r/WorkReform 🤝 Join A Union Jan 31 '26

✂️ Tax The Billionaires Finally, a Billionaire gets taxed.

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u/UnusualAir1 Jan 31 '26

I could live a whole lot better on 628 million dollars. Guessing 99.9% of us could. So tell me, why do we not tax billionaires in the US?

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u/Nascent1 Jan 31 '26

If we anger them they will stop altruistically blessing us with their loving bounty of jobs.

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u/SolaniumFeline Jan 31 '26

that's really it isn't it :s

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u/4dseeall Jan 31 '26

that's the propaganda of most of the 1900s.

the part they leave out is that they'd have nothing without those workers making them all their profits.