Say Bill Gates was actually taxed $100 billion.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) November 7, 2019
We could end homelessness and provide safe drinking water to everyone in this country.
Bill would still be a multibillionaire.
Our message: the billionaire class cannot have it all when so many have so little. https://t.co/fVlxuIGygf
Say the industrious next-door neighbor's kid Billy was actually taxed $5 every time he mowed the lawn for people, walked their dogs, sold lemonade at his lemonade stand, etc.
That could help pay for our little kids' Jackson's, Aiden's, and Mason's toys.
Billy would still have enough money.
Our message: Billy cannot have it all when our kids Jackson, Aiden, and Mason have so little.
1) The US has a national deficit of around ten times $100 billion. Ergo, the reason why the things Bernie Sanders mentions have not been done is not because of a lack of money.
ReplyDelete2) Sanders relies on the myth that billionaires' money is just hidden under the mattress, doing nothing except boosting their egos. In reality, its invested (people able to make a billion aren't that stupid). Taking away their money would not mean more investment, it would simply move it around to different investments. What's Sander's plan to compensate removing all funding from the projects that Gates' money is invested in?
Good points!
DeleteGreat points! I thought the govt gave away half the store to the american Indians so they could... Oh I don't know... Build gambling casinos.
ReplyDeleteBill gates would feel proud to give $100 billion or more for that kind of thing.
Lol, Coreysan. :)
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