How many of them refuse deductions so they pay more?Bullshit. There are a lot of guys like my brother who make over $400,000 a year. And a lot of them don't mind a little tax hike. They're pretty confident people. But these broke Republicans make every argument why they should pay less not more. Meanwhile we're broke and need to fix our roads.There just isn't that much wealth at the top. It would cost untold trillions to give free housing and healthcare to all and to implement the green new deal. You would only get a small fraction of that if you tried to confiscate ALL the wealth from the people at the top, and you could only do it once.Here’s how much these billionaires would pay under Sen. Bernie Sanders’ proposed “Make Billionaires Pay Act”:
-Jeff Bezos $42.8B
-Elon Musk $27.5B
-Mark Zuckerberg $22.8B
Stop saying “we can’t afford” Homes for All, Green New Deal or Medicare for All.
If we didn't spend trillions on endless wars and tax breaks for millionaires, we could afford to house our homeless, care for our seniors, and save our planet.
We suffer from greed, not scarcity
1. They would see it coming and move their money, and perhaps themselves, to another, friendlier nation that would welcome them and their wealth with open arms.
2. Once you've confiscated all the wealth, there's no more to confiscate and you're relegated to hitting the middle class, who always ends up getting hit anyway. This is the inevitable result of all socialistic schemes, they run out of other peoples' money, usually pretty quickly and poverty ensues for all but the Bernies at the top.
And let's talk about this "little tax hike". How much of a tax increase do you think needs to be put on those making 400K/year that would allow us to "fix our roads"? Be precise.
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