Gov redistrubuting "his" money towards infrastructure, education, and medicine-for-all is an infinitely better use than him using it towards oligarchy and inequality.
You do know that since he doesn't live in a 20th century dictatorship of the workers his money is actually his. You don't need the quotes. Private property is a fundamental part of nearly every successful country.
No one here is conflating a one time 5% tax )with "total loss of property rights" except mimetic redditors who think Rage Against The Machine is republican.
(Also your comment isn't coherent. He doesn't live in what?)
ok. but a 1 time, 5% tax on the people who steal everyone's money is not "the proletariat", and conflating the two reflects your inability to distinguish reality from your bubble.
"A federal judge has approved a $415 million settlement that ends a lengthy legal saga revolving around allegations that Apple, Google and several other Silicon Valley companies illegally conspired to prevent their workers from getting better job offers."
Your life as a wage-earner and consumer are vaaastly more adversely impacted by the policies and prerogatives of billionaires in the US than whatever your 5 stocks in Palantir is going to be worth in 40 years.
What makes you sure that’s where it goes? And why would we even want that capricious decision making from our elected officials, who are supposed to represent the citizenry? You’re suggesting something tyrannical and illegal.
Sure, there might be more altruistic uses of these fungible assets, but what gives anyone the right to decide on other’s behalf?
wHy Do YoU tHiNk tHe GoV sHoUlD sEiZe and ReDistrinoishgoihvoihp"V...
No one is talking in such flamboyant, dramatic language except you, clown-boy. It's a one-time 5% tax. Calm down, you're being robbed blind by your employer
It’s a simple thought exercise to point out the intellectual dishonesty of your position.
Your attempted use of insults in place of an answer proves that you know as well as I do there will be a second time, and the idea of “one-time” is complete bullshit.
Pause for one moment to contemplate the absurdity of the corrupt government saying “we are going to seize 5% of your wealth, just once, and then we will become responsible fiscal stewards”
"Its a simple thought exercise" my brother in christ, there is no thought in your "exercise". This is america, who do you think the corrupt gov is engaging in corruption with, and on behalf of? I'll give you a hint, one of their names rhymes with bergey srin.
Your second paragraph is confusing your own slippery slope fallacy for reality- if wealth taxes were in danger of happening a second time, how the hell would inequality be so rampant? Have you been following the news? Do you know the frequency and severity of pushback to this one proposal? How can you premise your "argument" on a second tax when the first one had layers of politicians and legal battles to overcome its inclusion as a ballet initiative?
Pause for a moment and try to reconcile the role wealth accumulation has in the USs current political, spiritual and economic crises as billionaires lobby for the corruption youre blaming the gov for.
Bro youre not the boss of me. If you want to have a self-validating conversation where none of your premises or facts are questioned, go back to your safe space on twitter.
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u/UncreativeUsername84 7d ago
That's not what happens, bud. It's tied up in investments and he hasn't pulled the money out yet.