He really won’t like what people replace ‘tax’ with if they’re not allowed to say “tax the rich.”
Wealth inequality is killing quality if life. We would like to put that wealth to productive use through taxation and government investments, but setting it on fire (metaphorically) would still leave the average person better off.
If we can’t tax it or destroy it, then people will be pushed further and further until they have nothing to lose, and after that, things will get ugly.
Roth on Tuesday stressed the significant contributions of the city’s wealthiest residents to its tax base and said these members of the so-called one-percent are “not enemies” and are “at the top of the great American economic pyramid for a reason.”
There it is. The “we’re better than you and deserve more” conceit.
That reason: they are so pathologically greedy that they grubbed up way more money than anyone could need and more than anyone else around.
And that grubbing explicitly is stealing from the people who actually create the money, the workers.
Interesting how they’re there for being stains on humanity, but they think they’re special.
I wonder how he feels about “eat the rich”.
Fuck him.
Reading this as the Aerosmith song blasts bc my anarchist small child demanded to watch the music video before school right now!
Tax the rich is the moderate stance to eat the rich.
No not at all. How can you compare making people pay taxes they owe with people talking about eating them.
Let there be millionaires and billionaires, but they have to pay a lot of taxes for how much they get.
Some billionaires pay less in taxes a year then poor people do.
Haha wow he really tried to throw some antisemitism in there too.
“I must say that I consider the phrase tax the rich — […] to be just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs, and even the phrase ‘from the river to the sea,’” Roth said.
I think you get a good peek into the psyche of powerful people when they use inappropriate terms from marginalized communities as a shield against just actions or comments made against them. It implies they see those genuine complaints from minorities as something merely performative - a tool for sympathy, a shield from criticism. It reveals narcissism and a lack of empathy.
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Israelis are not a marginalized community for the record despite their victim playing, but I take your point.
Is he implying that he believes “rich = Jewish”? Because if so, how anti-semitic of him.
I have no qualms with working-class Jews.
Likewise, I think all billionaire oligarchs need to be taxed at higher rates. (Currently they’re taxed less than the working class; being compelled to pay your fair share isn’t prejudicial!). Race/ethnicity/religion simply doesn’t factor into it.
Well, then you’ll like this even less:
eat the rich
Wealthy people hoard wealth to the detriment of the rest of society causing poverty, crime, death, and destruction. Billionaires shouldn’t exist, taxing is only 1 option.
Some of them were born this way I suppose lol. They are a self-selected group of greedy people. There has never been an easier group to vilify, because they are literally villains, hoarding resources that others desperately need
Imagine thinking you’re better than others because you’re good at amassing wealth.
Everywhere around you people are suffering but because of your innate superiority you are not only not suffering, you have far more than you could ever hope to need, and you cling to it white-knuckled like it’s going to stand up and walk away.
Congratulations, you are the smelliest sphincter.
The interesting thing is that the media trained us to admire these people, and listen with bated breath to their advice. When in fact they are the last people we should ask for any kind of moral guidance. Their greed has made literally every major societal issue worse. Fortunately, I think that illusion is dissolving, and more and more it’s a majority opinion that the rich are too rich and it needs to stop. Lots of disagreement on how to stop it, unfortunately
They are all psychopaths.
Us: You have way too much money, we should share it more equitably so people don’t starve and stuff.
Them: You have done me a racism.
But what If they need it to buy something? Like a small country?
I can hardly wait for the guillotines to get sharpened up
…I suspect it will come as a surprise to many of the lizard people that they bleed just like us plebes
Except there is waaaaay more of us, and we have had enough of their baby eating and child raping
Baby eating…?
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The child rape is common knowledge at this point. Not as many people know about the baby eating.
Apparently I angered them greatly. What are they even talking about regarding “baby eating”?
There were a few bits in the Epstein Files about Satanic sacrificing and eating of babies.
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You literally didn’t make sense in either comment. You’re mad because I have zero clue what you’re referring to?
I am not mad at you, I don’t give a fig about you
Now the baby eating ,child-raping lizard people, them I’m mad at
Your deleted comment suggests you were mad at me. Thanks for your help
Ps. Are the lizard people in the room with you right now?
The mods deleted it, not me
As I said, I don’t give a fig about you
cheers
I know all that. You still told me to “fuk off” and no one alive would be able to figure out why
Statements like this from people like him just tell me that they are scared.
Not nearly scared enough!
Wow. He has a real god complex thinking he should be “praised and thanked.” Next he’ll be mandating that his name should not be used in vain.
Crikey, that parasite is really going to be really upset about my "guillotine the rich’ policy!!
Though there’s a lot to be said about the “woodchipper the rich” argument…
We need to return to tradition:
Draw and Quarter the Rich.
Perfect this goddamned country is full of racists, redirecting their energy to call the billionaire scum out on being the scum they are perfect… If the poor billionaire thinks it’s racist they can easily solve the problem by not being billionaires.
