[bkopto]

The economy as a whole will stagnate.

Some things and some principles are more important than the economy.

These people are selling the nation out, censoring you, lying to you, propagandizing you and your children, crushing your values, importing third-worlders to replace you, and it comes down to dollars and cents, for people on this forum???

The Amish have it right. Community, family, and nation are more important than money. I’ll take the cut in the standard of living if I can get my nation back.

[Trinity5]

You need to swap nation and money in your statement...

[palmer]

You are partly correct. The Amish do have it right. But the reason they have it right is they haven't sold their souls for bread and circus. Too many people fund the billionaires through their mindless consumption particularly of "entertainment". They watch their smut on cable and pretend they are not funding their enemies. That includes a huge number of people here.

Two of the biggest enenies of America are the media and big government. By confiscating money from billionaires you will enlarge the government. Second, not all billionaires are our enemies. On the list in the article is (at the very least) the remaining Koch brother. When you confiscate money from him you are taking money fro a guy who supports American values.

Another thing I would add is that other enemies of America include overseas billionaires who will not be subject to this wealth confiscation.

[palmer]

and it comes down to dollars and cents, for people on this forum???

You do not understand innovation at all. Yes, I was paid very well to invent things for two years to (hopefully) make my multi-millionaire benefactor even more wealthy. In the end about 20 of us failed and he ended up a lot less wealthy. However my motivation is not "dollars and cents" as you implied. It is innovation and MAGA.