Really rich people don't want you to know how little they pay in taxes.
Politically I'm very far from Mamdani but I agree with his effort to eliminate some of the perks that allow rich people to shift the burden of taxation from them on to the ever shrinking middle class.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2022/12/13/billionaire-ken-griffin-sues-irs-over-leak-exposing-taxes-paid-by-25-richest-americans/
@vivify saidYeah. But they still only get one vote, right?
Politicians are rich people who are friends with and supported by other rich people. They're not passing laws that keep themselves from getting richer.
How is the 1% SCHOOLING everyone in rigging the system if the other 99% could easily vote against this?
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@wildgrass saidThe rich control the media and know how to spread propaganda about politicians and ideas that don't serve them. The 99% has too many gullible people.
Yeah. But they still only get one vote, right?
How is the 1% SCHOOLING everyone in rigging the system if the other 99% could easily vote against this?
@vivify saidYeah well that's super obvious from all the Mamdani panic journalism and the op ed section of the Washington post. Anyone who doesn't see that should get their voter registration revoked.
The rich control the media and know how to spread propaganda about politicians and ideas that don't serve them. The 99% has too many gullible people.
I hope the backlash comes haaaaard. Regular homeowners are paying more in property taxes than in mortgage payments just so these guys can sit tax free in their 7000 square foot mansions in Manhattan.
@wildgrass saidFree Luigi.
I hope the backlash comes haaaaard. Regular homeowners are paying more in property taxes than in mortgage payments just so these guys can sit tax free in their 7000 square foot mansions in Manhattan.
@wildgrass saidI've been waiting to see rich people jumping off skyscrapers for a long time now but no matter what happens they protect themselves.
Yeah well that's super obvious from all the Mamdani panic journalism and the op ed section of the Washington post. Anyone who doesn't see that should get their voter registration revoked.
I hope the backlash comes haaaaard. Regular homeowners are paying more in property taxes than in mortgage payments just so these guys can sit tax free in their 7000 square foot mansions in Manhattan.
@AThousandYoung saidProtect themselves? That's fine.
I've been waiting to see rich people jumping off skyscrapers for a long time now but no matter what happens they protect themselves.
Control and manipulate the tax code through "donations" to politicians who write the rules, shifting the burden of taxation to the middle class so that my kids can inherit $2 billion instead of $1 billion? Not fine.
@DJJ saidHere's an example where it's worked. Not technically a wealth tax, but a tax on extreme income. It has brought in more revenue to the state than expected, and avoided a mass exodus of wealthy people.
Fry Luigi.
https://fortune.com/2025/10/21/zohran-mamdani-millionaire-tax-massachusetts-5-7-billion/
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The deficit is ridiculous. Taxes have to go up, and spending needs to be cut.
Something's gotta give. Tax cuts for billionaires are moving things in the wrong direction. People gonna revolt against this.
Wages for hourly employees have crawled, while the paychecks of investors and executives have soared. At the same time, the wealth of investors and executives has skyrocketed, with the taxman scarcely tapping these fortunes at all. As the law professor Ray Madoff has observed, Amazon has paid Jeff Bezos a salary of roughly $82,000 a year since the late 1990s, “low enough to make him eligible to claim the child tax credit (which he did!).” From 2014 to 2018, his net worth climbed by $99 billion, just 0.98 percent of which went to public coffers, whereas many middle-class families fork over 25 percent of their earnings. Plus, again, the cost of living has become brutally high. Even households making six figures are struggling to afford child care, rent, groceries, health insurance, summer camp, and student-loan debt.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/tax-revolt-irs/686926/
@wildgrass saidOf course you do. You are a socialist.
Really rich people don't want you to know how little they pay in taxes.
Politically I'm very far from Mamdani but I agree with his effort to eliminate some of the perks that allow rich people to shift the burden of taxation from them on to the ever shrinking middle class.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2022/12/13/billionaire-ken-griffin-sues-irs-over-leak-exposing-taxes-paid-by-25-richest-americans/
That is what you do.
The Marxists are calling themselves socialist these days.
We can certainly see why. Marxism comes later at the end of the socialist road. Can you wait??!?!😀
@AverageJoe1 saidThis has nothing to do with socialism.
Of course you do. You are a socialist.
That is what you do.
The Marxists are calling themselves socialist these days.
We can certainly see why. Marxism comes later at the end of the socialist road. Can you wait??!?!😀