We can skip the tax and straight to Luigi. Your call.
I’ve said that if I went out and they were guillotining billionaires I would say “Hey, I wanted to do this with progressive taxation, single-payer healthcare, and free daycare, but you just wouldn’t compromise, so here we are!”
When I say “tax the rich” I absolutely do mean it with as much hate in my heart as any slur-shouting racist ever had.
The difference here is: The rich earned that hate.
Oh, and by the way, there are two options here…
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Tax the rich.
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Eat the rich.
Your choice, buddy. Which will it be?
Shoot, I mean it with more aggression
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Sorry, Richie Rich, but people don’t get to choose their race. You, conversely, could have chosen not to be a soulless currency hoarder.
Nothing wrong with hating a person for things they did voluntarily.
Rich old white men’s lives don’t matter, from every poor white man dealing from your bullshit
Yes. But it’s all relative. You are probably a very rich person compared to the poorest 20% of the world. Should they eat you?
Yes
And that’s called integrity. A rare sight in these troubled times.
I think that's just called
Nah, i don’t fear death and once I’m gone who needs this old shell?
You know, it’s tricky. I get called rich on the Internet, based on my position and salary. But I don’t feel rich. I don’t own my own home and I doubt I ever will. I rarely take vacations,I don’t eat out - too expensive. I don’t go to the pub with my friends anymore, can’t afford it.
Because I live in Vancouver, an expensive city.
It’s all relative.
It’s totally relative. My husband and I together in Germany earn about half of what I used to earn alone in the US (we’re a student and an apprentice, so we earn especially little). I’m still significantly more prepared for emergency costs now than I used to be, because the total rent for my apartment is about half what I used to pay, and I no longer have significant health/health insurance or vehicle costs.
We’re talking about people that are, objectively, richer than 99% of literally everyone else in the entire world. The point you’re trying to make is relatively meaningless in the current context.
Not really. You probably have all your needs met (enough food, somewhere comfortable to sleep) with leftover resources. Many in the world do not have their basic needs met. You could give your extra resources (everything above necessary food and board) to the poor. You are hoarding wealth from their perspective. Just like you see the billionaires hoarding wealth.
Don’t break an arm jerking yourself off, there, hero.
Oh I’m no hero, I’ve got way more than I need and I’m enjoying it. Not bezos levels, but quite fine thank you. But as such I can see the vitriol against the millionaires is rather hypocritical. And I can jerk off however I see fit.
Then maybe shut the fuck up.
Why? U can stfu about billionaires being evil if you’re the same evil.
They can start with my ass.
IKR, like OMG yes lmao
So treating the rich like everyone else who is paying taxes is a “racial slur”.
When You’re Accustomed To Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression
The interesting part for me, is that you can clearly infer from this that billionaires consider themselves a different race.
They certainly consider themselves outside of society. Even the sociopath billionaire equivalents of the early previous century had beaten into them the understanding of civic duty and charity, so they built schools, libraries, and hospitals. Today’s billionaires have none of that other than a desire to lighten their tax load and donate in self-serving ways. They are truly parasites on society, they leech off of everyone and cause far more harm relative to the absolutely minuscule few jobs they might create - and even then the jobs only serve to make the billionaire richer.
Exactly. Even the most brutal lords and rulers understood that they needed to keep their populace placated somehow or there will be trouble.
The Italian warlords and nobility of the 15th and 16th centuries were some of the most monstrous, murderous bastards you’ve ever seen, but they also bankrolled much of the art that Renaissance Italy is famous for.
It’s easier to think of them as Lords and Ladies ruling by birthright.
1780s France enters the chat
Taxing the rich isn’t the solution, guillotines however…
Guillotines are too 18th century. We can use woodchippers. Feet first!
agreed
but it’s easier to pass the head around the crowd than whatever bits and pieces left by the woodchipper
But why though? All they did in the past was hold up the head and cry out ‘behold the head of (insert name here)’.
A public execution with them clearly in the woodchopper and screaming in agony is all what is needed.
If something is worth doing, it’s worth doing right
Just give all your money away and you won’t be a target of the slur.
Listen pumpkin “tax the rich” is the last thin sliver that stands between you and what the rest of us really want. So take your pick.
Glad this guy is reminding us that the extremely wealthy can say shit so profoundly stupid you have to question their mental capacity. Really drives home that circumstances and greed can and do make stupid people rich.
Hang the rich, redistribute their wealth.
Better?
I was hurt by a racism in my worst place: my money.
“Tax or axe, your choice.”
TAX THE RICH!
Tax the rich is the moderate position.
It’s tax or eat.
3rd option involves several varieties of removal from the mortal coil.
