Taxes & the Oligarchs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You realize that billionaires will still exist…just that NONE of them will be US citizens? They will just take all their companies to other countries.

They aren't paying any taxes now and are hijacking our country. So, what is the loss exactly? They aren't not going to have Amazon, Meta or other companies that do business in the US.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You realize that billionaires will still exist…just that NONE of them will be US citizens? They will just take all their companies to other countries.

They really haven’t done anything great for America. They can go f**k someplace else up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They will just leave the country and take their companies and billions with them.

Better to pressure them to put their money to good use for society. And that includes democrats like Oprah who get credit for being philanthropists when they are charitable with only a very small fraction of their wealth despite not even having kids to pass it to.

They are incapable of doing good. Musk and Bezos don’t do anything for America. F*** them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So you advocate Communism?

This line used to work but the masses are starting to wise up.

Both Communism and capitalism are materialistic systems. Both view people as mere economic units. They will grind people down to support the overclass. Look at the discussion of tariffs, posters are fine with grinding people down so long as it's not their family.

Communism just got their faster.

This. Someone gets it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You realize that billionaires will still exist…just that NONE of them will be US citizens? They will just take all their companies to other countries.

They really haven’t done anything great for America. They can go f**k someplace else up.

Like Soros, who is f-ing up our cities with soft-on-crime DAs from abroad?

You are all funny if you think that billionaire class has specific country influence only. they are global citizens, they buy any citizenship they want in most of the world with only a very few exceptions. They can buy political power in this country without living in this country, without their businesses being located in this country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You realize that billionaires will still exist…just that NONE of them will be US citizens? They will just take all their companies to other countries.

They really haven’t done anything great for America. They can go f**k someplace else up.

Tell that to the astronauts that Biden abandoned, and a billionaire had to come along and rescue them

Or to Ukraine who need Star Link, which a billionaire gave them

Same with hurricane victims

Bill Gates, how about all his wonderful charities, should he be kicked out?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You realize that billionaires will still exist…just that NONE of them will be US citizens? They will just take all their companies to other countries.

They really haven’t done anything great for America. They can go f**k someplace else up.

Tell that to the astronauts that Biden abandoned, and a billionaire had to come along and rescue them

Or to Ukraine who need Star Link, which a billionaire gave them

Same with hurricane victims

Bill Gates, how about all his wonderful charities, should he be kicked out?

He, like the others, should be taxed heavily, and should not be in a position to bend our society to his will. He, like the rest of us, can minimize his tax obligation through philanthropy.

Ain’t a partisan thing, bro.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You realize that billionaires will still exist…just that NONE of them will be US citizens? They will just take all their companies to other countries.

They really haven’t done anything great for America. They can go f**k someplace else up.

Tell that to the astronauts that Biden abandoned, and a billionaire had to come along and rescue them

Or to Ukraine who need Star Link, which a billionaire gave them

Same with hurricane victims

Bill Gates, how about all his wonderful charities, should he be kicked out?

No one said billionaires should be “kicked out.” Someone said billionaires would leave if the US taxed their wealth and several people said “good.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You realize that billionaires will still exist…just that NONE of them will be US citizens? They will just take all their companies to other countries.

They really haven’t done anything great for America. They can go f**k someplace else up.

Tell that to the astronauts that Biden abandoned, and a billionaire had to come along and rescue them

Or to Ukraine who need Star Link, which a billionaire gave them

Same with hurricane victims

Bill Gates, how about all his wonderful charities, should he be kicked out?

The thing about "charity" and philanthropies is that these are organizations that are controlled to do the bidding of a person owning them. Plus, they enjoy special status and favorable tax treatments. There is nothing different between charity donating to the "cause" or billionaire donating to politicians or indirectly funding certain political changes either at global or local or very local level. Money buys influence even if it's dressed as "charity" or an NGO. I don't for a moment buy an idea that B.Gates is a saint because he funds charities and Bezos is a villain because he buys his wife boobs and himself bigger boats. They are both focused on growing their influence.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So you advocate Communism?

There comes a point where the gap is too wide to support a capitalist society. You know there are more options other than a handful of people owning 95% of the wealth or communism.

No. I don't think most of the country has the critical thinking skills necessary to understand that.

[Anonymous]

I’m perfectly fine with the existence of billionaires, even though I don’t have a praying chance to ever become one.

What I think that should change is their ability to pretty much buy elections and favors. There should be a reasonable limit on what any person or company can donate to public campaigns.

Also, they should be taxed more - way more.

[Anonymous]

The situation we currently have — a dizzying and disgusting wealth gap, a proliferation of hubristic billionaires, a civic life that’s increasingly bent to the whims of corporations and the ultra wealthy — isn’t an inevitability, or the result of some natural law.

It was aided by a series of policy choices, most notably the decision to lower tax rates for the highest earners and corporations, again and again and again. But also decision to deregulate financial markets. To do nothing about stock buy-backs. To let our nation’s health become a mere product subject to the balance sheet machinations of rapacious PBMs and private equity ghouls.

These are policy choices, not inevitabilities. We can make different choices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You realize that billionaires will still exist…just that NONE of them will be US citizens? They will just take all their companies to other countries.

They really haven’t done anything great for America. They can go f**k someplace else up.

Tell that to the astronauts that Biden abandoned, and a billionaire had to come along and rescue them

Or to Ukraine who need Star Link, which a billionaire gave them

Same with hurricane victims

Bill Gates, how about all his wonderful charities, should he be kicked out?

No, they should cough up some BIG tax money! No billionaires!

[Anonymous]

Tax ‘em like it’s August 12, 1981!

Oh, okay, maybe like ^that^ with a little something extra to make up for all that failed to trickle down during the last 44 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You realize that billionaires will still exist…just that NONE of them will be US citizens? They will just take all their companies to other countries.

They really haven’t done anything great for America. They can go f**k someplace else up.

Tell that to the astronauts that Biden abandoned, and a billionaire had to come along and rescue them

Or to Ukraine who need Star Link, which a billionaire gave them

Same with hurricane victims

Bill Gates, how about all his wonderful charities, should he be kicked out?

Biden didn't abandon them. Who paid "the billionaire" to do that? You do realize Musk is a federal contractor, right? The government pays private companies like SpaceX to do these things. Musk is a NASA contractor, among other agency contracts he has, just like Boeing, Lockheed, Raytheon, etc.