Bitch, taxing the rich is the humane option
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I feel like Mr. Roth has forgotten that being taxed is the alternative we came up with to beheadings for the upper class when they got too rich and powerful.
Perhaps he would prefer “Eradicate the rich.”
(Through even more taxation, of course.)
Or guillitines. Or Luigi. Look, I'm not really picky on how we make the streets flow with a river of their blood. Dealers choice really.
"He will learn over time that growing a tax base is a winner and raising taxes is a loser … and that the hard-working 1% are allies, not enemies.”
Translation: "we're still working on finding ways to make him do our bidding"

Guillotine the rich
Just to highlight that as a real estate magnate, his entire empire is built on rent-seeking, i.e. accumulating wealth by the hoarding of a limited resource, without having created anything of value.
This billionaire did not create a billion dollars of value for society, even indirectly; he only took it from others.
He views the Rich as a separate ethnic group.
from wiki:
An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of humans who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Attributes that ethnicities believe to share include language, culture, common sets of ancestry, traditions, society, religion, history, or social treatment.
He's mostly right, but that doesn't invalidate criticisms of the Rich.
Finally, a morally and ethically acceptable group to do ethnic cleansing on!
That’s like admitting they live in a completely different world. That’s what blows my mind. By implication, he’s admitting the wealthy exist in a completely separate reality. That the shadow economy is real, and that the average person is effectively a second-class citizen. It’s an acknowledgment that it is, and maybe always has been, us versus them. I've always said they exist in a completely different world, one that operates on different rules than the rest of us. More than just the obvious. Everything you posted, culture, norms, ancestry, history. They will never change to help you. They will always operate from a place of exploitation. It's their culture. They made it so.
For all intents and purposes, they have become Battlefield Earth aliens or Morlocks.
I think it's more that he views anyone not rich as not human. Only him and his rich friends are actually people and the plebeian masses should defer to them as such.
"TAX" is going to be the softest, most palateable verb that will be done to them, the alternatives are a little less polite.
“Oh, would you prefer ‘torture and execute’ then?” Lmao
My favourite phrase, or at least one that's given me a glimmer of hope for the future is "They will have to invent a new word for what the people are going to do to those responsible."
Torture And eXecute
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 billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
From the crowd that came up with gems as "bank accounts are citizenship", "transactions are free speech" and "attorney fees are justice". Comes the latest madness "tax is a hate crime".
"Tax the rich" is putting it very nicely.
They've dehumanized themselves with their monstrous exploitation.
Bring back the tax brackets from the 1960's. That should solve the problems. Fucking Ronnie Reagan and his deregulation.
"Tax the rich" is the 99% being nice. We could go the France in 1792 route.
You're the best! Thank you so much for exploiting thousands of employees and customers to acquire a stupendous fortune!
He doesn't realize that this perspective proves exactly what he thinks of his employees and customers... to him they are nothing more than a despised, but necessary, resource to exploit ruthlessly.
Also, let's remember that his tax rate is much lower than that of an Arby's employee. Hateful and disgusting indeed
Man with more money than he could possibly use in his life is upset at the suggestion that some portion of the money he will never used could be used to help other people.
Being a billionaire is a sign of mental illness and needs to start being treated as such.
Tax is the compromise
The French have a good historical case for what should happen if that fails
It's true. I am bigoted against the wealthy. Proudly.
Mamdani is choosing the lesser evil here my dear rich person... The other options is: we kill you.
Rich is not a race. It’s not a characteristic that you’re born with.
The worst often are born with it.
But it's a mutable attribute
I can see if we make this argument, they will then say the same thing about being poor. And then take it further to say the poor should not be a protected class and therefore should not receive extra benefits. (I know this is not what protected class typically refers to, but I can see them making these arguments.)
off with his head
Is "guillotine" a softer word? We could and should just use that instead. I'm all about catering to the elites' baby soft thin skin.
Quite unlikely that any of his ancestors worked the cotton fields. He probably thinks he's a self made man.
What a little pathetic bitch. Eat the rich
Just got a weird Clayton Bigsby feel from your comment, only instead of him saying 'white power' quietly at the end of his shouting, I thought of someone ranting about the harm rich people do continually ending their bellowing with a short, fast, calm, "Eat the rich" as a contrast at the end of any sentence. For example:
"BILLIONAIRES COULD BUILD A DOZEN STRAY ANIMAL SHELTERS FOR THE COST OF ONE OF THEIR YACHTS, BUT THEY'RE TOO SELFISH! THE ONLY ANIMAL THEY CARE ABOUT ... IS THEMSELVES! Eat the rich".
"NINE DOLLARS FOR A CUP OF COFFEE?! NINE DOLLARS COULD PAY FOR A STUDENT'S BREAKFAST AND LUNCH! Eat the rich".
"OW! I STUBBED MY GODDAMN TOE! Eat the rich".
- Overwhelmingly rich isn't a race
- There are ways to solve being rich
- There are other options if you don't like those but bring a pillow for your head to land on.
Won't someone think of poor Ken Griffin??
There's only 700 billionaires in America, and I think we should kill every single one.
I think we can make an exception for Gaben
Eh...acceptable collateral
I hear what you're saying, but counterpoint:
I'd prefer Steam's helpdesk staff were paid more, and their janitors, and their contractors, and anyone else involved in making that business work. Gabe doesn't NEED a new yacht. Some of the people working for him do NEED healthcare.
Gabe is definitely on the not-a-monster side of the billionaire spectrum, but you don't get that much money with purely your output. You get lucky and have a good idea at the right time, inherit, or rent-seek. Two of those are stupid reasons to have immense wealth, and I don't think getting lucky is worth the vast gulf between billionaire and struggling-to-get-by.
I think if we could have a wealth cap... say 10 billion right now, an absurd sum, where it's almost impossible to even spend it all... and after you pass that amount you get fed to a wood chipper; then we would see a lot fewer billionaires and a better world.
It's been entirely too long since there's been a tarring and feathering in these parts.
"We want you to pay your fair share of taxes to maintain the system you enjoy the benefits and protection of." = slur?
Eat all of my shit and hair, Steve Roth. You sound like a real turd of a human being.
Tax or eat, Steve, tax or eat!
Let's not get in a binary head space - there are tons of options in-between!
ok.
if "tax the rich" isn't enough, maybe this will send a stronger message.

is this loud enough you old rich fuck?
or maybe this is more your speed?




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