Bernie Sanders proposes "Make Billionaires Pay Act"

[DavieX 330]

4 minutes ago, Pennywise said:

Aww, thank you. I'd love to eat you by the way, children make nice meals. 

 

 

I can tell you where you should start if you like 

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[CautiousLurker 19,709]

People have really lost all subtlety when trolling and I don't understand why they've become so careless, don't they realize it's ruining their entire shtick 

[PartySick 172,535]

21 minutes ago, CautiousLurker said:

People have really lost all subtlety when trolling and I don't understand why they've become so careless, don't they realize it's ruining their entire shtick 

They also don't realize we don't tolerate Trump trolls here 

You can support the guy, that's your own moral folly, but trying to get a rise out of people by spamming is just gonna get you banned

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Just now, PartySick said:

They also don't realize we don't tolerate Trump trolls here 

You can support the guy, that's your own moral folly, but trying to get a rise out of people by spamming is just gonna get you banned

you should check out that joe biden thread.  He posted a meme there that is off topic. I think thats WP worthy

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1 minute ago, PartySick said:

They also don't realize we don't tolerate Trump trolls here 

You can support the guy, that's your own moral folly, but trying to get a rise out of people by spamming is just gonna get you banned

Bless all you beautiful mods and your big strong powerful banhammers 
 

[Whispering 18,865]

Pretty sure this would be seen as unconstitutional. 

 

Commissioner v. Glenshaw Glass Co., 348 U.S. 426 (1955)

“The Supreme Court defined income as “accessions to wealth, clearly realized, and over which the taxpayers have complete dominion"

 

Eisner v. Macomber, 252 U.S. 189 (1920)

The government tied to tax people on their unrealized gains. SCOTUS found that unconstitutional:

“Throughout the argument of the Government, in a variety of forms, runs the fundamental error already mentioned—a failure to appraise correctly the force of the term "income" as used in the Sixteenth Amendment, or at least to give practical effect to it. Thus, the Government contends that the tax "is levied on income derived from corporate earnings," when in truth the stockholder has "derived" nothing except paper certificates which, so far as they have any effect, deny him [or "her" — in this case, Mrs. Macomber] present participation in such earnings. It [the government] contends that the tax may be laid when earnings "are received by the stockholder," 

 

[Giddi 2]

This guy is something. I wonder if they wrote "it's time for billionaires to pay their fair share" with a straight face. Yes it's fair asking for 40 billions in tax 😁😁😁 oh the evil stupidity. Imagine if we had no Amazon during the pandemic. We wouldn't get groceries masks gloves pain relievers... Clothes.  And the millions of employees that Amazon has delivering these packages.  Imagine if took all the money from these visionairies and gave it to something so unbelievably inspiring as... Mars exploration? New technologies? Quantum physics? Nope... healh care expenses.... For a year. Yes. For a year . We would wipe out the magnificent brilliance of people who create money to pay for people's expenses. For 1 year. Even crazy self antisemite Bernard Sanders admits his theft plan is good for 1 single year only. It's pathetic and sad and evil .  

And no, Bezos didn't make this much money. It's all on paper. It's unrealized gain. That's just how stupid it is. If he actually made the gain he would (unfortunately) already pay taxes on it.  As it is, stealing his unrealized gain is immoral, unrealistic, counter productive and a sign that Sanders is a danger to the very existence and justification of the human race.

 

[Pennywise 36,080]

13 minutes ago, Giddi said:

This guy is something. I wonder if they wrote "it's time for billionaires to pay their fair share" with a straight face. Yes it's fair asking for 40 billions in tax 😁😁😁 oh the evil stupidity. Imagine if we had no Amazon during the pandemic. We wouldn't get groceries masks gloves pain relievers... Clothes.  And the millions of employees that Amazon has delivering these packages.  Imagine if took all the money from these visionairies and gave it to something so unbelievably inspiring as... Mars exploration? New technologies? Quantum physics? Nope... healh care expenses.... For a year. Yes. For a year . We would wipe out the magnificent brilliance of people who create money to pay for people's expenses. For 1 year. Even crazy self antisemite Bernard Sanders admits his theft plan is good for 1 single year only. It's pathetic and sad and evil .  

And no, Bezos didn't make this much money. It's all on paper. It's unrealized gain. That's just how stupid it is. If he actually made the gain he would (unfortunately) already pay taxes on it.  As it is, stealing his unrealized gain is immoral, unrealistic, counter productive and a sign that Sanders is a danger to the very existence and justification of the human race.

 

Another one @PartySick 

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7 minutes ago, Pennywise said:

Another one @PartySick 

It’s gotta be a dupe account. They posted that within a minute of making that account 

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no words at how controversial this thread got... 

[Pennywise 36,080]

Like, why do these people have this false class solidarity with the rich? You are not a billionaire and you most probably never will be. Why are you trying to protect them? What do you have to gain from protecting them? 

The answer is nothing.

The rich will not reward you for sucking up to them. The rich will protect the rich and no one else. 

I wish SOMEONE, perhaps more than a hundred years ago, had mentioned all this could happen. I wish that someone had put all that in an easily understandable book. I wish that book was also easily accessible and was not demonized by the US public, but here we are. 

[Pennywise 36,080]

I feel like I'm about to change my username to Marx and lay it on these birches 

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Politician: Hey. Look. There are some people left who werent crushed by all the measures. I have an idea. Let's crush them too. 

 

[DavieX 330]

32 minutes ago, Pennywise said:

Like, why do these people have this false class solidarity with the rich? You are not a billionaire and you most probably never will be. Why are you trying to protect them? What do you have to gain from protecting them? 

The answer is nothing.

The rich will not reward you for sucking up to them. The rich will protect the rich and no one else. 

I wish SOMEONE, perhaps more than a hundred years ago, had mentioned all this could happen. I wish that someone had put all that in an easily understandable book. I wish that book was also easily accessible and was not demonized by the US public, but here we are. 

I have no solidarity with the rich but I don't believe in pushing them just for having money.   Why would you do that, is it envy?  I wish i was a billonaire heck everyone here wished they were one but i bet we wouldn't like to be taxed 40% or like berne and AOC want 90%  Like wth!? I get they make a living out of Tax payers but they would destroy the country if the had their way.  The billonaires would just move out of the country and then what?  Who would the tax next?