They should face the taxation regardless. There are plenty of non-billionaires who do a lot of good for society. It doesn’t give them a free pass from taxes.
It is time everyone understood that Jeff Bezos's "two pillars" approach to the WaPo-- that of "Personal liberty" and "free markets" is just newspeak for defending the belief by big business and wealthy elites to freely dominate society and take advantage of the rest of us at will.
I don't think they care about society. They seem to view everything from the lens of what will be best for them alone. I think some of them may be in for a rude surprise though when we pull back our own money.
more and more convoluted solutions like this will appear, as long as people keep avoiding to face the real problem of having these outlier actors ( billionaires, to be clear ) in the economy who have achieved enormous hoarding only by being the best at selling things for more than it cost to produce
There is no way any one person needs more money than
90% of countries. And the cruelty of taking life savings nutrition
Rich past from starving dieing children for fun SICK MOTHERFUCKER
I can’t wait until we regain control of this “government.” And we can use all the newly established precedent set by this reckless psychotic administration to do good things for the American people rather than screwing them. Create several doge like entities such as-
- The department of capital distribution. Looks for discrepancies in the tax code that may be exacerbating economic inequality.DCD
The department of preventing extremism. Looks for media organizations illegally behaving like political entities, funds education and dispels disinformation. It’s dope
The tech billionaires will say they are saving humanity. What greater gift to us can there possibly be? And with humanity they mean themselves. Either by living forever or having their "light of consciousness" copied onto a silicon substrate.
They could write for the upcoming week that they donated to my retirement fund about $100,000.00. That would get me out of debt and a big burden off my shoulders. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 that one of them sees this and takes me seriously. 😐
They’ll tell you they enslaved, oops, sorry, employed so many. Whilst their employees are subject to full-on tax regulations, they dodge it all like the good modern mafia bosses they are.
It’s about the sensation of entitlement and subsequently the application of appeasement. Modern capitalism! 🤷🏻♂️😉
This the smartest idea ever for the federal deficit...which is largely caused by the billionaire tax cuts...which is mainly facilitated by Conservative laws.
Got wife more plastic body stuff,
Economy boost*
Took a cruise, left a huge tip, money to the economy.*
Bought more cleaning supplies for the servants, money to the economy*
Bought overpriced golf clubs, club membership, economy boost*
More plastic for the girlfriend.*
Don’t make it more complicated for MAGA they already struggle seeing through trump who acts like a child 🫣 I think it still makes the issue clear enough & delivers the message 😂
I couldn't agree more! We should've never allowed billionaires to becine legal in the first place. So many of them,if not all of them,get kickbacks from OUR govt while giving nothing back in return.
Him & handful others could end homelessness, feed poor, fund quality education, affordable healthcare.They have means to improve the country for everyone using the money we create & give them without even dropping under 1b. Yet they prefer to buy politicians & avoid contributing back to society…
The world’s wealthiest man, has just cut food aid to 40 million of the most vulnerable and dependent & poorest people on earth. He’s working on cutting Medicaid chips and snap next in order to give the $400,000+ annual earners a tax break Criminal! Evil!
You make it sound like they have rooms full of 100 dollar bills which is just dumb. They are "Worth" billions true but most of that wealth comes from owning a machine that's value is worth billions like Amazon Google Microsoft Apple. The question you SHOULD ask is how did Biden Pelosi get rich?
You know, in monkey society, if one monkey is hoarding all the food, they just beat that monkey up and take it... There's so many more of us than them, and they really couldn't stop us... Food for thought...
I’ve been saying pretty much the same thing for ages 😂 it’s not just that they can’t really stop us but also that their wealth & every privilege they enjoy is dependent on the population’s ignorance or willingness to tolerate them.
Ok no money so you suggest stealing?
I think you sort of missed the point. Nobody cares if someone makes a profit & can live comfortably. It’s about the massive imbalance of wealth. Not talking millionaires we mean billionaires who got there by exploitation & avoiding taxes while others struggle
Wealth redistribution is required because if the system wasn't adjusted to greed then we wouldn't have billionaires or even trillionaires for that matter...
That would be a high call for them. They are all about greed. And whatever "charities" they sponsor are deducted from their taxes, so it's not generosity, just free publicity.
We need to tax the shit out of the billionaires! They only have their position because of our government. The court system, currency, banking, finance, military, air, land and sea transportation. Intellectual property protection. They use much more than their fair share! They must pay
I disagree. They should face progressive taxes no matter what. Failing to provide proof that they made any contribution to society should entail confiscation and thorough dismantling of their business empires.
Billionaires have their money invested in different financial funds and instruments that are the back bone of an economy which creates business and jobs for the people. These jobs give the people health care plans, paid vacations, retirement plans and careers. Puts food on table & roof over head.
By shorting the British pound in 1992, he manipulated the currency into a sudden devaluation, stealing value from millions of people. Hedge funds are notorious for manipulating commodity prices to steal from people.
He is a statist for sure and knows very well how to take advantage of the central banks currency counterfeiting for his own benefit. That is true of the top people at Wall Street who feast off the counterfeit currency of the Fed. Is it not long past time to end the Fed?
Bezos infringes about 100 of my patents, which amounts to stealing billions of dollars in business opportunities and licensing revenues from my companies. Theft results in less competition in the market, which depresses wages and inflates prices, effectively stealing from millions of people.
So he is stealing from you, by competing with you despite the patents that you have to protect the fruit of your intellectual labor from competition. If the patents are good, you can sue to enforce them. That is expensive so it is wise to first pick the very strongest infringement cases. Good luck.
Agreed! The tech billionaires do the very least to give back to society,yet think they should be the ones to tell the rest of us how we should live our lives & what services we deserve.
Why don’t we skip the list and just go straight to progressive taxation. Personally, I’d like to live in world much less reliant on the largesse of billionaires. Tax them. Use the money for the common good.
“Most” billionaires? I don’t believe that is necessarily true. If certain people hit the jackpot with a tech product, and it’s stock goes ballistic and they become a stock billionaire, it doesn’t make them a criminal.
Even Bill Gates, in spite of being a billionaire because of Microsoft's success, engaged in some underhanded actions to get there, and he's one of the few who actually earned his billions.
This but also because of citizens united and the follow up (the name of the case escapes me) that decided there is no limit on political contributions as long as they go to a PAC. Thats where the oligarchy began and it’ll never end without taking that back
In all seriousness, other than information gathering, simple math and data processes, cheap communication platforms, some robotics, what has the tech industry given the world that made the world or society better over the last thirty years?
The New Deal did one thing more than it did anything else. It put the people to work. Reaganomics in the form of privatization took 13 US billionaires & just shy of a trillion dollar National Debt & 45 years later 800 US billionaires & a 36 trillion dollar National Debt.
FDR said, “Necessitous men are not free men”. Bezos and the billionaire class and their millionaire minions owe it to the world to make sure nobody ever goes to bed hungry. They owe it to the world to see to it that everybody has a warm, dry, and safe place to sleep every night.
Wouldn’t it be lovely if becoming a billionaire were treated like an elected position that had to be justified by, say, five demonstrable contributions to society? Failure would be an impeachable offense, punishable by relegation to the status of ordinary citizen, or worse.
"In this grand,grotesque symphony, the Oligarchs and Trump play their parts. He gives them power-unchecked, unregulated,unchallenged. They, in turn, give him the illusion of wealth, propaganda, and the illusion of omnipotence. A symbiotic relationship of mutual corruption-at the taxpayer's expense."
Sure.. but when will that happen. IN 2021, the DEMS controlled both houses.. and didn't repeal the Trump Tax scam. Just like in 2009, and didn't repeal the Bush tax scam. Or in the 1990s and didn't repeal the Reagan tax scams.
The level was August 11th, 1981, rates were close to perfect. But, 50+ years of neoliberal economics/policies, will take time to repeal and need an opposition party willing to showcase why those gov handouts to the elite/corporations are bad.
Handouts to cronies and special interests are bad. Both parties have done it tons. Biden to solar farm companies and high speed internet and electric car manufacturers and windmills. All crony as can be. The most effective thing we can do is insist that the Federal Reserve is abolished.
Agree, all those things should be owned by the working class/state.. and not privatized. It's like we learned nothing from the past 50+ years of neoliberalism, and want to repeat the same mistakes as before. Are you expecting a different outcome?
Government gets less money if it taxes corporations and rich less. But if government stopped taking money from taxpayers and paying it to the corporations and wealthy in the first place, that would help a ton. If the Fed stopped counterfeiting the currency, that would nearly halt unearned wealth.
Been that way since the Clinton took over the party in the 1990s. Sadly most don't see it, they want to keep the believe that they are the opposition party.
Billionaires could fill books with what they think are accomplishments…Reagan started the mindset that people at the top becoming wealthier benefits all of society, which as we know are complete lies and how we ended up with a regime instead of an administration.
Started in 1930's but Thatcher/Reagon championed deregulation, privatization, tax cuts, and a reduction in government spending on social programs.
This marked a significant shift towards an economic model that prioritized free markets over state intervention.
And the Rise of the Oligarchs
The election was stolen. More than 3.5 million votes that Kamala had and we have the receipts. And not a peep from the Dems.
The corporate Dems became complicit in the situation when they jumped on the Reaganomics bandwagon with the GOP more than four decades ago. They are NOT on our side. >:(
If the billionaires gave back and fixed America for real; they would be the most loved people on Earth. But instead these evil, psychopaths, these evil malignant narcissists will be hated forever! For what? Do they really need to become trillionaires to feel happy? While we starve and die? EVIL!
All billionaires should give up 10% of their wealth to fix our nation's infrastructure, medical availability and help for our homeless etc.! 10% of all the billionaires $ will NOT hurt them in any way but it will fix America! Wake up ass holes!
I like how you think. Billionaires should follow the lead of other philanthropists and see what “Good” they can do for the millions of people that helped them. However, most of us did not knowingly or happily contribute.
Just a thought...Amazon seems to think they're untouchable. What if Americans started purchasing from their local stores or other online store and not Amazon? How would that impact sales and their stock? DUMP THE STOCK MOVEMENT!! Keep it going down! Amazon is MAGA!
Thank you for your speech at ARC 2025, where you explored the fine art of civilisational renewal through a cocktail of traditional conservatism, classic liberalism, and, of course, the deeply moving concept of voluntary self-sacrifice. https://aiwillybillhuman.substack.com/p/jordan-petersons-first-speech-at
I think it is a lot simpler to simply teach people the math of $1 billion. You could spend $100,000 a day for more than 27 years before you exhausted that $1 billion. Therefore, everyone should be taxed at 90% of amounts over $1 billion
Spot on! Tell us all what you billionaires contributed to society. Bought a bigger yacht 🙄 How do you contribute? Fired half your staff? Busted a union? Cut benefits to your employees? What?
There are those that are stingy and don't help anyone but themselves? There one Billionaire than paid I am not sure if the amount is correct something like $187 Million and said to the US Goverment Spend it wisely and help those whom need it! That post made me smile someone paying what is owed???
In just over 30 days, the unhinged, traitorous felon has managed to destroy nearly every aspect that makes America strong and a proud defender of democracy.
Our last hope to survive are the first 3 words of the Preamble —
WE THE PEOPLE !!!!
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Try the guillotine for maximum results.
2) create good and services
3) pay loads of payroll taxes
4) innovate
5) contribute to society
90% of countries. And the cruelty of taking life savings nutrition
Rich past from starving dieing children for fun SICK MOTHERFUCKER
The department of preventing extremism. Looks for media organizations illegally behaving like political entities, funds education and dispels disinformation. It’s dope
2. Upgraded helipad on yacht
3. Did Nazi salut
4. Hid a bunch of $ on some island in the Caribbean
5. Masculine energy
Billionaires can move their money out of reach much faster than you can enact fantasy legislation.
It’s about the sensation of entitlement and subsequently the application of appeasement. Modern capitalism! 🤷🏻♂️😉
Economy boost*
Took a cruise, left a huge tip, money to the economy.*
Bought more cleaning supplies for the servants, money to the economy*
Bought overpriced golf clubs, club membership, economy boost*
More plastic for the girlfriend.*
*Sarcasm
ELON: "Verizon has buggered up the FAA refitting. My Starlink will assume this multi billion dollar contract."
THEY ALL LIED. EVERY ONE OF THEM.
WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW IS A TAKEOVER OF GOV'T BY AMERICA'S OLIGARCHS
That’s “wealth benefits that all the voters created and pay for, enabling all businesses to operate on a level playing field for the good of all”
Or,
“rich people … to varying degrees…owe some of their success to good fortune and the contributions of government” - President Obama
1 M seconds = 11 days, 13 hrs, 46 min, and 40 sec
1 B sec = 31 years and 8 months
1 T seconds = 31,709.8 years
Money is not food. You can't do shit with money without someone getting rich.
Monkey gives you a banana but you have to check him for ticks.
You would just steal the banana because you don't want to check him for ticks.
And tomorrow you don't have a banana.
I think you sort of missed the point. Nobody cares if someone makes a profit & can live comfortably. It’s about the massive imbalance of wealth. Not talking millionaires we mean billionaires who got there by exploitation & avoiding taxes while others struggle
It would actually be a negative items list
We need to tax the shit out of the billionaires! They only have their position because of our government. The court system, currency, banking, finance, military, air, land and sea transportation. Intellectual property protection. They use much more than their fair share! They must pay
ex-friend! 🤨
It's legal theft because they control the government, or rather the government was created to benefit them--almost exclusively.
Most billionaires are billionaires because they're crooks.
Usually the non-criminals end up being millionaires and then go and do things rather than focus on accumulating more wealth.
They're a minority though.
There I fixed it.
2. Nothing
3. You get it!
This marked a significant shift towards an economic model that prioritized free markets over state intervention.
And the Rise of the Oligarchs
The corporate Dems became complicit in the situation when they jumped on the Reaganomics bandwagon with the GOP more than four decades ago. They are NOT on our side. >:(
High school kids are expected to volunteer in community, for goodness sakes!
Ideally, corporate law needs to change to include provisions for the benefit of the common good and temper the benefit to the shareholders.
https://aiwillybillhuman.substack.com/p/jordan-petersons-first-speech-at
And meanwhile, how much did you spend on groceries this week?
https://rumble.com/v6ppzpi-oklahoma-senator-markwayne-mullin-mocks-farmers-and-promises-elitists-4-tri.html
Voila! Budget balanced!
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Our last hope to survive are the first 3 words of the Preamble —
WE THE PEOPLE !!!!