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Facebook co-founder: Tax the rich at 50% to give $500-a-month free cash and fix income inequality
https://www.cnbc.com ^ | Tom Huddleston Jr. 10:47 AM ET Thu, 5 July 2018

Posted on 07/06/2018 10:32:16 AM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK

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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

Why not just confiscate the wealth of everyone at Facebook?


21 posted on 07/06/2018 10:41:28 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

That sounds good when you have a billion dollars.

How about he give up 90% of that and spread the rest across his employees.

Charity begins at home.


22 posted on 07/06/2018 10:41:49 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: a fool in paradise

I am tired of the communist billionaires calling for more communism.


23 posted on 07/06/2018 10:44:29 AM PDT by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

This video never gets old:

Eat the rich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=661pi6K-8WQ


24 posted on 07/06/2018 10:44:36 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: freedumb2003

How about a stupid tax. Tax stupid 100%.


25 posted on 07/06/2018 10:47:58 AM PDT by Combat_Liberalism
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
p23n

Worth 1/2 a billion. Worked for Obama. Complains about wealth inequality.

Insists everyone else pay for his guilt.

26 posted on 07/06/2018 10:49:06 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Magnum44

Love the picture and the caption.


27 posted on 07/06/2018 10:50:12 AM PDT by Jean2
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To: cuban leaf

EXCELLENT video!


28 posted on 07/06/2018 10:50:24 AM PDT by BwanaNdege (uires sonm)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

Has the guy written a check to the Treasury for half his net worth?


29 posted on 07/06/2018 10:51:24 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

Top marginal rate in the bad old days was 90%. How’d THAT work out?


30 posted on 07/06/2018 10:52:02 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

Tax the rich, feed the poor
‘til there are no rich no more...


31 posted on 07/06/2018 10:52:25 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Vermont Lt
"How about he give up 90% of that and spread the rest across his employees."

Still would leave him $100 million at 90%, I guess he can scrape buy on that but only if his boyfriend works and picks up the health insurance of course...

32 posted on 07/06/2018 10:53:18 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: BwanaNdege

Ben Shapiro used this sort of math regarding the $20 million a year CEO of Wal-Mart. He gave the number of employees and said that if he took zero salary and divided it up among all of his employees, everyone would get $10 for the entire year.

i.e. the whole “eat the rich” thing is a diversion. It’s nothing but politicized/weaponized envy.


33 posted on 07/06/2018 10:55:39 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

If he thinks this a good idea, let’s start with his money.


34 posted on 07/06/2018 10:58:15 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

Economic ignoramus with more money than brains.


35 posted on 07/06/2018 11:00:15 AM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: simpson96

Well ithn’t that thpecial. Who’s the “wife”?


36 posted on 07/06/2018 11:01:28 AM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: PGR88

With an economic “school” that produced such luminaries as Gallbraith, do you actually think this moron can think that through?


37 posted on 07/06/2018 11:01:31 AM PDT by L,TOWM (An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

If this idiot would give most of his money to other people, until he has left in his bank account the exact amount that I have. Then I might believe him.

They don’t get it. Prosperity is created by people who invest their time and money and hard work. They get rich, as they should, and provide the impetus for other, less industrious people, to earn a lot of money.

If you take money from the geniuses, like Bill Gates, you will not have any more Bill Gateses!


38 posted on 07/06/2018 11:02:39 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism, like insanity, is the denial of reality.)
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To: cuban leaf

I have been a big fan of Bill Whittle from the day I first saw him...I joined his organization and got a set of unbelievably good DVDs titled “What we Believe”.

I was so impressed I was going to buy 20 or 30 sets at $20 a pop to distribute to people, only to fortunately find you can watch them all for free on his YouTube Channel!

Hehehehe...what did he call Michael Moore, “The Mendacious Michigan Manatee of Malevolence, Michael Moore Himself”

Brilliant!!!!


39 posted on 07/06/2018 11:05:43 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

He should be kicked out of the nation that has given him so much Liberty, and sentenced to live all his remaining days in Venezuela. There, before he dies, maybe he will repent his error in judgement about Liberty and economics.


40 posted on 07/06/2018 11:09:50 AM PDT by Wuli
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