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Fortune Magazine, WaPo: Won't Someone PLEASE Think Of The Billionaires?
https://www.wonkette.com/p/fortune-magazine-wapo-wont-someoneYour heart just breaks for them.
Earlier this week, Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna introduced a new bill that would make this country a much nicer place for everyone to live, at the expense of taxing billionaires 5 percent a year -- an amount that, as billionaires, they could not possibly miss or even notice is gone.
Now, I think this is a pretty great idea. In fact, I think it should be more than that -- both because we need it to fund our country and take care of our people, and because, at a certain point, all that is left to buy for these people is power that no individual person should have.
But over at Fortune magazine, they have a slightly different take, as you may be able to surmise from the headline "Bernie Sanders' billionaire tax would soak about 900 people to fund $3,000 checks for the middle class."
You know, they tried so hard -- what with the "soak" and all -- but it still does not quite tug at one's heartstrings the way I imagine they intended. Largely because of the whole "$3000 check" thing.
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Unsurprisingly, the editorial board of the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post, which is now fully in its Breitbart era, was even more critical of the bill, which they hilariously claim "would strangle America's golden goose."
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Now, I think this is a pretty great idea. In fact, I think it should be more than that -- both because we need it to fund our country and take care of our people, and because, at a certain point, all that is left to buy for these people is power that no individual person should have.
But over at Fortune magazine, they have a slightly different take, as you may be able to surmise from the headline "Bernie Sanders' billionaire tax would soak about 900 people to fund $3,000 checks for the middle class."
You know, they tried so hard -- what with the "soak" and all -- but it still does not quite tug at one's heartstrings the way I imagine they intended. Largely because of the whole "$3000 check" thing.
. . .
Unsurprisingly, the editorial board of the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post, which is now fully in its Breitbart era, was even more critical of the bill, which they hilariously claim "would strangle America's golden goose."
. . .
Lots of examples that the staff/writers at Fortune and WaPo aren't very good at math.
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