

When all you’ve got is a hammer you’ve got to break some eggs or they’ll spoil the bunch.
-Warrior Cop training
Proud anti-fascist & bird-person
When all you’ve got is a hammer you’ve got to break some eggs or they’ll spoil the bunch.
-Warrior Cop training
Please enlighten me on how he could have acquired $200 billion dollars if he had paid his fair share in taxes, fairly compensated his labor, and refrained from monopolistic business practices.
As a reminder, the tax rate for the wealthy during the highest period of economic growth was as high as 91%, whereas Gates has never paid more than 40%.
How do you think his stocks were juiced if not for the aforementioned monopolistic business practices? What kind of capital gains taxes did he pay on those compared to what labor pays on their income? Why should he pay at a lower rate than people who work for a living instead of holding onto wealth?
But perhaps you misunderstand my point: a healthy society would not allow this kind of wealth disparity, as it is inherently destabilizing.
Oh yeah, I forgot to add monopolistic practices that prevented people from effectively operating competing businesses.
That should about cover it.
It shouldn’t be his money to spend; it’s been skimmed from all the people he has underpaid and the taxes that he’s avoided for decades.
Billionaires shouldn’t exist, even ones with good PR like Gates.
Tyler O’Neil is senior editor at The Daily Signal and the author of two books: “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” and “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.”
Another day in the conservative cinematic universe.
They literally don’t care. All they want is to win an argument against leftists in the moment; they actually see it as a weakness to be beholden to facts.
They’re playing a different “game” entirely, one where rhetoric is more important than reality.
Maybe if the Dems abandon enough vulnerable people to the wolves they’ll finally gain the respect of people who wouldn’t vote for them anyway.