Vyvyan Basterd3d ago

Bezos on CNBC: "You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens. I promise you."

I love how we all accept this as truth, or as part of a "debate", when taxing the fuck out of them - even a "kind" regime where they're still unfathomably rich - would yield so much money for health care, infra, and so much more

Show threadVyvyan Basterd
there is literally no world where closing the capital gains loophole and taxing the fuck out of incomes over, say, 1 billion would not result in a manifestly better world for everyone. If you get huge waste and fraud you still come out ahead! That's a lot of money!
May 20 at 4:19pmWeb
Show threadSpeed demon 🇪🇺 🇳🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸3d ago
@neurobashing Could even use some of it to go after waste and fraud. It's not like Trump's "small government" is actually free of it.
Show threadBo Tally3d ago
@neurobashing A single billionaire will not visit a restaurant often enough to keep it in business. 10000 folks making $100,000 can support lots of restaurants.
Show threadCassandrich3d ago
@neurobashing You could even literally just burn all the money you take from them, without redistributing it, and we'd still all be vastly better off. Because they would no longer be able to spend it doing harm to us all.
Show threadsarcoptus scabium3d ago
@neurobashing the waste and fraud is already happening, this just means regular people can have a go, instead of keeping the waste and fraud behind a paywall.