Somehow this is really mesmerizing.
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And abandon our, supposed, “world-class” hegemony? Nah, they’ll just putts around like they always do anyways.
The Epstein class deserve to be binned. They're worse than garbage. They're parasites.
I say someone will replace them if their business is needed. If it's not needed then them leaving isn't a threat.
There a clean version of the gif for memeing purposes?
Where to another place where they will pay taxes to play..
Even if it were true who cares? If they aren't actually paying taxes then what is the point in having them?
I think they view us as a bank. We need to make them money or they will transfer to another bank. Simple.
"But look at all the jobs we're creating!"
-Billionaire CEO who just announced a new round of layoffs
Must be an expensive trash bag. I’d be picking egg shells off the lawn after trying that.
American citizens can't escape the tax man. Unless you renounce your citizenship.
And if you're REALLY that scared of a myth, put a progressive exit tax on their wealth. 100% over 1 billion. They built that wealth by exploiting America and its working class, so it's just a repossession at that point.
Love the idea. Don't even need to go after any personal wealth they have, just all the stocks. Chief exploitation manager leaving? Great. Get out. Take your Ferrari and your Villa. Keep it. But you get to stop exploiting people on the same day.
My knee would hurt for a month after a stunt like this.
They’re not doing anything for me. Let them leave.
“This morning we got the updated numbers for fiscal year 2026 for capital gains … it came in at $1.5 billion,” economist Dave Reich told state lawmakers earlier this month. “So a very significant increase, quite a bit above our forecast from what we had before.”
This is understating things by a fair bit. Last year this tax raised $584 million. So the revenue, which is a preliminary figure pending delayed returns, appears to have nearly tripled in one year. It quadrupled from the year before that.
This is not what the critics of tax-the-rich schemes said should happen. They predicted tax proceeds would deteriorate as rich people moved away or structured their finances to avoid paying it.
Yeah, rich people do what they want to do, leaving isn't one of them. They make too much money where they are, why would they leave. They need us way more than we need them
What is it people say? "It doesn't hurt to ask." In this case, billionaires can save a pretty penny by paying a few "influencers" and "intellectuals" to doomsday the tax away. In reality, the pittance they pay in wealth tax is not reason enough for any of them to move.
Even if they have to pay a 5% one-time wealth tax (CA proposal), that's nothing compared to what ordinary people have to pay in taxes, and ordinary people actually need that money.
There’s far fewer of them than us.
They already trying to change California's Constitution to prevent taxing their wealth:
The amendment defines Retirement holdings, individually-owned assets, and other forms of personal savings to include "pensions; retirement accounts, including but not limited to 401 (k) accounts, 403(b) accounts, and all other individual retirement accounts; mutual funds; and all personal property, whether tangible or intangible, including but not limited to financial assets, investment accounts, business interests, digital assets, intellectual property, personal belongings, and other assets used to produce or collect income or savings for retirement or financial planning."
Jesus, that's an Orwellian bill name.
My biggest concern is:
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If no one is declaring opposition, this will definitively pass.
Can we just skip to the eating billionaires part? There are clearly some lessons that need to be made so they may be learned.
I'm even down for them to take their fake money with them, just gtfo
There's a simple truth that more people need to hear.
With a few exceptions, police and the military do not serve billionaires, they serve the State.
The billionaires know this, which is why they work so hard to control or dismantle the State. But they are all cowards and use proxies that can be replaced.
If the people manage to overcome the active resistance to take control of the state, there's very little the billionaires can do when the federal marshalls show up at their door.
Then why aren’t federal Marshall’s showing at the door of every person in the Epstein files?
The billionaires know this, which is why they work so hard to control or dismantle the State. But they are all cowards and use proxies that can be replaced.
Almost all of the biggest billionaires' wealth is stock-based. You want to tax them? Raise the corporate tax rates and close loop-holes and exemptions.
It doesn't matter where they move. Any company that earns money in the country has to pay taxes on that revenue. Its the win-win we don't talk about.
If we're not making money on them, why do we care if they stay? I say pay your part or good riddance!
That garbage bag will eventually rupture spewing its insides everywhere if you do this regularly so do you want that to happen to billionaires too??
