rbreich ,
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America's 813 billionaires now collectively hold a record $5.8 trillion.

That’s more than the wealth of the entire bottom half of the US, roughly 65 million households.

It's not radical to tax the rich. It's radical to allow this level of wealth concentration to continue.

davidcorbett ,
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@rbreich the rich are me me me mine mine mine take take take hoard hoard hoard abuse abuse abuse enslave enslave enslave in poverty wage and kill kill kill the plants n animals oxygen supply carbon cleaning from the plants means killing the home = the planet means killing many humans eventually

artisanrox ,
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@rbreich

that few # of people should never hold that much ffffn proportional money. Christ.

Sassinake ,
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@rbreich

the purpose of $$$ is to buy power.

The purpose of power is impunity.

VedaDalsette ,
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@rbreich I'm sure the billionaires who own Congress will get right on this.

gsymon ,
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@rbreich

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jul/03/bernie-sanders/bernie-sanders-target-saying-3-richest-have-much-w/

gumpfloyd ,
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@rbreich And that greed will continue.They continue to rig it to make it so.

jcriecke ,
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@rbreich there needs to be a better way than taxing unrealized gains. That’s going to cause problems.

Colby ,
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@rbreich when us minions get sufficiently angry about that imbalance, and the climate catastrophe it’s fed, perhaps we’ll finally do something to correct it. I sure hope we get there soon

ubiquiti_fanatic ,
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@rbreich we had a chance to change this two years ago but there was just too many other bills that needed passing 🙄

KarunaX ,
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@rbreich
Robert Reich reports that the ultra wealthy have got even more wealthy, while the poor have gotten poorer. And yes, one option is to tax the rich. But if that can't be done, we need other options.

ralf ,
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@rbreich yawn neo-feudalism

grumble209 ,
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@rbreich until the rich *want *to pay their taxes.

dibi58 ,

@rbreich

this wealth concentration goal is to make slavery great again to replace oil ...

olbohlen ,
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@rbreich irony bonus points to you, “Reich” in German does mean “rich” ;)

LanguageMan1 ,

@rbreich If I ever get to the point of making $10 million plus per year I would still say that I don't mind if I have to payout 39-45% in taxes because it's nothing at that level. I hope that I get there and beyond and can help others to get there as well.

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