FP

Franken-Pattern

franken-pattern.bsky.social

#taxtherich Billionaires need taxed out of existence. No one, I repeat, no one needs an excess of 99M dollars, and those who do are deeply, frighteningly, mentally ill.

A

Alyazia

alyazia.bsky.social

The entire world needs to fix it. NOT ONLY USA

AQ

snaxlight.bsky.social

"In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of 16% of world GDP in wealth."

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Eliana

otrodia.bsky.social

Thanks to #TheGuardian for being a responsible, actual factual #newspaper! bsky.app/profile/more...

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StopFascism

stopfacism.bsky.social

The rich have had a free ride for far too long. No more billionaire class. America is not for the billionaires by the billionaires. They aren't in the dirt working 6 to 7 days a week to just scrape by. They don't have hand covered in blood and sweat from the real work it took to build this nation

AQ

justicejunkie52.bsky.social

Tax the rich too

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HelenKP

htkdem.bsky.social

Because we owed taxes today, our budget just became much smaller, while the billionaires' yachts just got much bigger.

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Brownieboy

mdlfcrss.bsky.social

Go back to the progressive system that existed before Arthur Laffer's napkin & the bullshit supply side revolution that consumed Reagan's government.

D

Dean

deanakclark.bsky.social

37% The top 1% of earners across the U.S. earn an average of 19.5% of all income – sometimes garnering criticism from pundits and politicians – but pay 37% of total income taxes. www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=ce...

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Ree

hillz8.bsky.social

Look at all those smug c*nts, smirking their way to the bank! But I am looking forward to plastic tits McGee taking Bezos to the cleaners. Maybe he can get trump to deport Sanchez sooner rather than later! Either way karma is coming!

CM

Call me Trixie

trixienorton.bsky.social

That's right, and there's no reason they need to be above the laws the rest of us follow either.

TC

Thickolas Cage 🔞

st-thickolas.bsky.social

Gulags for them after all of their properties and wealth become public property.

AQ

captainwest.bsky.social

These people, the so called American Oligarchs, have forgotten who got them where they are. It was not just their work, but the work of thousands of every-day Americans. Now that they are on top, they only want more for themselves while they take more from those workers that helped them.

MB

ME@bluesky@lettruthprevail

meeagleswon-56-e.bsky.social

I AGREE!

RO

🔵real opposition🇺🇸🇪🇸🇺🇦

amapola85.bsky.social

Zuckerberg has yet to ever see boobs. Stupid face

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Atrocitus

chicagobeersnob.bsky.social

Gov handouts to the elite/corporations have been sold to us to benefit all of us... Neither side is willing to remove them.

AQ

m4a1960.bsky.social

Way unequal now under two rich tax scams of 2017 and 2025 ! Everyday people if lucky getting way less back and are paying now !

JA

jazzrat2000 AKA Bonsai anonymous

jazzrat2000.bsky.social

I'm thinking what one bullet could have done there. I know I'm going to hell no need to tell me🤬

AV

Art Van Delay

nobluznredstate.bsky.social

Churches should be taxed as well if the congregational leadership crosses the line and extols the virtues of a political party and/or a political candidate. This happens far too often in the Christian churches, and the IRS looks the other way.

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Whidbey54

whidbey54.bsky.social

My GOD, who wants to sit with these a-holes?

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Maxima

maxima-infinity.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/maxi...

CC

Calvin Chann

calc88.bsky.social

In my country I pay 47.88% before social security. Because I earn a high salary.

AQ

unstableshockpop.bsky.social

Unbelievable what politicians and people at the top get away with. Fed up with all them people in power out there? Political Hyenas...! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub1R... open.spotify.com/track/5Jwkll...

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Javaheri

javaheri.bsky.social

@lazytato.bsky.social

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USArmyvet

bambam2025.bsky.social

Fuck the rich. Bunch of fucking scumbags.

DJ

Doc Jerr

docjerr.bsky.social

The President is in the final stages of narcissistic collapse. What Hungary did to Viktor Orbán, the U.S. can do to T.R.U.M.P. This rock melody says, if you’re not working to end his regime, you are compliant. youtu.be/Mfqp4IQ6HL4

PW

P2Water2 - IYKYK

p2water2.bsky.social

very true. Most rich ppl & corps pay less but ya know, they know where to skirt the law. they know how to keep their money. they learn young & teach their families. How? they own businesses but do not get a salary, they get a “loan” from the corp and just do not pay it back. so technically not paid

LG

Lavinia Grey

arasthebodyguard.bsky.social

Super-rich paying less than the rest of us? That’s theft with a bow tie. Time to stop pretending this is normal

MW

🌊 Making Waves 🇺🇸

travelingal.bsky.social

If any of the people in that picture gave up half of their net worth absolutely nothing would change for them. Their life would remain full of ease.

LU

Linda UWSⓥ

lindavt.bsky.social

Start with Social Security.

ER

Ear-Rational

ear-rational.bsky.social

Elizabeth Warren said it best, our tax dollars pay for the roads, bridges, and maintenance for their workers to get back-and-forth to their jobs. And these assholes pay their employees the least amount they possibly can and evade paying taxes whenever possible.

HS

Humza’s Missing Brain

humzas-brain.bsky.social

Reminder. Effective wealth and income taxes are a global imperative, however, until the wealthy are prevented from just moving their assets to a lower tax jurisdiction at whim. The solution requires a global effort to change international tax laws and practices or reform will fail.

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Synchronizing

synchronic-2000.bsky.social

🤔 👇

DW

Drew Warned You

druidscircle.bsky.social

The rich are leeches and must be brought to heel

BH

Barry Hochberg

barry-hochberg.bsky.social

The GOP sycophants are proud of the pittance they've thrown the little guys while ADDING more tax breaks to the wealthy, increasing the debt. That pittance is spoken for with that pesky inflation caused by that unnecessary and expensive "excursion" into Iran and the tariffs. WE see it. They DON'T.

HY

https://youtu.be/6pwSgOK22U4?list=RD6pwSgOK22U4

anarchyx8647.bsky.social

IRS reporting they are going out of business! cant fund genocidal pedophiles and war without sheep paying into the system...

AQ

terminator2030.bsky.social

Tax those fuckers!

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rockslammer

rockslammer.bsky.social

Just change the Alternative Minimum Tax Rates.

B

BruB

bubchronic.bsky.social

The USA is broken

AQ

wrenbyron.bsky.social

Which one of them is happy?

AQ

workingclasshero76.bsky.social

💯All the dictator has done for 16 months is make billionaires trillionaires and put us all at risk and profit off our suffering. Depose the fascist regime now. Trump is a dictator. MAGA are Nazis. Ice is the Gestapo. The only words I want to hear from dems/gop is depose the baby raper dictator now.

AS

André Sobolewski

andre-sobolewski.bsky.social

Presently, a handful of leaders - business moguls, sport figures or celebrities - are deified and placed above everyone else, as though *outside* of society. A different view of society needs to be developed and prevail, one that emphasizes our interconnection.

AQ

boldandbeautiful87.bsky.social

A fair tax system should reflect shared responsibility. When the wealthiest pay proportionally less it undermines trust and opportunity for everyone else. Reform isn’t about punishment it’s about making the system work as it’s supposed to.

PT

Peter the Baffled

peterthebaffled.bsky.social

We can fix it, like the French did in 1789.

ME

Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE

mrmarkethomas.bsky.social

That is also true of the UK tax system. 99-percent.org/time-for-a-p...

AQ

bobgoblin700.bsky.social

I see an insane number of book lovers on this site, but it seems none of them read history, especially the lead-up to the Great Depression and the Depression itself. We're fucking repeating what we already went through.

AQ

mitchelldstein.bsky.social

#taxwealthnotwork

AQ

thepappy66.bsky.social

Folks should refuse to pay taxes. They can't arrest billions of people. May 1st boycott should include no taxation because there's absolutely no representation.

AQ

redoakhandle.bsky.social

The "ultra wealthy" in Brazil are going to be required to pay a 2% tax. I guess that's slightly better than Bozo and Elmo getting paid to spend our money.

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Kimmie 🇨🇦❤️🌈🌊🐕🦋 🇨🇦

kimbo315.bsky.social

they need to pay, so maddening that they pay so little

CE

C E Jackson

ce-jaxon.bsky.social

Particularly when they have the colossal bad judgment to bow down to Pervy Paws as a plausible leader, and his sordid minions as a "government."

GV

Guinevere Vale

uijhbygyuvftuvu.bsky.social

Must be nice to live in Fantasy Land

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KL33

alexjulianholt.bsky.social

we already have a really nice social system in America. It's much better than the one in the UK are 51st state thank you for giving me 53 by the way, I mean, what are you even people doing in the guardian? Who are you trying to confuse probably Americans who are just like.

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KL33

alexjulianholt.bsky.social

they're actually is a really good reason because they're creating all this new stuff which you're addicted to which readers like Alex Belvia are addicted to super rich not really not to me days owe me for XXX Bay.

MD

Moonlit Daisy💙

moonlitdaisy.bsky.social

Tax day would be a great day to tell the administration that we refuse to support pedophiles, rapists and the kkkowards. But not one will do it.

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tenseven

tenseven.bsky.social

They paid $0 taxes

PL

Patrick Lovell The Producer

patricklovellpresentsthecleannewdeal.com

bsky.app/profile/patr...

AQ

andersenraym68.bsky.social

This photo provided by the Trump inauguration/coronation.

DJ

Dan. Just Dan.

titudeadjust.bsky.social

Nice framing. I paid 6 figures in federal taxes. I did not contribute less than the large percentage of people who paid $0.

PS

Peggy Sanders

peggysanders.bsky.social

Joseph Stiglitz: “This outsized level of inequality has enormous economic, political and social consequences. It undermines social and political cohesion, erodes trust in institutions and leads people to conclude, correctly, that the system is rigged.” #auspol

RH

Rowena Hawthorn

beeing-silly.bsky.social

A regressive system that punishes the majority while coddling the ultra-rich—how is this still a thing?

AQ

paularevere69.bsky.social

GUILTY? ONLY HAVE TO WRITE A CHECK! Jeff Bezos (D) $195.6 billion Bill Gates D $136.4 billion MARK ZUCKERBERG (D): $101 billion Michael Bloomberg (D): $53.4 BILLION Jack Patrick Dorsey (D) $10.19 BILLION GEORGE SOROS (D): $8.6 billion Tom Steyer (D): $1.9 BILLION

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Cognitum

cognitum.bsky.social

We hold these truths to be self evident, and federally taxable. That all men are created equal, just in different brackets 👍

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UncleBob

14767977.bsky.social

Excessive profits are a windfall and need to be taxed like a windfall, excessively! Just sayin'

AQ

mnlib69.bsky.social

I would answer this with the fact that there is NO LIMIT to pathological greed. The TechBros have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes— but they always want more.🤦🏻‍♂️🚩🚩🚩

PC

Paul Chapman

poulchapman.bsky.social

Tax Wealth NOT Work!

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Terry

setmycompassnorh.bsky.social

This was posted by Robert Reich yesterday. 🔥🔥🔥

SS

So so human being

anonbeing.bsky.social

Stiglitz!! 🤮🤮🤮

ML

Madgem Laments

madgemlaments.bsky.social

I was enforced off my Iowa property for less than $10k total in back taxes I accrued trying to save my home when Bank of America took over my mortgage but did not tell me. Double dipped for 2 months. Easier to go after the working poor who “can’t afford lawyers” 🙄 Once homeless, now happy in CA.

AQ

wtree4u.bsky.social

So true!

AQ

kmbailey59.bsky.social

The US economy is a system of bastardized socialism-capitalism. Socialized costs and privatized profits. When these people scream about "socialism", what they're really worried about is people waking up to this fact.

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MassDisillusioned

massdisillusion.bsky.social

wealth tax on assets

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Colin

machine33.bsky.social

Nothing will change. Ever.

AQ

cjd66.bsky.social

Does vibrating butt plugs explain the odd expression on each of their faces?

MG

Michael@ g4dualie.com

g4dualie.bsky.social

The Dot Com Bubble burst and tens of thousands were left homeless… they line the streets of California as a testament to theses Tech nerd’s past and a complete lack of compassion for the less fortunate. Skimmers who siphon off the backs of their slaves.

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BenevolusPF 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇸🇪🇩🇪🇺🇦☕️🥃🍺

benevoluspf.bsky.social

But the WahPost said the tax system is progressive.🤣

AQ

ciroflifgob.bsky.social

Americans have to take down the rich. They are the ones who have created a corrupt system in America than benefits them by putting puppet presidents. This time with Trump, they want to have a dictator to oppress the people and shut them off for good like in Russia.

LR

Local Resister

projectspacetime.bsky.social

And yet, it will continue ad infinitum since they own the convo.

AQ

philipfrankenfeld.bsky.social

The holy trinity of equity.

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Berni458

berni45.bsky.social

The wealth they have comes from us. Our taxes paid to run our programs, unlivable wages paid for our hard work, skyrocketing rent, food, and gas we barely scrape by while they complain about unmet profits in the millions each quarter. Why? We can’t afford to spend more because of low pay…🤦🏻‍♀️

RD

RF_Dude Слава Україні 🇺🇦

rfdude.bsky.social

The system is working EXACTLY as it was designed to work: Maintain the wealthy at the expense of the working-poor wage slaves. It's a club, and none of us are in it. It's designed so that a system made OF rich whyte men, BY rich whyte men, FOR rich whyte men shall not perish from this Earth!

AQ

broekn.bsky.social

FIX THIS @schiff.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov we are SICK OF YOUR EXCUSES you are politicians, many of you for decades - GET THIS DONE - the GOP are evil & you are do-nothings - go to work! @ilhanmn.bsky.social @bennet.senate.gov @whipkclark.bsky.social

KP

Kristi Persists ❌👑

disappointed55.bsky.social

Can we fix it? YES we can 💪🏼

AQ

gregory8-53.bsky.social

One thing these folks all have in common is that will NEVER get the taste out of their mouths from kissing Trump's butt. All their money will never be able to restore their integrity, if they had any to begin with.

SS

Sea_side Sea_witch

seasideseawitch.bsky.social

#notaxationwithoutrepresentation

DM

Dr. Manhattan

donpbenz.bsky.social

It’s called “trickle down economics” started by Ronald Reagan (a former screen actor) the only minor problem with trickle down is that it doesn’t. The rich get richer. We get shit.

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LexusNexus

lexusvnexus.bsky.social

Every time I see this picture of these overrated hacks, I can't get over how quietly insane and manic Zuckerberg looks here, as if he's suffering from a profound psychosis and perverted journeys of the imagination, while harboring some disturbing skeletons. He needs to seek help.

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Stelek

stelek.bsky.social

Where are the Christian nationalists to block the class war on all of us by the billionaires? Takes a Muslim to do it? Pathetic. You voted in fucking Nazis instead.

ST

Softdiamond Tees

softdiamondtees.bsky.social

✨ Just discovered amazing T-shirt designs at Soft Diamond Tees! 🎨 If you’re into stylish and high-quality tees, check out their collection — I think you’ll love it! 👕➡️ softdiamondtees.com

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CoffeeCup

ccwan-244823040.bsky.social

Also, could we implement return-free filing already? www.propublica.org/series/the-t...

AQ

rlnees.bsky.social

Is it illegal to steal your money back from a prick that stole it from you?

AQ

7r-ick.bsky.social

Hubris: If Swalwell was Republican, he would have gotten away with it. Such is current State of our Union. Meanwhile, while America engages petty politics & government: war, fossil fuel, climate change impacts, death & destruction & Sixth Mass Extinction of Species continue unabated. Pathetic.

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nccaniac42

nccaniac.bsky.social

The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of 16% of world GDP in wealth.

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nccaniac42

nccaniac.bsky.social

The global inequality report, commissioned during South Africa’s G20 presidency, found that between 2000 and 2024, the richest 1% captured 41% of all new wealth, while the bottom half of humanity got just 1%. This trajectory is unsustainable. OMFG - TAX THEM NOW

AQ

eusupport.bsky.social

Every worker whose income is recorded on a W-2 should pay a flat rate. No extra payments or refunds and no need to file taxes.

AQ

rdeck55.bsky.social

I simply want rich people and mega churches to pay what I pay

JM

Jinkx Monsoon's daddy

thescottylane.bsky.social

Everyone that photo should be executed by the State

AQ

iceqwn.bsky.social

April 15th - our tax payment will be postmarked/mailed today. Doesn't matter that the mail won't be picked up til tomorrow cuz DeJoy gutted mail pick ups, but as long as it's postmarked today, what's the IRS gonna do? I wouldn't pay it, but spouse doesn't want to have fines assessed. Inverted stamp!

AQ

einar-66.bsky.social

As it beautifully says in the novel: “The no longer needed are broken by the barely still needed, who themselves are broken by the barely still tolerated in institutions set up for that purpose, and thus completely devalued.”

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laart20

laart20.bsky.social

These fkrs pay practically NO TAXES, while I pay almost 40%. Our system is completely corrupt. RIGGED ALL THE WAY.

AB

Angel Bloomed

angelbloomed.bsky.social

You cannot tax your way into equality with a system for which inequality is its primary feature.

X

Xenomorph

xen0morph.bsky.social

Zohran is doing the correct thing. While over here Conservatives and Labour refuse to do this as they would loose millionaire doners and friends.......... #taxtherich #eattherich #labourparty

AQ

crayxtiv.eurosky.social

These people use the infrastructure, the protection by the army, the healthcare system, the privileges, the social system of democracy and flee from paying taxes (wherever possible). Are these Americans or parasites? 🤮🤮🤮🤮😎

TN

Toks Nilhaw

toksnilhaw.bsky.social

DUMP TRUMP. TAX BILLIONAIRES. FUND MEDICARE FOR ALL‼️

AQ

meribel123.bsky.social

Exactly. Most billionaires in the US and elsewhere game the system so they pay no tax at all.

TS

They Say

oracy.bsky.social

I'm an ordinary American who just paid my taxes at a rate of 13%—while Jeff Bezos pays only 1.3%. There is no justification for this inequality. #TaxDay

TA

Todd Adams 🇺🇦

todddavidadams.bsky.social

What the super rich have that the rest of us don't is the ability to manipulate policy to their favor, and in the absence of that, to circumvent policy as they wish.

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weegrump

weegrump.bsky.social

you will never see an assemblage of more punchable faces

DO

Dayle Ohlau

communitycafe.bsky.social

🤍+

DS

Deborah Sharp

saneresponz.bsky.social

"...idea that billionaires should pay higher tax rates than working people is not radical. What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship...where those billionaires can in effect opt out of contributing to the society that made their success possible."

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Jadekikta

jadekiktar.bsky.social

18+ only.

AQ

wontgobackagain.bsky.social

I can't comprehend the mindset of people who are so outrageously rich that they & their progeny could live in luxury for their entire lives, even if they paid billions in taxes, but work so hard to hang on to it all. Would be great if they were all like McKenzie Scott, less like her ex, Jeff Bezos

JJ

Joshua (JD) Drake

offgridwithjd.bsky.social

The 1% pay 40% of the taxes in the U.S.

FA

Firefly and Owl

fireflyandowl.bsky.social

Yes! We also need to close the tax loopholes that allow religious organizations and the NRA to not pay taxes. We need massive tax reform.

PB

President Beeblebrox

prezbeeblebrox.bsky.social

Every dollar they don't pay is a dollar stolen from you.

AQ

smileymcsmileface.bsky.social

Oh, you fucking don’t have to remind me of this. If the government can automatically institute a draft, they can automatically send me my refund without me having to file any fucking forms & schedules.

AQ

scorpion233.bsky.social

The justification is that it is what the USA keeps voting for. Stop voting for "trickle down economics." It's a trick that Ronald Reagan invented to trick poor working class people that everyone else except the rich people is the reason that they continue to be poor.

CL

Cameron L. Mitchell

cameronlmitchell.bsky.social

Tax the Rich Tax the Rich Tax the Rich

AQ

johnd26.bsky.social

Today is the day Tax Fraud Donald J Trump adds another to his long list of crimes. (Why do you think he won't release his tax records? Same reason his is always being audited, Fraud)

AQ

whats-important.bsky.social

BASTARDS

💙🦋

humanity101.bsky.social

🚨👀👆

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Ellie ❤️

cherrywhisper9.bsky.social

If church leaders overstep their bounds by publicly endorsing a political party or candidate then the church should also be subject to taxation.

FL

Faith, Love, Freedom

ladyzip15.bsky.social

And how silly it is to even do taxes and get charged for it!

AQ

eskimodecinq.bsky.social

🔥

EB

Elowen Blythe

inox6.bsky.social

Rich folks paying less than everyone else? Someone clearly skipped math class. Classic

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FOGGthat 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

foggthat.bsky.social

Let's go back to the good old days!

RY

Ride yer bike

4281r.bsky.social

Stop buying from Amazon

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BeeKind🐝

beekind70.bsky.social

Evil, greedy worthless idiots.

AQ

jgunncool.bsky.social

Long past due! And let's not forget - the multi-billionnaires are earning annual returns of 7 - 9% or more, so taxing them 2% still leaves them with positive income and growing wealth.

AQ

danishescalation.bsky.social

Attack RuZZia and the Orange Rent Boy Everywhere..

AQ

hopefulforever.bsky.social

I’m guessing that the rich have no conscious! I have never made more than 30 thousand a year and paid more taxes than them!

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YvetteJR718☮️💙♋️ ♎️❌

yvettejr718.bsky.social

Our Country will never be normal until the uber WEALTHY start paying their fair share of TAXES. That includes CORPORATIONS. When Eisenhower was President the tax rate was very high for Corporations & the wealthy, yet the economy was considered good. We built the National Highway System. Now NOTHING

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@Rick

maga41.bsky.social

Lmao... Like free buses

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rpnear

oppositeoffar.bsky.social

Oligarchs are going to have a big decision to make after the reckoning. Voluntarily give up a lot of your stolen wealth, voluntarily break up their monopolies and properly policing their bullshit media outlets. That is if they are not in jail.

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CReneeSands

creneesands.bsky.social

Uggghhhhh don’t remind me as we pay $9500 today.

SN

Susan NO DMs

rinative.bsky.social

They should be shunned by normal society so much that their money is useless.

JF

Joe Fionda

fionda.bsky.social

Epic Voltron in here

OS

Opaline Sinclair

redetupi69.bsky.social

A regressive system rewarding the ultra-rich while punishing the rest? That’s not just unfair—it’s absurd

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Wearenotstupid!!!!

sjmedeiros111.bsky.social

Wrong on every level. Fucking greedy

J

julie

juliegtyytr.bsky.social

I see an insane number of book lovers on this site, but it seems none of them read history, especially the lead-up to the Great Depression and the Depression itself. We're fucking repeating what we already went through

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dgassen 🇺🇸🇺🇦

dgassen.bsky.social

Greed sucks in all its tedious forms.

AQ

eaglecanfly.bsky.social

I could not agree more.

AQ

ammiano.bsky.social

Thanks for publishing/posting this.

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MaxwellXZ

hoping4tomorrow.bsky.social

#AmericaNeedsFixingPostTaco🏌️‍♂️🔜 ☢️