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Bernie's new socialist 'solution': 'Billionaires should not exist'
americanthinker.com ^ | 9/24/2019 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 09/24/2019 9:31:43 AM PDT by rktman

Trying to out-socialist Democratic frontrunner Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders has a fresh new idea: Ending billionaires.

Here's his genius tweet:

Bernie Sanders ✔ @BernieSanders

Billionaires should not exist. https://twitter.com/nytpolitics/status/1176459557473804297 … NYT Politics ✔ @nytpolitics

Bernie Sanders is unveiling a proposal for a new wealth tax on the richest Americans, including a steep tax on billionaires that could greatly diminish their fortunes https://nyti.ms/2mm9QB9 44.3K 6:01 AM - Sep 24, 2019

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020demprimary; assclowns; billionaires; contestants; feelthebern; socialists; thief
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We gonna rename him "Hangin' barnie"? How about folks that have more than 2 houses barnie? And, Monica, I got to call you out a little. No using "barnie" and "genius" in the same article.
1 posted on 09/24/2019 9:31:43 AM PDT by rktman
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I guess he needs his kulak class, doesn’t he?


2 posted on 09/24/2019 9:33:53 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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I’m waiting on Bernie sharing his wealth with me.


3 posted on 09/24/2019 9:34:03 AM PDT by bgill
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Without Billionaire Plantation Masters, the modern Democratic Party would not exist


4 posted on 09/24/2019 9:36:08 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....ew)
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This is the epitome of mob rule.

TBH, as individuals, I have a hard time caring enough to stand up for billionaires. But as a matter of principle, this does nothing to endear me to Bernie or his ilk. This is no different than a group of thugs taking to the streets or bandits hitting the trails, and using their numbers to assault those who have something to be took.


5 posted on 09/24/2019 9:36:34 AM PDT by z3n
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i will agree to do away with billionaires if he will agree to do away with communists and Muslim terrorists


6 posted on 09/24/2019 9:36:38 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not , born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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he wants to register rich people, so they can be tracked, and prevented from leaving the country without paying their “fair share”.

they.want.to.register.rich.people.


7 posted on 09/24/2019 9:37:57 AM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: bgill

Equal misery for all - except the ruling class, like Bernie.


8 posted on 09/24/2019 9:39:25 AM PDT by Trumplican
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To: rktman

Guess I picked the wrong day to start buying lottery tickets.


9 posted on 09/24/2019 9:41:25 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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'Billionaires should not exist'

Because, after all, there was just so much more social justice around the world before there were billionaires ...

10 posted on 09/24/2019 9:41:40 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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Does this mean his Hollywood pals need to start paying “their fair share”?


11 posted on 09/24/2019 9:42:16 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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'Billionaires should not exist'

Because, after all, there was just so much more social justice around the world before there were billionaires ...

12 posted on 09/24/2019 9:43:00 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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This is the epitome of mob rule.

Yup. They call it a mob because a majority will think it's a dandy idea.


13 posted on 09/24/2019 9:43:02 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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The minute he got elected, all the money would go offshore.


14 posted on 09/24/2019 9:44:19 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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Taking a $1 from one million people or taking a million dollars from one person.

It has the same effect on the economy.

Bernie wants to take a larger slice from a shrinking pie.


15 posted on 09/24/2019 9:45:11 AM PDT by joshua c
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But, it’s okay to get rich by bashing the rich like Bernie has.


16 posted on 09/24/2019 9:45:13 AM PDT by Kazan
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“Without Billionaire Plantation Masters, the modern Democratic Party would not exist”

Needs repeating relentlessly...

BTTT


17 posted on 09/24/2019 9:46:05 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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> “Billionaires should not exist” <

Soon to be followed by “Millionaires should not exist”, and then “Thousandaires should not exist”. Members of the Ruling Class will, of course, be exempt from all this.

Onward the Revolution!


18 posted on 09/24/2019 9:46:20 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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Equal misery for all - except the ruling class, like Bernie.

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I think people too young to have experienced soviet era marxism don’t understand how a ‘ruling class’ is worse than wealthy people.
Yes, the latter tend to have more influence and get more perks from society. Sometimes, if we are honest, they buy themselves into or in with a ruling class. But at least in our system, many of them earned it, and most of them are paying out for it (despite what you hear about loopholes and such). But Marx’s Bourgeois and aristocrats cannot hold a candle to the tyranny of any system central control and their bureaucrats. You just can’t use words to teach these things. You have to have seen examples of how they control and the escalating nature of their oppression


19 posted on 09/24/2019 9:47:34 AM PDT by z3n
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Everyone equal in POW Amerika!

Is great Socialist future! Like Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela!


20 posted on 09/24/2019 9:48:40 AM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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