They’re not doing anything for me. Let them leave.

Even if it were true who cares? If they aren't actually paying taxes then what is the point in having them?

They already trying to change California's Constitution to prevent taxing their wealth:

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Prohibit_Taxes_on_Retirement_Holdings_and_Personal_Savings_Amendment_(2026)

WA’s rich are leaving? Another tax on wealth smashes records by tripling the amount coming in from last year

“This morning we got the updated numbers for fiscal year 2026 for capital gains … it came in at $1.5 billion,” economist Dave Reich told state lawmakers earlier this month. “So a very significant increase, quite a bit above our forecast from what we had before.”

This is understating things by a fair bit. Last year this tax raised $584 million. So the revenue, which is a preliminary figure pending delayed returns, appears to have nearly tripled in one year. It quadrupled from the year before that.

This is not what the critics of tax-the-rich schemes said should happen. They predicted tax proceeds would deteriorate as rich people moved away or structured their finances to avoid paying it.

The Epstein class deserve to be binned. They're worse than garbage. They're parasites.

Can we just skip to the eating billionaires part? There are clearly some lessons that need to be made so they may be learned.

You know how billionaires always compete in having the most expensive house, yacht, space company or whatever.

Make them complete over the most expensive country to live in for billionaires. Show of your wealth by living here!

Gary Stevenson would like a word in.

He is quite clear that yes they can leave, and we can tax them at the point where money is created instead of abroad where we have no influence.

They can move, but their properties remain over here

This is the funny thing: Realistically they won't leave, they would simply leverage their wealth to support opposing parties, prop up their own political marionettes, invest their money in campaigns to ruin the credibility of their adversaries or simply letting them disappear as a measure of last resort.

Somehow this is really mesmerizing.

Must be an expensive trash bag. I’d be picking egg shells off the lawn after trying that.

Great, this way money will circulate in the economy again instead of getting hoarded by a small minority

I say someone will replace them if their business is needed. If it's not needed then them leaving isn't a threat.

Fucking kill them already, they're killing my country! I hope they suffer a lot and that their corpses be thrown on some vomit/poop pit.

There’s far fewer of them than us.

I'll help them pack.

If we're not making money on them, why do we care if they stay? I say pay your part or good riddance!

That garbage bag will eventually rupture spewing its insides everywhere if you do this regularly so do you want that to happen to billionaires too??

I'm even down for them to take their fake money with them, just gtfo

God I hope so. Maybe they'll all get in a rocket and try to leave Earth. A girl can dream

Will they promise to leave?

They make/made their money off of us. Don't let them just leave with it.

Where to another place where they will pay taxes to play..

There's a simple truth that more people need to hear.

With a few exceptions, police and the military do not serve billionaires, they serve the State.

The billionaires know this, which is why they work so hard to control or dismantle the State. But they are all cowards and use proxies that can be replaced.

If the people manage to overcome the active resistance to take control of the state, there's very little the billionaires can do when the federal marshalls show up at their door.

There a clean version of the gif for memeing purposes?

My knee would hurt for a month after a stunt like this.

And abandon our, supposed, “world-class” hegemony? Nah, they’ll just putts around like they always do anyways.

Gonna need much bigger cans, a whole lot of bags, and a dull, rusty bone saw.

indeed

Almost all of the biggest billionaires' wealth is stock-based. You want to tax them? Raise the corporate tax rates and close loop-holes and exemptions.

It doesn't matter where they move. Any company that earns money in the country has to pay taxes on that revenue. Its the win-win we don't talk about.

If the US actually taxed someone like Bezos a fair amount to narrow the wealth gap, Bezos would just go to another country that will gladly accept his enormous amounts of money and help him move his assets & businesses over. The US would then lose a very large chunk of money, and as we all know, the US wants to be "The BEST country in the world", so that's not something they'd willingly let happen.

Maybe it's not that simple, but I think that's the general reason we haven't seen the ultra-rich tax increases we all want. The politicians like money, the rich like political power, and the US wants to be the biggest and bestest. Just like a peanut butter jelly sandwich, you can't seperate the peanut butter & the jelly once they're put together.