I agree on all three counts, but what I am talking about is the rhetorical strategy for trying to communicate the belief that it is very important in the long term to let people keep their stuff, to people who are proposing to take some people’s stuff right now.
I don’t think bad long term consequences would be hard to communicate in this instance (though it would not be easy in the middle of a protest). For example, I expect almost everyone who supports a wealth tax to also oppose the idea of corporate personhood; but these rulings started showing up in the 1800s, and the Citizens United decision showed up in 2010.
There’s a bit of line to walk so as to not misrepresent what OP is believes, but I feel like establishing a link between longer-term bad effects that billionaire tax supporters understand might be as simple as saying “Citizens United was in 2010 and. . .” gestures at things in general
I agree on all three counts, but what I am talking about is the rhetorical strategy for trying to communicate the belief that it is very important in the long term to let people keep their stuff, to people who are proposing to take some people’s stuff right now.
I don’t think bad long term consequences would be hard to communicate in this instance (though it would not be easy in the middle of a protest). For example, I expect almost everyone who supports a wealth tax to also oppose the idea of corporate personhood; but these rulings started showing up in the 1800s, and the Citizens United decision showed up in 2010.
There’s a bit of line to walk so as to not misrepresent what OP is believes, but I feel like establishing a link between longer-term bad effects that billionaire tax supporters understand might be as simple as saying “Citizens United was in 2010 and. . .” gestures at things in general