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haha the US government is internally the most bitch made country in the west. When asked, an artist will depict a congressman straddling the average citizen, and the congressman is in turn being straddled by an executive.
Even foreign interests discuss the odd “fuckable” or “breedable” US politician, in how far they would bend over backwards for money. Photos of certain congressman photoshopped over a Japanese maids body have been circulating the UN.
This is just false. Those are the income tax rates for highest earners. Billionaires’ wealth is mostly tied up in stocks, property, and other investments. Someone like Jeff Bezos does not have $196bln in his bank account, like you and I have a few $100.
If we want to really tax billionaires, we need a wealth tax on any homes you own after your first, luxury cars, private planes and yachts, a passive tax on holding stock and stock options, and also clamp down on tax loop holes.
I love the people who claim things like “they just have stock! Not money!!” Great, I’ll take $10 billion in stock please. Should be no problem since it isn’t real.
Money isn’t real either so…
Sure is easy to trade it for things that are real.
As are stocks, just it does not apply to you so you are aginst it.
You’ve evidently entirely misunderstood what I said. My entire point has been that stocks are worth money and I’m not sure what this “does not apply to you so you’re against it” is supposed to mean. I never said I was “against” stocks and whether I or my family own any is not only something you’d not know, but is also irrelevant.
My point was that when people say something like “Elton doesn’t have $200 billion, it’s just stock!” they’re acting like stocks aren’t real. I’m not.
