Heck, I’d be satisfied with actual work that is effective for the companies they supposedly run so well.
Not merely effective at putting more money in their pockets, I hasten to add.
Heck, I’d be satisfied with actual work that is effective for the companies they supposedly run so well.
Not merely effective at putting more money in their pockets, I hasten to add.
Crossing this here.
And the funny sunglasses!
I know it’s a meme, not a balance sheet, but I’m not convinced about the math here. The combined net worth of every billionaire in the US is around $3.5T. If we’re taxing wealth outright, which is a lot more than taxing income over the year, 2% of $3.5T = $70B. That’s around $200 per American. And that doesn’t sound like enough to achieve all those things.
The larger point - tax the rich - still stands.
Thanks for the correction. I suppose the meme would make more sense if it had room to include corporations.
Aha! That would make more sense.
Oh god, I didn’t notice those. What a tool.
I’ll concede that it’s harder to tax wealth than income, but setting that aside, why only 2%? I would suggest something closer to 30% or so, although specifics could vary. Obviously we need a increase in taxes on earnings (not income) over a certain point ($10M? $50M?) with an increasingly steep slope as earnings approach a higher set value. (e.g., Earnings over $100M/year are taxed at 99%.)
Yeah, I know that they’ll still find ways to hide the earnings or get around the taxes in other ways, but that’ll take a while and it’s not like the tax code should be static anyway.