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The Earther who even the OPA recognize as "Hold on, this guy gets it, he stays". There's James Fucking Holden, then there's Amos, just Amos. The guy went native pretty quickly; he's more OPA than Fred ever could be, and he's barely politically literate.

If the rich get any richer, the phrase will be changed from "Tax the Rich" to "Eat the Rich." For fellow sci-fi fans, I see an Eloi/Morlock situation brewing...

They've been spouting this bullshit for decades, as ling as we've had taxes. Almost all of the ultra-rich are anti-social, unamerican sociopaths. I wouldn't piss on them if theu were on fire.

There is no reason for a person wealth to go beyond 1 billion, before that, fine, get your bag. After that, is in a way wasted money hoarded around doing nothing, not circulating, not stimulating the world economy as the definition of capitalism says (on paper).

We should quit trying to tax anyone whose net worth is, say, $50 million or higher. They have armies of lawyers and lobbyists to game the system they rigged. We ought to demand cash from them on an annual basis and give them the death penalty for non-compliance. Musk: $100 billion now.

The thing is, those who push "Tax the rich" don't mean to increase their taxes a little, so they still live in luxury! They believe that people shouldn't be allowed to run businesses and that how much money they are allowed to make should be dictated!

To them, money isn't real. Their "net worth" number is like a high score, and they want the highest number. They don't like it when the government "takes more". Many also don't like to pay for things, or even pay their bills. Some use bankruptcy to legally walk away from bills, legally.

They don't really understand that taxing them is the least of what could happen to them. I think French Revolution is probably the worst that could happen to them and it's not like it's hard to find a filthy rich persons address.

Not sure that is true, the guillotine was invented as a more humane way to behead someone. As opposed to axes where they might need several strikes to get through the neck.

I'm starting to think they would prefer the guillotine. A life where you can't hoard wealth you'll never spend, while also oppressing the peasantry, poor, and disabled, is not a life they want to live

Out of touch smoothed brained assholes the lot of them. Billionaires literally have so much money even if their taxed higher they'll still have more money then they'll ever know what to do with. You've had your time billionaires stop making us pay!!

I agree with the idea, but practically there's too great a chance of spreading prion diseases such as Kuru, or Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, no matter how well cooked the meat is. Alas the rich are just as toxic when dead as they are when alive.

I'd have to do a lot more research on human fertiliser vs prion diseases, but would imagine it to be at least lower risk. And rather the way I'd like my body disposed of if possible. Recycling my corpse to feed the little orchard that's fed me seems well in accordance with the way.

I gawped like a goddamn goldfish, but I still ain't got a reply... Mmes bright sometimes stupid daughter was so desperate to drive to college with her BFF (so they could get high) flopped around in the minivan and screamed, "I know how the Slaves in the Slave ships felt!" I've not been so shocked.

I have no idea what my stupid autocorrect did. I meant "my" sometimes stupid daughter... You should have heard what I said when she touted Williamson over HRC. They have reason to be pissed. Imagine how much I suffered during their teens...

I know a surprising number of millionaires, and there is such a thing as "rich person poor" where you, horror of horrors, might have to touch your principal.

In Florida when a hurricane runs through the old wealthy can't do for themselves. It's a great way to even out the wealth. Want your roof tarped. It's gonna cost you, or you can do it yourself.

There is this German song by Knorkator I really like called "Milliardäre" (literally "billionaires"). It's one of my favorites, and I feel it's capturing the essence of this comic perfectly! The lyrics essentially go something like this:

"The world doesn't need any billionaires - and we don't even need any guns to make that happen. We're neither gonna kill you, nor lock you up. Quite the opposite: You'll all become millionaires!"

You are not an American or anything close to patriotic. Spending decades behaving this way is criminal and cause to seize assets and to be deported and never allowed to return.

If you have more than 10,000,000. & you would rather pay white Nationalist, hate groups, several foundations, talk radio, podcasts, cable news stations and politicians to divide Americans and make them believe the other side is to blame for all life’s many issues, instead of paying your taxes

Life’s a bitch, then you die. It’s hard to suffer having a $500 million dollar yacht, a $100 million dollar villa, a$80 million dollar home, tailor made clothes, and the finest food money can buy. All the while not giving raises to employees, cutting health benefits and jobs. Must be hard.

You find #TaxTheRich offensive? We also! Taxation of the 1% is so much 90s. Today is #PitchforksOut! Today is #EatTheRich! The 1% gave us #Trump and #Putin and Millions of deaths. Kill them!

Calls to tax the rich are akin to racial slurs? Really? Somebody can say that with a straight face? Then they have no idea what a racial slur actually is or sounds like. And these pathetic rich people have enough money that they couldn't sped it all in three lifetimes - but won't pay equal taxes.

Yeah. Any activity that doesn't earn money is judged as stupid and useless. It's sad, really I've read account of a dude that got a good passive income, traveled the world, and then freaked out because living it up was "wasting his time" so he got back to the grind for money he didn't need. smh.

Because they think they are the master race. Tax the rich. Close the loopholes. Hike the capital gains tax. Repeal Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy. Raise the corporate tax. Eliminate the income ceiling on social security contribution. Tax the billionaires like It's the 1950's.

A little bit of demonization is necessary, because we've spent the last 40 years (at least) idolizing them. I suspect even the average Democrat starts with the assumption that the wealthy deserve what they have. We need to start moving that needle back in time.

Then they pack up their bags and move to another state, and now that state becomes crippled financially because it's getting absolutely nothing from the said billionaires at all. Forcing them to tax everyone else even harder to compensate. At least, this is what I've been seeing more and more of.

The feed has been slowly popping up over the years, but I do recall seeing articles about business in California having business moving out to Texas. Not taxed per say, but I recall a more recent article about Amazon moving out of NY due to a bill to force them to hire delivery drivers.

It's beyond absurd how half of this country doesn't understand that running a country is expensive and so we tax people; and also that it makes a whole lot more sense to get that money from the people who have enough for 100 lifetimes rather than taking it from people barely getting by.

Need a “win a prize,” approach to taxes for billionaires. 25% tax on income above $5M/year when your net worth exceeds $50M Fund teachers, veteran healthcare, green energy, infrastructure, mental health facilities, free clinics

A billionaire is a millionaire a thousand times over. There is no function on this planet that cannot ever ever ever be accomplished by an individual holding more than $50M. Anything and everything beyond that is absurdity.

"I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible… except by getting off his back." - Leo Tolstoy

Why do you TAX THE RICH people think that they would sit there and let the Gov. "TAX" away their wealth? If you could move anywhere at anytime, why would stay where you are & get a NEW TAX every Day?. Then they keep pushing a Death Tax. So much for generational wealth. Can't even give to your Kids!

Man, it is IMPRESSIVE as to how many moots are reskeeting this. I know we seem to be praying to an algorithm rather than gods when we boost things on Social Media, but let that action diffuse into the consciousness of those who hm and hmph at raw data to let them shift their expectations into duty.