Make billionaires pay tax act

[Saltwater60]

Of course from none other than sanders and Gillibrand.

Are these people seriously insane or what? You shit everything else down so we are solely reliant on these companies then you want to penalize them for the success. Makes no sense.

Sen. Sanders proposes one-time tax that would cost Bezos $42.8 billion, Musk $27.5 billion

The "Make Billionaires Pay Act" would impose a one-time 60% tax on wealth gains made by billionaires during the pandemic to fund health care.

www.cnbc.com

 

[kev74]

How about the "Make Hypocrite Socialists Pay Act"?

The .gov could seize 60% of Bernie's houses to pay for the damage his rioting...er, protesting followers have done.

 

[Blimey]

"One-time tax"

"Make Billionaires Pay Act"

Ah, they aren't even trying now. At least SAFE and CARES acts have a ring to them. What a lazy name for an act. I think if you're going to steal these people's money at least you owe them a cool act name. "Merica wrecking face act" or "The next one is we kill the rich act".

These people have ridiculous amounts of money but this kind of thing isn't going to do a damn thing to resolve long standing issues.

The only reason sanders isn't against millionaires anymore is because he is one. What a dick.

It's not like bezos' money is in a vault. He recently sold $3B in stock. Why? Not to burn it. To fund another company. I'm not pretending he's altruistic (let's get real), but if you were to take $43B of his stock on amazon and just sell it all in a day it would lower the share price, thereby hurting all shareholders to some degree.

 

[spat]

Should call it the "make billionaires take their money and leave" act.

 

[Saltwater60]

"One-time tax"

"Make Billionaires Pay Act"

Ah, they aren't even trying now. At least SAFE and CARES acts have a ring to them. What a lazy name for an act. I think if you're going to steal these people's money at least you owe them a cool act name. "Merica wrecking face act" or "The next one is we kill the rich act".

These people have ridiculous amounts of money but this kind of thing isn't going to do a damn thing to resolve long standing issues.

The only reason sanders isn't against millionaires anymore is because he is one. What a dick.

It's not like bezos' money is in a vault. He recently sold $3B in stock. Why? Not to burn it. To fund another company. I'm not pretending he's altruistic (let's get real), but if you were to take $43B of his stock on amazon and just sell it all in a day it would lower the share price, thereby hurting all shareholders to some degree.

It rings with their base!

 

[repete]

Lower the tax threshold to below what Sanders has and he'll sing a different tune!

 

[Acer-m14]

i thought paying taxes made for a civilized society

i want my money back

 

[livingston]

i thought paying taxes made for a civilized society

i want my money back

You will take your $1200 and like it...

 

[Deplorable Me]

You mean legalized robbery?

 

[1911guy]

Even if the tax was 100% it wouldn't be enough, and the next year there would be nothing to tax

 

[Grimscale]

Even if the tax was 100% it wouldn't be enough, and the next year there would be nothing to tax

Next year?
What makes you think they will give up anything THIS year!

The .gov could make the "tax" up right now, and won't get a single cent from these billionaires.


And the idea that a .gov could arbitrarily decide to tax someone into poverty is frightening. We could all wake up tomorrow and end up owing NY so much "tax" that we have to sell our houses and lose our life savings.


Fuck that. Gallows time.

 

[Steal2B]

Of course from none other than sanders and Gillibrand.

Are these people seriously insane or what? You shit everything else down so we are solely reliant on these companies then you want to penalize them for the success. Makes no sense.

Sen. Sanders proposes one-time tax that would cost Bezos $42.8 billion, Musk $27.5 billion

The "Make Billionaires Pay Act" would impose a one-time 60% tax on wealth gains made by billionaires during the pandemic to fund health care.

www.cnbc.com

 

[BDinPutnam]

Should call it the "make billionaires take their money and leave" act.

Beat me to it.

Even the European so-called socialist states he so professes to admire (who don't call themselves socialists, who largely have freer markets than we do, and who- surprise, surprise- TAX THE SHIT OUT OF THE MIDDLE CLASS to pay for social programs) abandoned their punitive wealth taxes for the most part- because they found- again, surprise, surprise- that they were absolutely chasing wealth out of their countries.

Hell, even FUAC understands this basic principle.

 

[TEOTWAWKI inc.]

Next year?
What makes you think they will give up anything THIS year!

The .gov could make the "tax" up right now, and won't get a single cent from these billionaires.


And the idea that a .gov could arbitrarily decide to tax someone into poverty is frightening. We could all wake up tomorrow and end up owing NY so much "tax" that we have to sell our houses and lose our life savings.


Fuck that. Gallows time.

But this is where we are headed, and it is necessary to actually effect a change. Taxes have to become so high that people will be forced to choose feeding their family over loosing their property.

And the gallows? I'm a huge fan. I remember having some kind of participation in government thing when I was in 5th grade. I got to play a judge. I sentenced everyone to death, and the teacher called me hangman for the rest of the year. In 5th grade!

 

[Mr. terzmo]

I love it...more people included in the $hit Pie......Billionaires can take a big bite...working class has been eating it for years

 

[TEOTWAWKI inc.]

I try to teach my kids that IF WE MUST be taxed, every $ should be taxed the same %. Shake everyone down equally, from welfare recipients to billionaires. No million page tax code, no progressive tax brackets, no sales tax, no gas tax, no sin tax, no wealth tax, no capital gains or estate tax, no property tax, no school tax, none of it(except for tolls on a truly privately owned and maintained road). Just one simple, flat, income tax. I'm no Milton Freezeman(), but this makes the most sense to me. If we had a flat income tax rate, no loopholes, EVERYONE would get FURIOUS every time taxes went up. By complicating and constantly changing the tax code, they pull the wool over peoples eyes. We can raise this tax and piss this little group off for a couple years while everyone else is happy, and then reshuffle the deck. By taxing every little segment of the economy differently, nobody add's it all up to see the real total.
If we must be taxed, I would rather see it increased on the folks receiving handouts and other bottom income earners, to bring it in line with the top brackets. Piss them off even a little and they will start the revolution we need.

 

[TEOTWAWKI inc.]

Watch how many people would say thats not fair

 

[Phauxtoe]

This type of tax is theft!

 

[Phauxtoe]

And does anyone really believe they can do this just one time?

 

[fresch]

Black dead guy said "9/9/9" iirc

 

[TEOTWAWKI inc.]

And does anyone really believe they can do this just one time?

Didnt they do the obamacare penalty 2 or 3 times? They didnt piss off the right group.

 

[BDinPutnam]

This type of tax is theft!

All taxation is theft.

 

[BDinPutnam]

Didnt they do the obamacare penalty 2 or 3 times? They didnt piss off the right group.

Not sure what you mean by this.

The Obamacare penalty (for not having insurance) was never designed as nor marketed as a one time thing. That was part of the point. Don't have insurance? Pay the penalty every year.

 

[fresch]

The pc penalty was an out for low wage workers who couldn't get on a social program (welfare).

 

[TEOTWAWKI inc.]

Maybe i got a little off base since the OP is about a one time tax.
Before it was eliminated i had no choice but to pay for insurance for my kids. Wife and I went without.
And I feel it was a one time thing, just once every year until you comply.
My employer at the time did not offer insurance, and my income at the time was just enough it made me ineligible and coverage unaffordable. Penalty=tax in this regard.

 

[Saltwater60]

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It means he has 10 dollars.

 

[Bigfoot]

I have 10 dollars. I'm gonna spend it on lunch... WOO HOO! ...

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

So the people who have gotten rich off using their positions as public servants want to tax /err steal from the next ladder rung above themselves to pander to their electorate, all but guaranteeing their re-elections and continual plundering of our political system for their own personal enrichment.


Ok.

Got it.


Maybe this shit would be better off it it burned down and we just had a restart. If it's ever going to happen 2020 is the year.



They're a bunch of jealous, entitled, spoiled hypocrites.

This is a microcosm of everything that is wrong with government.

And believe me I'm not a fan of rich people or billionaires but we people need incentive to work, to create, to innovate.

If not, before long, we'll be asking ourselves, "who is John Galt?"

 

[spat]

So the people who have gotten rich off using their positions as public servants want to tax /err steal from the next ladder rung above themselves to pander to their electorate, all bit guaranteeing their re-elections and continual plundering of our political system for their own personal enrichment.


Got it.


Maybe this shit would be better off it it burned down and had a restart. If it's ever going to happen 2020 is the year.



Bunch of jealous, entitled, spoiled hypocrites.

This is a microcosm of everything that is wrong with government.

And believe me I'm not a fan of rich people or billionaires but people need incentive to work, to create, to innovate.

If not, before long, we'll be asking ourselves, "who is John Galt?"

I think the real question is "where is John Galt ?"

We desperately need him now.

 

[Criticalt]

I love it...more people included in the $hit Pie......Billionaires can take a big bite...working class has been eating it for years

But the billionaires can take their pie and move anywhere at anytime.
The middle class has to stay here and eat shit pie.