even mitt Romney thinks this very thing… kinda makes me wish I voted for him in 2012
Here_use_this on
I don’t understand why this is so controversial to so many people.  And yet.Â
_dark_beaver on
We need a Greed Tax. It’s not wealth the 1% have, it’s greed.
wiidsmoker on
BUT WHAT ABOUT THOSE GETTING FOOD STAMPS /s
gdelacalle on
And health insurance? How would survive these CEO’s of UH and blabla Co. Paying so much taxes?
reichjef on
We could probably just get rid of them.
18ekko on
They could give up half that money today, and still have the generational wealth for their next ten generations and still afford destroyer-sized super yachts.
And maybe we could work on the cost of healthcare, college, and feeding the poor…
JamIsJam88 on
Tax their loans they receive with assets as collateral
Ninevehenian on
Those billionaires need to be sentenced to a loss of right to own private property and corporations need to be heavily taxed if their employees earn significantly less than their leadership.
wavesahoy on
Until Citizens United gets overturned by a new Supreme Court, this will not happen.
gvincejr on
They should impose a hypothecation tax. What these people do is borrow and pledge the stock as security. Since it’s a loan, there is no income and no tax. Impose a tax on the pledging of the stock.
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99% tax rate on all earnings over $10M.
even mitt Romney thinks this very thing… kinda makes me wish I voted for him in 2012
I don’t understand why this is so controversial to so many people.  And yet.Â
We need a Greed Tax. It’s not wealth the 1% have, it’s greed.
BUT WHAT ABOUT THOSE GETTING FOOD STAMPS /s
And health insurance? How would survive these CEO’s of UH and blabla Co. Paying so much taxes?
We could probably just get rid of them.
They could give up half that money today, and still have the generational wealth for their next ten generations and still afford destroyer-sized super yachts.
And maybe we could work on the cost of healthcare, college, and feeding the poor…
Tax their loans they receive with assets as collateral
Those billionaires need to be sentenced to a loss of right to own private property and corporations need to be heavily taxed if their employees earn significantly less than their leadership.
Until Citizens United gets overturned by a new Supreme Court, this will not happen.
They should impose a hypothecation tax. What these people do is borrow and pledge the stock as security. Since it’s a loan, there is no income and no tax. Impose a tax on the pledging of the stock.
Cap wealth at $999,999,999.
Everything else goes into fixing things.