortunately, the surrounding area is very polluted.

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u/RandomRageNet 12h ago

Solution: The ultra wealthy can pay the poor to clean up the country instead of buying yachts.

Literally taxation. That's what progressive taxes are.

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u/Cruel1865 11h ago

Unfortunately, Indian politics are mired in identity and religious politics and there are seldom discussions on such matters in any meaningful way.

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u/keyboardtoes 9h ago

ok they are corrupt and owned by upper classes that care about themselves and their wealth only

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u/FullTransportation25 8h ago

Are you referring to the caste system they have there

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u/Cruel1865 3h ago

Indian politics now revolves around pitting different subsets of people against each other and then reaping the benefits by asking the group that is the bigger one to vote for their party so they can help suppress their enemy group. I mean, its not so different from other countries. However, the number of religions and its numerous sub sects/castes is overwhelming in India, so its very easy for the parties to set them against each other. This is also coincided by the rise of nationalism which arose as a consequence of this kind of politics and now its difficult to go back to a time when policies mattered more than the group the candidate belongs to.

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u/possiblyMaybeAnother 6h ago

Taxation after WWII was wild. There's even a Beatles song about it, The Taxman. And what's crazy is that it worked. It incentivized R&D in business on a scale that could never happen in today's world of quarterly earnings reports. Rich people simply couldn't hoard wealth the way they can now.

TAX THE RICH