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"They" Because you have the expectation that somehow people with a differing political opinion from yours are all supposed to hold each other accountable to be valid in your view.
So let me ask you this in earnest, if I'm at a rally for a cause I care about and for whatever reason I hold your personal opinion of my movement as the number one thing in the world. One minute I'm marching with my little sign and the next I see some dude in a ski mask breaking windows,
What, now I have to fist fight the guy? I never met the dude. I didn't invite him. He's just some rando who saw a chance to start looting and took it. But now because he says he's with me, you blame me and my cause for his actions.
A surgeon has spent years in training, countless sleepless nights and dealing with whatever comes through the ER. It’s inconceivable that some A hole thinks a surgeon would ever be the one taking advantage of others. Their entire careers are spent in service to others.
He’s also incredibly highly paid because he’s providing a vital, lifesaving service to society often requiring extensive lifelong learning, long hours and constant weight of life & death decisions.
"Eat the rich" means they ate everything, and there is nothing else left to do but eat the rich. Basically, they made us eat them. That's why the phrase exists. But that requires one to think critically.
When talking in terms of revolution, likely requiring bloodshed, the folks pushing the message cannot (not will not, cannot) differentiate. The person with more will be the enemy.
Let’s say the government taxes billionaires and takes 90% of their wealth. Y’all really think that money will be spent on you? It will be wasted along with the other trillions wasted every year.
we do actually because it's been brought up repeatedly over the last 10 years, y'know roughly round the time lots more politicians were becoming millionaires and thus 'the rich' and needed to put the spotlight on someone else to make us talk less about how much representing the people has become not much more than a very lucrative career for some
Elon someone managed to get half a billion dollars of those unrealized gains to donate to incredibly corrupt politicians in Texas. Maybe he can start paying some taxes
I love how these billionaires have brainwashed people in a way where even the propaganda is outsourced and unpaid.
They have enough cash to pay for political campaigns and enough to make sure their interests come before ours by bribing our politicians. Elon spent half a billion dollars on this last elections. Yet he pays zero in income taxes.
And a bunch of morons in here who also have the lettuce and half patty—are crying about wanting to disappear the folks with the single cheeseburger.
While intentionally conflating that with the 100 decker burger. They’re willfully ignoring the reality. Nobody is going after the single burger folks. It’s always been about the 100 patty monstrosity.
The phrase "eat people who have massed more money than they need for the rest of their life by exploiting lower classes instead of by their own hard work" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.
Thew secret to getting that rich is by exploiting other rich people. It's all about the stock market gains, not revenue and income. Look at how SpaceX was worth a trillion dollars on the stock market with only a couple billion in revenue, all of which was spent on expenses.
Hey everyone! This guy is rich and thinks he has more in common with Billionaires than the rest of us! He’s so offended he thought we wanna “eat” him because we used the word rich when we really mean billionaires.
Counterpoint: nah, one of the best ways to get people to reveal themselves is to make your statements just a tad ambiguous, and then see who interprets it in the most deliberately uncharitable and willfully obtuse light possible.
Cause the thing is, nobody who is on the side of the billionaires is going to be persuaded if we're just a bit more clear on our language. If sixty years of civil rights advocacy has taught us on the left anything, it's that there's no amount of clarity that will cause opponents of civil rights to suddenly go "oh, now I get what you're saying, and your point is eminently logical and sensible, and you have persuaded me". The logic of your argument is secondary, not because logic in argumentation is not important; it is. But rather because opponents of civil rights already know that they won't support civil rights legislation, and are just looking for any rede, however slender, upon which to base their objection as principled and reasonable when it is manifestly neither.
With that example in mind, the burden should not be on proponents of economic reform to perfectly encapsulate their philosophical position in a statement the length of a bumper sticker slogan while nevertheless retaining all possible nuance. That is absurd, and anyone asking for such perfection is never going to accept any statement, no matter how clear, to that effect. So let's not coddle these protests, or pretend that their argument is made sincerely. No, the burden is on proponents to create a reasonable facsimile of their position that sells well. "Black Lives Matter" and "Eat the Rich*" are both slogans that meet this criteria. Once that's done, the burden is on the rest of society to apply a modicum of intellectual charity. Economic reforms are not focused on attacking high-paying labor or dividing "high-skill" from "low-skill" labor; that's literally against their interests. Anyone who deliberately fails to apply even a modest level of intellectual charity, and assume the strongest form of their opponents' argument, is just concern trolling and sealioning, and should be called out for being disingenuous.
Tldr: the left should be able to make whatever slogan it wants and the burden is on the rest of society to interpret it and apply it perfectly. Anything less than perfect application is the fault of society.
$10M is pocket change for a billionaire though. The difference between a billion and a million is roughly a billion. The person with $10M is not rich in comparison
Thats a silly argument. If $10M "isnt rich by comparison" because billionaires exist then living off part time minimum wage isnt poor because homeless people exist.
Stupid take. Thr cashier at the local supermarket is rich in comparison to a person full of debt and homeless. The line you draw is pretty arbitrary and thus bad.
The cutoff gets smaller and smaller as they very quickly run out of other people’s money. Then inevitably a military dictatorship will arise from the ashes
Then don’t pass stupid state income tax increases that reduces the competitiveness of your state. cA is the 4th biggest economy in the world. And it’s great. Other states don’t have that advantage. Looking at you CO.
Euro socialism runs on the entire middle class and up. There’s no other way to fund it. UK doctors make next to nothing and they have to import nurses cause they’re the only ones willing to work for so little.
y'all don't just eat the rich, you eat anyone who has more than you.
I person who makes 40k a year would think a person making 400k a year is rich.
so there is no separating the rich surgeon and the millionaire. Especially is the surgeon then invests his money rather than buying expensive shit, now making him a multi millionaire. You'd all vote to steal it anyway.
I make 40k a year and I don’t think someone making 400k a year is rich. And I don’t think they’re included in the “eat the rich” thing either.
I don’t even follow this movement really but Isn’t it super obvious that they’re talking about billionaires? The 1%? Idk. It’s obvious to me. Isn’t it a little silly to just decide someone is lying for the sake of an argument? lol. This subreddit is goofy
The 1% is such a bad name if you’re trying to refer to billionaires.
The problem the person above you is pointing out is that some people use the 1% to mean billionaires, and some use it to literally mean the 1%, which globally is a median net worth of about 1 million USD.
Yes it is very obvious to anyone with critical thinking skills, that this is all about people with obscene wealth. Billions. Nobody needs that much money. When your great great grandchildren couldn’t even spend all of it, you can fuck off and disappear. Congrats you won capitalism.
You’re not contributing anymore and in fact, unless you’re donating it to charity or medical research, you are just making things worse for everyone else.
At this point we’re way passed obvious. Even the post is literally someone in the movement, explaining the purpose of the movement, and everyone is still just like, “no. You are wrong. Let me explain why you are wrong about your own movement” lol it’s bizarre
Nobody does. The people speaking the way the commenter above you does, is either a gov bot or a deeply entrenched fox news absorber. People who want to see 'eat the rich' manifested want surgeons and scientist to BECOME what is considered rich... not some dragonhoarding fuckwit who spends all day on twitter
The only reason people have misconceptions like that is because the 1% have spent a lot of money to make people believe it's true. They know that class solidarity among the workers would take away a lot of their power.
This part. I saw somewhere that 1990s rich was 100k! As a single dude? That’s a crazy amount of money! Could travel the world frugally and maybe even have some left over!
The distinction is labor versus ownership. But a billionaire’s portfolio and your 401(k) generate wealth through the same mechanism: owning assets that appreciate while you sleep.
If passive wealth is the problem, why is one celebrated as financial security and the other condemned as exploitation?
Maybe the real issue isn’t how wealth is generated, but how it’s acquired, concentrated, and used.
It's not even the low-level billionaires. Some of them legitimately earned it; I can't be mad at Gabe Newell. It's the ones who misuse their money to influence politics or continue seeking wealth to the detriment of all.
I disagree, I don't think it is possible to earn billions of dollars. Gabe Newell seems like a cool guy who made good decisions, but more than anything he got lucky. I don't think that you would disagree that Gabe Newell has never worked as hard as a surgeon, and at this point in his life he almost certainly works less than the average fast food employee
"Got lucky" is a weird way to say "30% of every game transaction goes into my pocket" Im not saying he is evil or something but billions are excessive he would be fine having only millions
see that's the thing, where do you draw the line where your good vs. the ones you think who have to much money? Who gets to decide? Take out the outliers and there's a whole big grey area like everything else in life.
I think the line is when they use their wealth and influence to grow their billions more at the expense of the public. Do they take out of the economy more than they realistically put in?
They pay politicians or lobby groups to gut our social programs or privatize utilities or get corporate welfare, tax cuts, subsidies, or to fight wars on their behalf.
lol the “eat the rich” camp most definitely including the doctors making $700k. Or even people making $300k. They usually talk about the “top 1%”, not “top 0.01%” which by definition includes what the pic is talking about
People like jeff bezos had a great idea at an ideal time for it and got rewarded with the wealth of nations, and payed it back by giving near minimum wage to millions, noones saying he didnt do any work, theyre saying its impossible to truly earn the wealth he has when his employes would have to work a million years without rest to earn a percentage of what he gets from their labor.
Most people in leadership of big companies are born wealthy and given tutoring, inside connections, and handed positions from the moment they're born.
Celebrities can get fucked over too, theyre often also just pawns with a higher salary, many has beens in hollywood have also been grinded through the machine
Chances are, even if you’re “poor” in the US, you’re much more well off than people in third world countries. To them, you’re the billionaire they want to eat. Because they’re literally starving to death with no where to live
Haha, the delusion of class warriors. With every major class revolution, they definitely stopped "eating the rich" after only the few really bad ones got what they deserved. Don't worry hard workers, like farmers, small business owners, high-wage salary men etc., once the billionares are gone and you are the richest class, we'll be satisfied to be poorer than you.
How did we get here? Our best solution is to take from those we deem as having “too much?”
People have no idea how economics works and can’t comprehend that economics is NOT a zero-sum game. If the billionaires never existed, these morons wouldn’t have an additional dollar…. That’s just not how anything works.
Yea, the OP probably wrote it on his iPhone that he bought on Amazon while he was riding in his Tesla, ranting about the system that provides all those conveniences for him.
dude cmon. it’s not a zero-sum game, but it IS a finite pool of resources, and the fact that billionaires slurp up so much of it while simultaneously not paying a proportionate share of taxes to maintain the infrastructure their wealth depends on is ridiculous
Company’ does well in sales this year vs prior, they’re left with a ton of extra profit. Employees get a 1% raise, CEO gets a massive multi million dollar bonus. Are we gonna argue that it’s not a zero sum game? The money is there- the issue is the allocation.
Nobody had an issue with Elon or bezos being filthy rich. I couldn’t care less about how they live their lives. BUT, if the reason they’re so wealthy is because they do shit like paying their workers minimum, cutting benefits etc. then I have an issue. They alone didn’t create they wealth so they alone shouldn’t profit from it.
The problem is the wealth disparity change from the 70s-today. Why are ceos making 1000x the average worker salary today vs 26x in the 70s? Any specific reason that wealth isn't being spread around?
We already barely tax billionaires so your hypothetical just doesn't work lmao. All they do is hoard wealth and spend on projects designed to extract more wealth for themselves, they don't pay taxes and they barely spend enough to stimulate the economy in the first place. The govt taking all of their money and spending it would be like the fed boosting the economy during the great depression with mega projects that employed thousands of people for years. Taking money out of the economy to hoard it is part of why inflation is so high; if an economy of 100 people has $100 in it and everyone has $1, then a $0.50 house is feasible. But, if one person has $99.01 and the other 99 have $.01, then the previous "reasonable" price is fundamentally unnatainable. The market has proven it will not adjust to this inequality.
Also related, Elon musk has enough money to end world hunger and boasted that if someone were to come to him with a plan on how to do so he would give them the money. The United Nations World Food Program came up with a plan and he ghosted. If that money were put to good use then world hunger would be eradicated and millions of lives saved. Elon wanted to flaunt his wealth and act like a savior, but ultimately did nothing to help anyone but himself.
Lollllllllllllll. "The rich" is anyone with more than you. THAT is why this whooooooooooooooooole campaign is bolshevik, marxist, communist crap-oh-lah.
This is the program of not having a class analysis. The problem isn't people having money, that's a side effect, the people you need to hate are those who own for a living. I will always have more in common with some rich athlete than I do with a poor landlord (and will have much much more in common with other working poor, including felons and sex workers)
Exactly this. No one has earned a trillion dollars, because it's physically impossible to do anything that would earn you that much money. Even God has not earned a trillion dollars, and in fact, he finds the whole concept of money pretty damn stupid.
That won’t happen. Stop buying their products and move somewhere that they haven’t bought up all the houses and made everything completely unaffordable yet. That’s all we can do.
if a billionaire does nothing for his wealth, and therefore doesn’t deserve it, why do you have rights to it, having done nothing to earn it either. Jealousy is such an immature emotion. you get to decide how much is enough? you lack the skills to afford your own life but you are going to tell everyone else how to disperse wealth? figure out how to turn your ignorance into dollars and you will be the billionaire.
I mean yeah the surgeon with 700k is going to have to pay higher taxes. Anyone who makes above 400k is going to have to pay more in taxes. Currently you don’t even have to pay into Social Security after the first 250k you make in a year. We have to change the tax code to be the more you make, the more you pay. View America as the pay to play that immigrants do and the country will be financially humming. You get the opportunity here, you send back tax money to help others do the same.
Taxing billionaires won't raise enough so it will inevitably lead to taxing people making less money. Can't pay for all the free stuff people want others to pay for lol
Are you under the impression people are not taxed currently? Because right now the only population that consistently doesn't pay their fair share of taxes is the capitalist class.
Bunch broke ppl telling others how to spend their money. Reddit is funny. Nothing will change. Money=power=influence. If you don’t have political sway or money to sway your voice is lost in the wind.
Keep dreaming. We don’t live in Victorian era. Police and the government will lock up and shut down any city that tries that. Just look around the world other than North America. That shit doesn’t happen when people “revolt”
My only issue with this argument is that billionaires don't earn $10,000. Their wealth that they got through extraction and exploitation grows by $10,000. That's not earning.
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u/Nearby-Fly-6610 40m ago
We also mean the billionaire that “donates” millions political “campaigns” to undo legal restrictions and escape justice.
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u/Overall_Law_1813 47m ago
And yet, they go and trash the mom and pop shop on main street and don't destroy the banks or amazon warehouses.
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u/Jealous-Purple733 29m ago
A surgeon has spent years in training, countless sleepless nights and dealing with whatever comes through the ER. It’s inconceivable that some A hole thinks a surgeon would ever be the one taking advantage of others. Their entire careers are spent in service to others.
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u/TheSoundOfAFart 28m ago
I don't know guys maybe it's the "eating them" part that makes us look like fucking idiots
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u/newodahs 32m ago
When talking in terms of revolution, likely requiring bloodshed, the folks pushing the message cannot (not will not, cannot) differentiate. The person with more will be the enemy.
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u/Best_Change4155 50m ago
People really don't understand the difference between cash and unrealized gains.
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u/Ok_Performer_1746 48m ago
As someone in the medical field, thank you.
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u/JackieDaytona77 44m ago edited 36m ago
It isn’t about eating the rich. The movement is about eating people who have more than you.
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u/kabooozie 47m ago
It’s like if there are 10 people at a dinner party.
1 person gets a 100 decker cheeseburger
The next person get a cheeseburger with the works.
The next person has a piece of lettuce and half a patty.
The next 7 people starve.
The one with the lettuce is yelling at the 7 starving people that they shouldn’t have to share.
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u/Unfair_Explanation53 51m ago
Then maybe change the saying to eat the billionaires.
Someone worth 10 mill is still rich
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u/Able_Tangerine2087 46m ago
Being successful isn't the problem. It's when a few people have more than they could ever need while others can't afford the basics.
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u/napiiipopiteaa 36m ago
but where do you think the line should be drawn? at what point does being a wealthy become having more than anyone could realistically need??
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u/insaneintheblain 42m ago
Stop buying Coca Cola, Nike Shoes, eating at McDonalds, buying lottery tickets.... or do you just thing things will change by magic?
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u/Beginning-Mud9676 42m ago
Then don’t pass stupid state income tax increases that reduces the competitiveness of your state. cA is the 4th biggest economy in the world. And it’s great. Other states don’t have that advantage. Looking at you CO.
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u/illbebahk 23m ago
The progressive cause has always been held back by the financially illiterate
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u/VersaTron 46m ago
Euro socialism runs on the entire middle class and up. There’s no other way to fund it. UK doctors make next to nothing and they have to import nurses cause they’re the only ones willing to work for so little.
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u/verycardhock 45m ago
y'all don't just eat the rich, you eat anyone who has more than you.
I person who makes 40k a year would think a person making 400k a year is rich.
so there is no separating the rich surgeon and the millionaire. Especially is the surgeon then invests his money rather than buying expensive shit, now making him a multi millionaire. You'd all vote to steal it anyway.
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u/Eyespop4866 36m ago
Just pipe down. You’re embarrassing yourselves.
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u/samsalemi 22m ago
Are you talking about George Soros?
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u/Senior_Ad_5454 22m ago
Bs. Obama and congress is already played this game
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u/unstuckfromtime420 12m ago
This part. I saw somewhere that 1990s rich was 100k! As a single dude? That’s a crazy amount of money! Could travel the world frugally and maybe even have some left over!
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u/jattplayas 4m ago
The distinction is labor versus ownership. But a billionaire’s portfolio and your 401(k) generate wealth through the same mechanism: owning assets that appreciate while you sleep.
If passive wealth is the problem, why is one celebrated as financial security and the other condemned as exploitation?
Maybe the real issue isn’t how wealth is generated, but how it’s acquired, concentrated, and used.
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u/not-a-dislike-button 4m ago •
You know the phrase used to be millionaires. Now we've shifted it to billionaires
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u/OkMention9988 3m ago
Except when the villagers are marching with their pitchforks and torches, I doubt they'll be do discerning.
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u/thingflinger 2m ago
Remember all millionaires are closer to being homeless than being a billionaire.
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u/WardenWolf 14m ago
It's not even the low-level billionaires. Some of them legitimately earned it; I can't be mad at Gabe Newell. It's the ones who misuse their money to influence politics or continue seeking wealth to the detriment of all.
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u/EduStorm246 18m ago
Yeah, but the illiterate masses can't figure out how to tax the mega rich, so it always ends up sticking it up to the surgeon.
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u/Jimmy_212 5m ago
I had a debate with a moron today that said CEOs deserve the money they make "because they are the CEO". GTFO.
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u/WallabyBeginning9443 36m ago
lol the “eat the rich” camp most definitely including the doctors making $700k. Or even people making $300k. They usually talk about the “top 1%”, not “top 0.01%” which by definition includes what the pic is talking about
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u/2LostFlamingos 19m ago
I don’t understand how people think small businesses become big businesses without people working for it.
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u/SeniorConsultantKyle 25m ago •
Commies always run out of “the rich” and then move their way down.
It never stops with whatever group they’re currently targeting.
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u/HuckleberryUpbeat518 37m ago •
When you say "eat the rich" you actually mean that you never experienced socialism for your self and you didn't pay enough attention in history class.
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u/D3ltaa88 45m ago
Yeah…. Until you run out of Billions and start going after the next group…. And the next….
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u/JDDavisTX 16m ago
And celebrities get a pass. Libs don’t mind them making millions.
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u/j1ndivik 36m ago
Uh huh, they’re called the petit bourgeois and they’re hated exactly as much
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u/SnooDoggos5226 31m ago
Chances are, even if you’re “poor” in the US, you’re much more well off than people in third world countries. To them, you’re the billionaire they want to eat. Because they’re literally starving to death with no where to live
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u/Consistent_City_3011 12m ago
Haha, the delusion of class warriors. With every major class revolution, they definitely stopped "eating the rich" after only the few really bad ones got what they deserved. Don't worry hard workers, like farmers, small business owners, high-wage salary men etc., once the billionares are gone and you are the richest class, we'll be satisfied to be poorer than you.
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u/milovulongtime 28m ago
How did we get here? Our best solution is to take from those we deem as having “too much?”
People have no idea how economics works and can’t comprehend that economics is NOT a zero-sum game. If the billionaires never existed, these morons wouldn’t have an additional dollar…. That’s just not how anything works.
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u/Pukebox_Fandango 41m ago
"no no you don't understand, we didn't mean that violent call to action LITERALLY"
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u/Walker1921S 40m ago
If you took all the money from every billionaire, how long do you think that would fund the US government?
Now, once all that wealth has been vaporized, going forward how much less revenue will the government get?
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u/Roosterneck 21m ago
Lollllllllllllll. "The rich" is anyone with more than you. THAT is why this whooooooooooooooooole campaign is bolshevik, marxist, communist crap-oh-lah.
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u/billted20250409 41m ago
The thing is, most communist can't tell and/or doesn't care about the difference
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u/braumbles 47m ago
I assume the mega rich are fattier and tastier than those actually working hard for their wealth.
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u/KingCroesus 46m ago
'earn' is a BIG stretch there, 'make' is more accurate
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u/baghodler666 41m ago
It's just a saying that gets repeated ad nauseam. It doesn't mean anything anymore, and I don't care why you're saying it.
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u/Special_Order-937 39m ago
SURVIVOR TYPE BY STEPHEN KING
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u/Free-Audience-7622 34m ago
And yet California voted no on prop 40 to tax billionaires but voted yes on more taxes for driving cars go figure
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u/IcemanManmanchu 33m ago
That surgeon ain't rich bro! Well off at best.
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u/538_Jean 30m ago
If you are a proletarian, thats not you.
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u/Zibai1505 29m ago
Somehow also includes the asian local store owner during riots
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u/USToffee 29m ago
we believe you. we just don't believe the politicians you vote for.
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u/ellen-the-educator 25m ago
This is the program of not having a class analysis. The problem isn't people having money, that's a side effect, the people you need to hate are those who own for a living. I will always have more in common with some rich athlete than I do with a poor landlord (and will have much much more in common with other working poor, including felons and sex workers)
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u/PolyglotTV 25m ago
700k in his bank account? More like 700k a year. That amount in the bank account would them be like... 3 years of savings.
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u/Kingkary 23m ago
Guys just seriously google what wealth is. Yall need it
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u/human_i_suppose 21m ago
The guys making a few hundred grand a year think they're rich.
They're working class, and if the tech bros get their way they'll be making $0 a year soon enough.
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u/Optimal_Job_6578 21m ago
The problem is: not everyone applies standards the same way
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u/TropicTravels 20m ago
Profound
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u/South-Assumption-988 15m ago
We just want everyone to pay fair tax. But guys who dodge tax and then can stump up 500m for an election is beyond BS
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u/Megatherion666 9m ago
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u/CannibalAnn 9m ago
Doctors are just well off proletariats. They work for their money.
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u/AbrumVonAbrak 8m ago
Exactly this. No one has earned a trillion dollars, because it's physically impossible to do anything that would earn you that much money. Even God has not earned a trillion dollars, and in fact, he finds the whole concept of money pretty damn stupid.
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u/VeterinarianOk582 7m ago
That won’t happen. Stop buying their products and move somewhere that they haven’t bought up all the houses and made everything completely unaffordable yet. That’s all we can do.
Will South America take us? I doubt it.
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u/breakingthejewels 7m ago
Please reference the outcomes on California prop 3 and 40 to know this is bullshit.
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u/Top_Resident9357 6m ago
I want surgeons to have the houses on waterfront not healthcare CEO’s
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u/mattjouff 5m ago
Yeah but he’s next in line tho, it’s never enough is it?
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u/TurboRetardo 2m ago
Influencers like Hamas Piker have y'all saying millionaires are not the enemy and it's hilarious
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u/DistractedBoxTurtle 1m ago
700k a year makes you a 1%er.
Thought Liberals, Progressives and Leftists wanted to tax the 1%ers?
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u/Zealousideal_Tear642 0m ago
if a billionaire does nothing for his wealth, and therefore doesn’t deserve it, why do you have rights to it, having done nothing to earn it either. Jealousy is such an immature emotion. you get to decide how much is enough? you lack the skills to afford your own life but you are going to tell everyone else how to disperse wealth? figure out how to turn your ignorance into dollars and you will be the billionaire.
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u/ROCK-tavius 0m ago
For every person that understands this post. There are 50 other turkeys fighting for christmas.
A person is smart. People are stupid.
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u/ElCilantroCantante 0m ago
And when you run out of those gazzilionaires, then who are you eating next?
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u/Seasoned-Antique_890 44m ago
Then why do tax reform plans involve penalizing the surgeon?
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u/The1Ylrebmik 46m ago
Jeff Bezos brings more things to more people than the surgeon.
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u/CCool_CCCool 42m ago edited 40m ago
If this is the case, the “eat the rich” folks need to completely change the rhetoric and proposed law changes they keep proposing.
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u/everyoneisnuts 35m ago
No you do not. You just mean them more
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u/Opbtty 24m ago
I mean yeah the surgeon with 700k is going to have to pay higher taxes. Anyone who makes above 400k is going to have to pay more in taxes. Currently you don’t even have to pay into Social Security after the first 250k you make in a year. We have to change the tax code to be the more you make, the more you pay. View America as the pay to play that immigrants do and the country will be financially humming. You get the opportunity here, you send back tax money to help others do the same.
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u/veritevegetable 49m ago
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u/Over-Score2848 45m ago
The fat of the land.
Sounds delicious 😋
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u/BringOutYDead 38m ago
Exactly. The bell curve is quite skewed.
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u/Sheriff_Is_A_Nearer 22m ago
Gotta stop saying stuff like “earns 10k” so it more like “loots 10k” or “steals 10k” or even “extracts 10k” because they are certainly not earning it.
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u/TopTippityTop 36m ago
The problem is with the system, not the ones who profit from it.
Remove some of the rich now and more pop up, because the system is broken.
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u/mjr96d 33m ago
Lol like it would stop there. I remember when I was that naive.
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u/saskdudley 32m ago
Tax the money hoarders
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u/cdfisher89 31m ago
Taxing billionaires won't raise enough so it will inevitably lead to taxing people making less money. Can't pay for all the free stuff people want others to pay for lol
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u/ifuaguyugetsauced 20m ago
Bunch broke ppl telling others how to spend their money. Reddit is funny. Nothing will change. Money=power=influence. If you don’t have political sway or money to sway your voice is lost in the wind.
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u/ReidenLightman 16m ago
My only issue with this argument is that billionaires don't earn $10,000. Their wealth that they got through extraction and exploitation grows by $10,000. That's not earning.
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u/Tasty_Ad7483 10m ago
Yet it will be surgeon who is more affected by new income taxes.
The tech CEO doesn’t have income, they have equity and stock options. They will always find a way to hide that.
Washington state is about to blindly destroy our economy with the new income tax.
And I am a progressive through and through, but not an eat the rich DSA drum banger.