Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
the problem is that American evangelicalism has tied money and goodness together with the prosperity gospel.
The more money you have, the more gooderer you are, and all you have to do is give all your money to (church/fund/whatever target) and god will give it back to you three-fold!
and there for, being against money by wanting to tax people means you are big evilsatanbad.
a guy who looks like a sleazy wall street exec, car salesman or television producer doesn’t want to tax rich people???
i never would have guessed!!!
at his best he still looks like an aging patrick bateman.
a big difference between 30+ years ago and now is that the lizards can’t hide their tails; clinton and bush looked like normal american men; this dude just walked out of the bourgeoisie salon and has likely memorized his stylist and publicists cell numbers but probably can’t remember the name of his sons/daughters.
Fuck Newsom. Find me a Californian Mamdani dammit!!!
Yeah, we know. We’ve seen this dog-and-pony show for DECADES.
Fuck newsom in general, but I could see a rational argument that the tax should be national to prevent billionaire Californias from moving to the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe.
And if he’s president, he will say he can’t enact the tax because billionaires would flee the US.
We’ve had the same arguments in France. The economist who proposed the tax actually used data from the US to show that few rich people actually leave the place they’re in, because that’s where they live, meet people for business or pleasure, etc.
This could be evaluated for California too.
Mamdani proved unequivocally that they won’t actually move. Stop giving in to the bullshit billionaires are spouting to try to stop themselves being taxed.
Also, who fucking cares if they leave? Billionaires are a burden to the society and economy of any city or state they live in.
And yes, FUCK NEWSOM! Say it loud and say it proud. NO MORE CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRATS!!!
He’s not arguing for that. He wants a national tax that both isn’t on the ballot and wouldn’t tax billionaires on their wealth.
it wouldn’t help a billionaire avoid california taxes. their income is too diversified.
Good point, let’s vote again in CA after it’s been enacted nationally.
Nothing about Newsom has seemed honest since day 1. He’s just another opportunistic politician.
His hairstyle is so cunty. And when I learned more about him I disliked him more.
5% tax on about 200 Californian billionaires who hold $2.2 trillion in wealth
5% of 2.2 trillion is $11 billion, right?
Jesus that would end poverty.
5% of 2.2 trillion is 0.11 trillion, or 110 billion.
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No way, really?
The guy who changed laws for his rich friends is against his rich friends having to pay comparatively insignificant sum that wont hurt their dragon hordes or its infinite growth in any significant fashion?
You mean this rich well connected individual isn’t going to burn their friends. You don’t say!
That man is the definition of afflueza, which I hear is only cured by Luigi fever or something idk all the weird media labels confuse me
d u h
He had me at no a long time ago when he said he “reveres the state of Israel and is proud to support it”. The guy is corrupt trash and doesnt belong in the party at all. Kick his rightwing ass out.
He’s just reading the room and sees it’s popular now.
Then he should endorse opposition to this: https://ballotpedia.org/California_Prohibit_Taxes_on_Retirement_Holdings_and_Personal_Savings_Amendment_(2026)
Fuckers are now trying to add it to California Constitution so no wealth tax would be possible anymore.
It’s worse, this is Nixon and the EPA all over again.
Or Obamacare even.
They know it’s unavoidable, and if they don’t act something effective might finally happen.
So the oligarchs will pass something that says “tax billionaires” but absolutely no one will fall under it. When a progressive runs on “tax billionaires” everyone will point to this do nothing bill and say it’s already done.
Taking the wind out of the movements sails…
I’d like to say this shit should be obvious, but it’s clearly not for most people.
I’d like to say this shit should be obvious, but it’s clearly not for most people.
Its almost as if decades of attacking education and critical thought was the first step in destroying our democracy or something.
Buddy…
People back in 1969 didn’t put it together either.
1969 people didnt have the total sum of human knowledge and infinite possibilities towards personal improvement and learning in their pocket.
yes, AI and the internet will save us all. Its the modern equivalent to DuPonts “better living through chemistry” slogan.
I love when people reply to what they imagine I posted, instead of what i actually posted.
Yeah, but they said 1909 people didn’t have national TV news…
Not to mention the Internet only tells you someone noticed something, another way to look at that is they had more critical thinking than we do today, because they had to fill in the blanks themselves.
It’s insane how many times I’ve out time into a comment pulling form multiple different areas, and someone’s just says “source” without any context. And a single link that looks like it backs one thing up, is taken as proof for everything.
Just the concept that someone is putting things together is inconceivable to people, that expect one single article that “proves” everything.
It’s really fucking dangerous when a society blindly accepts authority like that, even without a demented fascist running the show.
He’s not even proposing a wealth tax, his suggestion is literally toothless because it focuses on taxing income of billionaires more, which we already know doesn’t work because they don’t make an income.
