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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJonathan Turkey has thoughts on proposed tax policy
(and I used to respect this guy )
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yep the proposals to change US tax law by Pres Biden & Sen Warren is scaring richie riches.
Also he'll now get gigs on those right wing shows.
Carlitos Brigante
(26,501 posts)Junior and Cheney.
hibbing
(10,107 posts)And we all know who won that.
Peace
lapucelle
(18,305 posts)UTUSN
(70,725 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Why can't they just have a free ride forever? It's a reign of terror, it is! Mercy sakes, Jonathan; nobody's putting your wealthy pals in the guillotine. We're saying it's time for them to support - through taxes - the financial, regulatory, and legal frameworks that made them so fabulously rich. Get off the fainting couch, put away your clutching pearls and grow the fuck up.
irisblue
(33,019 posts)Claire Oh Nette
(2,636 posts)Since the "super rich" make up a fairly small number of americans who've benefited from the AMerican System in proportions not commensurate with their accidents of birth or lucky timing in the market, fuck em.
Like the poors bemoaning th eestate tax. Cry me a river when you have to pay 40% on every dollar AFTER you and your spuOse inherit $11,000,000 at 0%. That $40,000 per million after than is really going to crimp their lifestyle.
As for the mobile argument? They're already mobile. If they want access to American markets, including the stock market, they can pony up.
$750 a year??? It's theft. Wage theft. Tax evasion. Greed. Grift.
They can pay up.
demmiblue
(36,875 posts)Rousseau had been dead for 15 years by the time The Terror occurred. Please learn your French history before publishing an article about it in a national newspaper.
Jonathan Turley
Since philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau spoke of eating the rich during the Reign of Terror in 1793, politicians have had an insatiable appetite for class warfare politics. Sen. Warren's "wealth tax" is the latest example. . .
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It's in the first paragraph of his opinion piece at The Hill:
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/544112-elizabeth-warren-fuels-class-warfare-with-new-wealth-redistribution-ideas
cally
(21,596 posts)Oh wait, hes just a bad lawyer
JHB
(37,161 posts)So what did he actually say? Anyone have a screen grab from somewhere?
On edit: Never mind. Kevin Kruse comes to the rescue:
irisblue
(33,019 posts)the dunking was well earned
🏀🗑🏀
WHITT
(2,868 posts)Warren Buffet (who used to be worth more than $60 billion, but he's given a lot away, is still one of the wealthiest people on the planet), said:
BAM.