So we need to tax wealth so much that there is no money for surveillance. Got it.
You son of a bitch. I’m in.
thiel is pulling the strings behind karp.
And people are going to believe this pig.
What if we start having more Luigi’s in society?
Anything stopping you?
I don’t have a cancer diagnosis. Hit me up when I have nothing to lose.
As if there’s a correlation. That would happen regardless.
How progressive of him.
So business as usual?
Thanks for the fucking tip, Sauron.
On another tangentially related topic, Smaug wouldn’t even be in the top ten richest beings if he and his stolen wealth were real.
We already have mass surveillance. Can we please also have the wealth tax?
The CEO of a… checks notes… mass surveillance company named after a skrying orb used by an evil sorcerer in arguably the most famous fantasy series of all time… warns that a… wealth tax on billionaires (like himself)… would cause… mass surveillance…?
I, with a straight face, suggest we should fire the Palantir CEO out of a cannon off a tall cliff into the ocean. Preferably one with jagged rocks on the coastline.
Whoa whoa whoa.
We went through all this trouble making the CEO cannon. Let’s not stop at one.
Financial obesity is neurotoxic, an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
He needs to be taxed at 100% of his wealth.
All individual wealth over $50M should be taxed at 100%.
If you can’t live very comfortably on $50M, you need budgeting advice, not more money.
20-30 is plenty.
We can debate exactly where to draw the line, for sure. And, honestly, it should be calculated as a multiple of minimum wage or ‘poverty level’ or something, to avoid the number becoming obsolete due to inflation.*
But, really, anything between $10M and $200M would be a fairly reasonable place to draw the line. The important part is to tackle the ultra-rich, the ones for whom even hundreds of millions is chump change. (Personally, I’m letting it edge up a little higher to account for small(ish) business owners and people/farmers who might own a particularly valuable plot or two of land.)
*Edit: $50M is ~6,896,551x the federal minimum wage of $7.25. For simplicity’s sake, let’s round the limit up to 7,000,000x. Which would make the limit $50.75M in total assets. If the rich fuckers want to be able to own more than that, they’ll need to raise the minimum wage, which would then raise the limit accordingly. Raising the minimum wage to $10/hr would increase their limit to $70M, for example.
The minimum wage should be 25. And land and housing should be nationalized.
good job losing any chance of winning the election (you just lost the retiree voter block)
CEO of Tech Industrial Complex vendor argues against a strawman created to scare people who own a gadsden flag.
We’ll just have to increase taxes until they can’t afford surveillance I guess.
