Why don't you want to tax the rich?

[Couchpotato]

You could confiscate the wealth of all billionaires and millionaires and run the country for a few months. Of course the vast majority of all jobs would be gone.

It’s a couple years actually but still a valid point.

 

[candycorn]

By making them pay down the debt. Electing people who aren't full of s**t when it comes to paying off the debt.

Throw the bums out.

You must be joking.

Your blob ran up $8T in new debt the first time around.

You couldn't wait to vote for him again. If given the chance...you'd vote for him a 3rd time.

 

[tahuyaman]

It’s a couple years actually but still a valid point.

No. It’s less than a year.

Confiscating all billionaire wealth in the U.S. (around $7.8 trillion as of late 2025) would provide a significant, but ultimately temporary, boost to government funds, estimated to cover roughly
nine months of federal spending in a single, one-time infusion, not a recurring annual budget. This seizure would face immense economic hurdles, as most wealth isn't cash but illiquid assets like stocks, and liquidating them would crash their market value, drastically reducing the actual revenue, while also crippling innovation and investmen

 

[Concerned American]

You guys need to prepare for sharp and painful tax hikes in 2030 and 2031 when a Democratic trifecta happens in 2029

Dems are gonna be out for revenge, taxes are going to be spiking up throughout the 2030s and no a Republican is not winning in 2028 or 2032.

LOL, yeah, all of those folks who have received windfall increases in minimum wage that took them off of public assistance will get to PAY TAXES in addition to the democrat's inflation and guess what? Their income will be less than what they received when they were getting with the lesser minimum wage AND public assistance. Gee, do you think those poor folks will realize who was responsible?

 

[candycorn]

You want a new Tax on higher incomes. Because that is not how the SS retirement plan works.

No I want people taxed the same.

Why didn't you get your Obidens to do that in 12 years of power?

They failed to do so. This is true.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Childlike speculation at best.

Hardly. It would work if our elected officials had any cojones.

 

[LeftofLeft]

If we tax the rich, they will get mad at us and run away

What would you do if you were footing the majority of the bill at the restaurant and your fellow patrons were running up the tab paying very little or some none at all? And, to add insult to injury, they would admonish you for not “paying your fair share” and then protest the restaurant for giving you a discount or rebate based on how much you pay?

You’d run too.

 

[Kilroy2]

Bezos DOESN'T live there anymore. WA taxes ARE NOT LOW. They tax nicotine products 95%. They tax alcohol more than most states. They have a carbon tax. They have the highest fuel taxes in the nation. They also have a large budget deficit this year in spite of having a balanced budget requirement. WA has also massively reassessed properties the last two years, adding to high taxes. WA also excessively uses excise taxes. Low tax rate? You've been mislead. WA state gov't is worse than CA. Do you live there?

Unfortunately he has muptiple residences that he maintains and moves around.

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[TemplarKormac]

You must be joking.

Your blob ran up $8T in new debt the first time around.

You couldn't wait to vote for him again. If given the chance...you'd vote for him a 3rd time.

You forget the Democrat's role in it.

Let's tone down the invective shall we?

 

[task0778]

If you are opposed, why?

Why do you oppose aggressive taxation of people making more than $250,000+ a year or $400,000+ a year annually?

Just to be clear, we're talking about federal income taxes, right? Is anybody naive enough to believe the gov't can do that without consequences? Really? This has been done several times in different countries with the same results: the big income earners say **** you and they leave for another country. Sweden, France, Great Britain, and other places have all tried to sock it to the rich with the same results. They sell out, pack up, and move to Ireland or somewhere else with a low tax rate. Corporate HQs would move offshore in droves, nobody is going to pay that shit.

Investments would nose dive if the rich people didn't get richer creating new enterprises and expanding existing one. Take away the rewards and nobody will risk their capital, otherwise known as killing the golden goose. Most of the rich folks get their compensation in capital gains; raise that to 80% and see what happens. Economic Armageddon. I wish I could think of his name, but some 40 years ago or so a guy did a study on tax rates and revenues; it turns out that when rates go up the revenue pretty much doesn't and that's cuz the rich folk adjust their investment behavior to avoid paying higher taxes.

 

[leftwinger]

You must be joking.

Your blob ran up $8T in new debt the first time around.

You couldn't wait to vote for him again. If given the chance...you'd vote for him a 3rd time.

Nonsense spew at best. Your boys shut the nation down using a man-made virus. Lying in the media, killing elderly, those on ventilator. Re-classifilying deaths. You really sucketh massive black crank. Wow!

 

[LeftofLeft]

Economic policies rooted in class envy and wealth redistribution are never successful.

 

[tahuyaman]

Everyone should pay the same tax. Not the same rate, but the actual same amount. With that payment comes the ability to cast a vote in elections.

That would be truly fair. That way the poor man’s taxes carries the same weight as the rich man’s

 

[Couchpotato]

No. It’s less than a year.

You’re wrong. The combined wealth of all US millionaires is around 26 trillion dollars.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Right?

So that makes for an adequate punishment, then. Does it not?

He can't control all of the other 534 members of Congresses votes, can he?

Do you not know how this shit works?

 

[candycorn]

Nonsense spew at best. Your boys shut the nation down using a man-made virus. Lying in ghe media, killing elderly. Those on ventilator. Re-classifilying deaths. You really sucketh massive black crank. Wow!

None of that happened except your craving for black crank...that is a constant.

 

[TemplarKormac]

We could actually vote for someone who tells us that hard times are coming.

You elected Biden, not I.

He spoke of prosperity but brought fiscal pain to the middle class. There is one of the main reasons he was elected. Morality tends to take a back seat when it comes to personal and familial survival.

You got angry about egg prices with Trump. So totally out of touch.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

You guys need to prepare for sharp and painful tax hikes in 2030 and 2031 when a Democratic trifecta happens in 2029

Dems are gonna be out for revenge, taxes are going to be spiking up throughout the 2030s and no a Republican is not winning in 2028 or 2032.

You never told us you were a professional comedian!

 

[candycorn]

You forget the Democrat's role in it.

Let's tone down the invective shall we?

You forget that every dollar spent was done with Trump's signature. The democrats had no role in it--he has to approve every dollar spent. Its rather humorous that you're now worried about spending after re-electing someone that ran up $8T in debt.

Lets tone down your dishonesty, shall we?

 

[pknopp]

Those super rich who did so by "making their own money" did no such thing. People are as rich as they are because of the trillions pumped into the markets and absolutely no one worked to make that.