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Donna McKee's avatar

An excellent idea! I and a few of my friends have been thinking and talking about this for some time, now. Maybe 1 billion should be the threshold that can't be crossed. So, they could make $50m - $99.99m, but no more. I'm in, either way!

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Margaret Anderson's avatar

I've been saying this to people for years the reason the government doesn't have any money and we the public don't have any money it's because they have it all the rich people

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Rain Erickson's avatar

I was going to suggest leaving them 50-100 million. Still, it seems like too much.

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Jessie S.'s avatar

I think the way you do. Exactly. I’ve said this for years. Quietly. Privately. Wondering why the hell no one else was saying it, or not even thinking it.

If Curtis Yarvin can talk about turning the homeless or the “unsavory” into biofuel, well hot damn, we can discuss THIS, a very obvious solution to a wealth hoarding problem. Wealth hoarding is just as sick and weird as the people who hoard garbage, piss in milk jugs, and live amongst the rotting corpses of their many dead critters, trapped under the unlivable heaps of chaos.

Why let them keep $1 B though? End BILLIONAIRES is the message, no? Then turn them into ordinary millionaires. Give ‘em $50 mil. They can live very well on that. Of course, that’s not private jet, island owning, pure evil villain fourth Reich money, but fuck ‘em. And I do mean fuck ‘em. Let them feel just a teensy bit like the “poors” they so despise.

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Dotty's avatar

This actually sounds like about the best plan I've heard since the 60s ...

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Spank Flaps's avatar

Billionaires project their perceived problems onto the working class.

Example - “Tax on tips” was a euphemism for “bankers bonuses”.

Those working class folks who vote Republican, it’s like a gambling addiction. They couldn’t resist betting the house on the wrong horse.

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