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Billionaires like Elon have broken their social contract. We must nationalize their wealth for the benefit of our country.

Your inability to see the power inherent in wealth, especially extreme wealth like being a billionaire, is one of the main failures holding you back from being an agent of positive change. You may be anti-MAQA, but in the end you remain an abettor of an unjust system.

Re nothing wrong with billionaires having billions: sir, everything is wrong with that. It should not be possible to amass disgusting amounts of wealth that exceed the budgets for entire countries. Or so much wealth that you'd have to live and work for 10k years whilst other kids starve. Come on.

Gotta disagree with you here. We don’t need billionaires. We need a system that builds a strong foundation by creating opportunity for the broad base of ordinary people. Extreme concentration of wealth is always at odds with that goal. We can have rich people, but not billionaires.

Could you not argue at this point that having billions is part of what allowed them to have this level of power? No one should have enough money to buy their government.

No Adam I think it’s time to finally face the fact as hard is it for a republican or an ex republican to believe but there is something seriously wrong with billionaires hoarding all that money while people are starving on the streets

There is an argument for their being a problem with billionaires existing at all.

If a billion dollars in someone’s pocket means a thousand people are homeless, then yeah there is something wrong with it.

I kinda have an issue with billionaires, though . . .

I’m gonna have to disagree with you. When people are starving, there is something wrong with being a billionaire.

There’s actually quite a lot wrong with billionaires having billions.

The problem with having billions is that you really can get to that level without seriously doing terrible things. Billionaires are people who elected to extract at every turn and give nothing back.

I'll grant you that exception, provided she achieves no-longer-billionaire status by such and such date, right?

She is an inspiration and I am so thankful for her.

Pragmatic af. Very nice.

Maybe, in so far as she reduced the wealth of one oligarch by half

That would actually be kinda difficult. She owns 35b in stock not cash but she also gives away what that stock earns yearly. When Musks said that she was ruining society she doubled the amount of her gifts last year.

There should be no billionaires. Tax the crap out of them

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There actually is something terrible about billionaires having billions, it's called hoarding resources. Plus, how many billionaires have exploited their workers? There's something really wrong with getting rich off the hard work of others, without proper compensation.

Billionaires don’t care about the working class and they don’t need a tax break because if adds to national debt they probably not the ones who have pay the crippling interest rate.

@adamkinzinger.bsky.social Would you agree with Bernie’s idea to tax them at 2% or higher?

No. There's inherently something wrong with being a billionaire. At some point, you'd have to have exploited something (people, environment, system) to get there. All to accumulate vast sums of wealth unnecessarily.

Right so as usual you are THIS CLOSE

Actually, there is something inherently wrong with billionaires. Ethically wrong. Morally wrong.

That's the inherent flaw to there being billionaires. It is a class of 'lords'.

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They are cutting benefits to become trillionaires from the same wallets that made them millionaires

It’s also that they pretend they are self made and don’t benefit from a healthy productive society. They act like contributing to that society is unfair. Even if they didn’t get subsidies and tax breaks they benefit from roads, bridges, high speed internet, and an economy that provides consumers

I agree but would add nobody should have so much power they can endure relentless lawsuits

There is something wrong with it, though.

All billionaire wealth is our stolen labor.

No, there is something extremely wrong, immoral, and evil with individuals hoarding a billion dollars in personal wealth.

Thank you Adam! Appreciate your clarity, courage, and insight! Keep going …. We so need you!

I’m actually starting to think there is something inherently wrong with allowing the accumulation of that much personal wealth and power in a single individual…

Actually yes, there is something inherently wrong with Billionaires existing & what is transpiring is absolute proof of it. If a Mill-Bill-Trillionaire ever employed anyone to work for them at non-living wages, they are prosperity thieves.

I highly doubt "Adam" cares.

Uh, yes there is. The only way to get billions is to exploit something- workers, the environment, the government, consumers... #EveryBillionaireIsAPolicyFailure

I respectfully disagree. There should be no billionaires; no human needs that much money.

I know we can agree that they should pay their fair share in taxes.

The fact that billionaires exist is proof that we have failed as a species. It's nice that you're anti-Trump (now), but you supported tax cuts for the rich. You helped get us where we are today. Never forget that.

Billionaires should not exist

There's everything wrong with billionaires having billions. It's fucking obscene for billionaires to exist while others live in squalor. Fucking obscene...

I have a problem with billionaires bribing politicians with dark money to steal from me. Then paying zero taxes so I can pay more in taxes.

Is it wrong if it’s ruinous to democracy?

And to be clear I don't think this is always necessarily the case and I don't think you necessarily need to have less government, but the industrialist have taken over which seems pretty prescient

I think u better take to the streets

Disagree with the first sentence. They certainly shouldn’t be paying lower taxes, and should be contributing to social security fully

There should be a richness ceiling where any further wealth needs to be distributed to the less fortunate. 1 billion should be the ceiling.

Come on...there's something exponentially wrong with billionaires having billions.

Just how much is enough? Where are the true philanthropists? Fix & balance this planet before wasting 💵💰 taking off to another ffs. 🤦🏽‍♀️

A man whose net worth is $1M can have a much higher quality of life than a man whose net worth is $100k. Can the same be said of $1B vs $100M? Both have effectively inexhaustible access to luxuries. What the billionaire has more of is power. And no man ought to be able to buy power.

Respectfully I’d disagree. There’s is absolutely everything wrong with billionaires - the inequality in wealth, which means power, distribution is the underlying cause of almost all conflict. Billionaires existing with folk dying of starvation, ill health, no jobs…. everything is wrong with that.

EVERY YEAR, & we can’t even afford groceries! THAT IS WRONG! Until hoarding money is made illegal in America, & EVERYONE pays taxes, we are in a caste system, with 5 at the top, & the rest of us starving! It’s YOUR political party who got us here, so kindly stop “schooling” us, K?

Then if they want to be Nazi, they can be Nazi without billions of dollars to throw at Naziism.

I have come to the conclusion that there IS something wrong with having billions.

Adam, actually there is something wrong with billionaires having billions. They use it to buy power, which leads to a further accumulation of wealth, which is used to buy even more power. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Hold on. If you have that much more than your fair share, thousands aren't getting enough. Yes there's something wrong with it.

There is something wrong with them not paying their fair share of taxes. I know you know this, Adam. It just is not fair or right.

Nah, there is something very wrong about billionaires having billions. There is no ethical way to be a billionaire.

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How much did the Elon, mom, and kid Air Force One/Marine One trip cost the American people? Who will reimburse us?

I disagree, Colonel. There IS something wrong with billionaires having billions, especially when billions have zero, or close to it. “Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.”

Billionaires are the problem.

Also most billionaires have forgotten the philosophy of giving back as consumers are who made you a billionaire (businesses, sales, stocks & bonds, etc.) They need to start with Carnegie. Build your business and net worth … and SHARE (at least some of) that wealth with those who got you there.

I like Adam, but I think there needs to be a limit somewhere. Elon musk has proven that. I know some billionaires and I truly don’t think they’re all bad people, but at the same time, I feel that there needs to be some point where someone amassed so much personal wealth that it should be taxed 100%.

There is something wrong with gaming the system. For a long time now, these people have used their wealth to buy politicians and the courts. The people have felt the weight of that as prices for everything have skyrocketed out of control. Leaving much of America struggling just to survive.

How many hospitals are libraries has Elon built or supported, that would be none, tells you a lot about a person, come to think about either has Trump

Billionaires are a blight on society. Their mere existence is an affront to human decency.

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There’s a hell of a lot wrong with billionaires having billions.

No person deserves that much wealth, and it inherently leads to political corruption

Do we refuse, because I don’t see enough people taking to the streets. And many right wing circles celebrating others’ misery.

He's a republican

Your comment reflects a disregard for American values as defined by the Founders but then I note that during your time in Congress you did not resolve the growing wealth inequality in the US.

With great income comes great responsibility 🤘

There is PLENTY wrong with “Billionaires having billions” when they are giving Nazi salutes at inaugural celebrations & they are stealing our personal data, stripping our protections & rights, brainwashing the masses, including our children, supporting post Constitution dictatorship. #NQNQ247

There is PLENTY wrong with “Billionaires having billions” while there are 800k+ homeless on the streets while the GOP tees up billions more in tax breaks for the billionaire oligarchs. There is PLENTY wrong with it while Ctizens United v FEC still stands, allowing the purchase of pols. #NQNQ247

With all due respect, Adam, “Billionaires having billions” is the result of inadequately regulated capitalism, which inevitably leads to oligarchy, autocracy/dictatorship & ultimately totalitarianism by its very nature. We are at the autocracy/dictatorship stage. We stop them here & now. #NQNQ247

apparently 70 million americans disagree

Actually, I do think there is something wrong with a person having wealth of a billion dollars or the equivalent value in another currency. In theory, a reason for our capitalist system is for the efficient allocation of resources. Hoarding all that money is not efficient allocation of resources.

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There’s allot wrong with the existence of billionaires

How do you imagine billionaires become billionaires- blessed by the twinkly money market fairy? Billionaires are wrong for us and for themselves as people. www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/stor...

“Show me a fortune and I’ll show you a crime.” Whether it’s regulatory capture and modern corruption of Prescott Bush & pals trying to launch a coup against FDR a century ago the rich are always toxic to democracy.

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The terrible things billionaires are doing to this country is going to lead to a revolution, like it or not, there will be no middle ground. You will be forced to pick a side and either stand with the people or be treated as one of the oligarchs. There will be no “good billionaires.”

It's exploitation. Of people and our planet. They are parasites.

Yup!

pay their share of taxes, tho

Sorry I disagree... The trickle down politics back in the 80's under Regan was a farce it never happened in helping the middle class. That time period is when the rich got richer, and millionaires are now billionaires.

Conservatives, especially the far-right ones, are an existential threat to everyone

All scammers everywhere exist because of people like Donald Trump and Republicans

I disagree Adam! I love you but I disagree this time. Donald Trump is the biggest scammer of all and he stole billions from poor charities and more to get rich and that isn't all, he acts just like most Republicans - THE TRUE PARTY OF THE RICH, no offense to you.

To the first thing you said only if they share those billions

A billionaire moron, a chainsaw, and off his face on ketamine. What could possibly go wrong?

Exactly. If people want to have "billions" in art or NFTs, sure, whatever. You want to claim your one of a kind diamond or watch is worth 50 million? Okay, i guess. But if you end up owning the resources the rest of us need to live, it's not acceptable.

Say what?

I agree, but also democracy has an undeniable interest in limiting wealth disparity. If the any one individual, or small group, gathers more money and power than the state, then the People’s will can be nullified.

Most billionaires make their money off the backs of their workers. They don’t need 100M a year for working 10 hrs a week. So maybe it’s kinda wrong. They are systematically destroying what’s left of the middle class. They want trillionaires, billionaires & poor people. That’s the point of everything

There is a problem of billionaires having excessive billions. The wealth gap is a threat to our society & democracy as they control Congress. Tax the wealthy. Hasn’t trickled down in 40 yrs. They have benefit of living here; infrastructure, educated workforce, safe country.

I guess it depends a bit on they got those billions.

Especially when these billionaires are scumbags. Let’s not skip by the obvious. They are lowlifes, not pillars of the community.

that many billions means corruption and exploitation