Bring back pre-Reagan tax rates on the rich.
this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2026
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It's just 5% of his wealth. Most people give anything from 20% to 50% of their annual income to taxes and will pay income taxes on all their retirement savings when they pull it.
This is why there should be no billionaires.
let's make him own 1300 Billion.
Another rich tax cheat parasite like Zuckerberg and Musk.
We need to make readily available MANPAD blueprints using easily obtained materials.
There is no private jet that shouldn't be shot out of the sky. You don't need billions to make rich people live in fear. You just need labor.
The math is always easy on these things - the millions paid to fight progress is always a fraction of what they expect to lose if it passes, making it simple to know why they oppose these changes instead of the nonsense propaganda they spread.
There is plenty of millionaires that want to be taxed more, billionaire wealth hoarders are psychopaths though
They don't want to pay because most net worth over a couple hundred million is straight up made up. He couldn't get 13billion liquid if he tried nor could most billionaires.
I wonder if he's tried not ordering avocado toast and making coffee at home
Exactly. Because that money does not actually exist anywhere other than in their imaginations.
Still, fuck ‘em. Just like they’ve been fucking the rest of us for decades.
Sounds like a skill issue to me.
13 / 0.05 = 260
He has $260 Billion?!
Yeah, spread that around. He wasn't doing more than playing around with Google Glass 10 years ago, coming up with Google (and then doing his best to sabotage it) isn't worth that by a long shot.
That 5% return on 260. He’ll never know it’s gone.
A billion here. A billion there. Pretty soon, you're talking about a lot of money.
The dirty truth is that it's far cheaper to bribe officials not to tax you then it is to pay taxes.
It's California. He won't lose while Gavin Newsom and his friends are in power.
Unfortunately, based on the polling, it sounds like it's been working. Fuck this stupid wealth worshipping culture.
Welfare Queen
It's easy to tell who government serves; The rulers are the ones paying the least taxes.
You can tell when our government "sold out"; it's when taxes were cut severely (for billionaires) way back in the 80s by Reagan and Republican party
You can tell the Democrats are in on it because they never restore those taxes (which they could do whenever they'd like).
Probably tax deductions too.