You can try to buy all the pitchfork, torches, and rope, but there will always be more.
Jenson Huang of nvidia is in that pic but he is happy to pay the proposed billionaire tax.
Why spend anything at all? Gruesome has already pledged to protect the oligarchs.
I hope the ultra-rich lose everything. I hope they weep.
Not without everyone else banding together, they won’t.
Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you. Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you, and it will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure for the last days. Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
. Your gold and silver have rusted
Gold doesn’t rust
CHECKMATE THEISTS
Based James.
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The whole point of being wealthy in the US is there are no rules. Regular citizens will defend this because they believe they will get to enjoy this when they become wealthy. Taxing wealth is clearly breaking this unspoken rule.
Not just the US. I believe capitalism achieved that almost everywhere. People thrive on the idea of suddenly being rich and//or believe themselves to be rich because they have more than someone else they can look down on.
In Germany the leading politicians often fuel this too. When they talk about equality they talk about making those that earn much give more to support those that earn far less or nothing. In the grand scheme of things, even the high earners are poor. The rich people don’t have to earn anything it all. But that is never mentioned (by said politicians).
They (“up there”) basically managed to instigate a class struggle between workers.
people aren’t meant to work for a living in capitalism, that’s the poor’s job.
Man, I don’t know. I’m starting to think that unlimited campaign funds could possibly result in billionaires having more influence in politics than anything else, and that this might lead to legislation in their favor somewhat perhaps.
If only there was some way to prove this! but I guess it will always be a mystery.
Don’t worry, the free press will keep everyone honest.
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You’ll be hearing from my lawyers about the hot coffee you just forced out my sinuses
Why is it even an industry? This should not be an industry, there has to be better ways tho reign in spending and stick to the facts
Things are never going to get better if this type of shit isn’t made illegal. That rich guy cash is like sprinkling poison fish flakes into the melting pot.
The more they want to fight it, the more we know we need it
See that’s the thing.
I was indifferent from the sake that I am too tired to do the research on what exactly is written to have an informed opinion.
Then I saw how much the billionaires are fighting it.
Shit if they were just indifferent and stayed out of it I wouldn’t vote one way or the other.
Now me my parents and my partner are all voting for it.
Good job asshats.
These men would gladly pour their money down the drain than let it be used for the good of society. Sociopaths.
Yes, because the inequality gap gives them huge gobs of power. The chasm is so great that, to us peseants, it looks wasteful. Paying additional taxes is a double negative to them; it would reduce their “wealth” leverage, while theoretically improving our quality of life. How does one protect their generational hoard without the inequality that exists today?
Their incredible wealth also provides the epistemic privilege and validation to what many of us can only assume. This only furthers the need to hoard.
John Randolph of Roanoke “I am an aristocrat. I love liberty, I hate equality.”
Georg Büchner: “The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.”
Dumb worthless fucks would be better off just paying.
Or fucking off to Mars and never returning. (Hey I’d include all the air they can carry in that rocket!)
It’s a one-time tax of 5%, FFS.
You could make it something paid every year, or a one-time tax of 50% and they would still never miss a meal, never not have a roof over their head, never have to skip out on buying stuff like yachts and private jets and have lavish vacations, etc.
This is just about how much the idea of them contributing to the society that has given them so much offends them. This is the class that prides themselves on finding ways to pay the very least amount of tax possible, even though they won’t miss it at all.
It’s a sickness.
The tax would collect from 30 to 100 billion so they are only spending whatever they found under the couch to fight it
Then we need to make it cost more to fight it than to pay up
I wonder if it will cost them more trying to defeat the tax, than if they just paid the tax.
They’d probably be okay with that anyway. They probably enjoy paying more just to watch poor people squirm.
That’s the bonkers part. Not a single one will have to skip a private jet flight even after both trying to buy this and pay the tax.
It must suck to have so much money that one must feel the need to pay so much money instead of paying slightly more money in taxes… how are they even surviving, poor things.
It’s not even like they have to pay this annually. It’s a one time tax. Pathetic.
Wait, really!? They’re still pathetic and wrong for opposing it, but why only one time? I can’t imagine it’ll make much difference for anyone of it’s one-time only…
At first I thought that was a pic of that weirdo Curtis Yarvin.
Sergey Brin looking like a defendant on Law & Order: SVU
I bet it’s more than they’d spend on a wealth tax.
They don’t care if they spend more than this wealth tax would cost, they don’t want the precedent set that they can in fact be taxed
