Nothing is more selfish than billionaires hoarding wealth that could be used to ensure each person has a correct to healthcare
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The position of billionaires who refuse to be taxed is simple: Their right to hoard wealth is more important to them than the tens of millions of Americans who can't afford to see a doctor or a nurse. They cry like babies about the prospect of sharing some of their wealth so...
It’s been shown empirically that there is a correlation between increasing wealth and decreasing empathy. As horrible as these people are, their behavior is almost predictable. I’m not saying anything new here, but the problem is the system.
If society declines and they have all the wealth then they can wait for people to get desperate enough to lower prices for things like land, smaller businesses, houses. Or until they just die and the banks take what ever they might have had. They will own everything and have a...
No see you don't understand, if we tax billionaires clearly they'll leave the country and take all their worth with them. (Hopefully the sarcasm is obvious)
Fair share tax payments, I pay one out of every four dollars. The don't. Lex Luthor in his new Miami Beach mansion pays less than 2 out of every one hundred and wants the city to pay for his mansion septic arrangement. Have him pay for his own shit and then someone else's i...
Fuck that, that doesnt go far enough. there shouldn't be billionaires.
If *999 million dollars* is not enough for you to be happy, no amount will ever satisfy you, and there's no reason why the rest of society should enable your addiction.
Every person who is siding with the oligarchs on this can fucking fuck off.
But someday *I* might be a multi-billionaire and I dont want to screw myself over.
I look at Reels or tiktok while I brush my teeth. Twice a day for less than 5 minutes at time. But I got to see a girl showing off her new Rolls Royce that she had everything redone in pink. I just looked at it and thought this is just another minor reason to tax the rich
Fear not, billionaires... Gavin Newsome is here https://preview.redd.it/wz4s8mwjsnog1.png?width=498&format=png&auto=webp&s=ee2eeb5f28c3426d0a13675d40f04c7e546d3c66
Eliminate billionaires with wealth caps. How about that instead?
They also need to pay back the fair share they haven't been paying for decades and decades. Let's not pretend it's just a clean slate.
Hard to blame people when basic healthcare feels out of reach while wealth at the top keeps exploding
There's greedy ass motherfuckers, then there's billionaires.
Problem is that about half of those who support this wealth tax don't vote. among voters the the support drops to about half.
Taxation and taxes are never on any ballot. Voters are prohibited from voting for, or against, any specific laws or policies.
We're sick and tired of being sick and tired.
It’s like they did t see the great gatsby
If they threaten to leave, let them leave. I would much prefer if Peter Thiel never came here in the first place….
Nothing is more dangerous, deadly or threatening to life and liberty.
So much for representative democracy. Establishment dems like GN need to go just like the Republican party needs to go.
it's honestly wild how many people are finally like "yeah tax the billionaires so we can actually afford to not die" and the support is huge
A third of people are more than happy for billionaires to have unearned wealth rather than tax them to pay for their OWN healthcare?
meanwhile, many cali/dem spaces will ban you for pointing out prop 13 is among the most regressive modern tax structures.
A tax nobody will pay where even if they did, the promise is to “fund healthcare”, a giant, expensive item that requires consistent tax revenue to build a budget, with a one time tax. Seriously there are no adults in the room anymore, just different kinds of kid throwing tem...
Just the phrase one time tax infuriates me. Tax is infinite for everyone else why would we just tax the wealthy one time. Tax them every time they move money around like they do to us. Plus a hundred other steps to undo what they have already taken from us. Put some seasoning...