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Defund The Billionaires (Original Post) DanieRains Oct 2021 OP
Billionaires should be an extinct species. argyl Oct 2021 #1
If we took every penny after 250 million, jimfields33 Oct 2021 #2
Tax Net Worth Growth Over $10 Million DanieRains Oct 2021 #3
They'd be replaced easily enough.How much work do they do after a certain point anyway? argyl Oct 2021 #5
Means taxing FTW n/t aocommunalpunch Oct 2021 #4

argyl

(3,064 posts)
1. Billionaires should be an extinct species.
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 05:21 AM
Oct 2021

No one has worked hard enough to earn or deserve that kind of money.
I'm no Communist but if, say, $250 million is insufficient for someone to live on then they can live in a cardboard box when they blow through it.

jimfields33

(15,786 posts)
2. If we took every penny after 250 million,
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 09:18 AM
Oct 2021

wouldn’t CEOs only do business up to that limit? I doubt they’d work beyond that basically for free.

 

DanieRains

(4,619 posts)
3. Tax Net Worth Growth Over $10 Million
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 11:42 AM
Oct 2021

Is my plan so far.

Tax wealth accumulation through owning assets like income.

People who have to work get every penny they make taxed.

argyl

(3,064 posts)
5. They'd be replaced easily enough.How much work do they do after a certain point anyway?
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 01:20 PM
Oct 2021

These billionaires don't get their money through their profound intelligence. It's their ruthlessness, their subverting of our political system, their flagrant tax cheating, and often breaking of our laws that get them where they are.
The money's how they keep score. Like I said before, if they can't make $250 million last their natural lifetime let them find shelter under a cardboard box.

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