[amnestynone]

What is really bad for Democracy is rich libs like George Soros shaking down the rest of us. We have lowered the upper classes taxes regularly since Ronald Reagans first term and as we do that they shift left further and further. Do you see the connection? We have accomplished no other conservative objectives unless it benefits the country club GOP elite. We have just lowered the taxes of the people who own the MSM.

[blackdog]

But shaking down the rich for a 10 to 1 return on investment is how Washington D.C. works. It’s only the middle class and little people who pick up the Beltway tab.

[rktman]

Uh, dumb-ocracy! Not what we gots here.

[kosciusko51]

It is bad for a Constitutional Republic as well...

[Texas resident]

Threatening billionaires is stupid. They are wealthy enough to leave and go somewhere where they are not threatened.

[albie]

And it’s REALLY bad for a Republic!

[zaxtres]

I guess no one in the demoncrats saw what happened to France when they tried to do this.

[setter]

I think the Bezos, Gates and Zuckerbergs should pay some more because they already have dozens of tax loopholes the middle class do not have. Maybe an other 10-15% and maybe closing some loopholes.

We live in strange times. The minimum wage I earned in 1978 is almost $15 hr today according to the CPI calculator. I drove across 3 states last year for a wedding. Saw bunch of signs every few miles help wanted $10-12.00 and no benefits. That does not even match the minimum wage I had in 1978.

The middle and lower classes are on a race towards the bottom and the 55-60% of the population who are barely getting by will continue to vote democrats and more socialism.

Wait until automation and self driving cars and trucks really kicks in and 1/2 the population who are uneducated lose their job.

Peter Thiele of Google knows what up when he said every billionaire he knows has a bolt home to escape to when the masses rise up.

I don’t have the answers but we cannot continue on the path we are heading.

[Yollopoliuhqui]

Massive personal wealth accumulation is a mental illness and a category of mind that has no problem with the creation of a police state. You become a member of the zillionair’s club, you become a globalist oligarch. Who needs more than $10 million in their bank account? What else do you need beyond financial security for life for you and your family? Google “obsessive compulsive disorder”. The war against the central banks and the Wall St. financial oligarchy is a war against insanity.

[Sam Gamgee]

I still think liberals believe in the money tree.

I think the top 10% pay half the taxes already, correct?

[Bishop_Malachi]

Shaking Down the Rich Is Bad for Democracy

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...unless the Rich became rich through crony capitalism, government largess, and corporate bribes to begin with.

[TheNext]

You shake down the rich because many are hardcore socialists.

Capitalism does NOT need their money. They just buy up good companies and turn them evil.

[kiryandil]

JarJar Fatberg weighs in...

[motor_racer]

If your goal is to install a permanent autocracy that will morph into a monarchy, everything that destroys all of the forms of government are your tools.

[cctrout]

I live in Wyoming the one county that Hillary carried & by a huge margin was Teton that’s where all the filthy rich live. The 10 richest counties in the country all voted heavily for Hillary often by bigger majorities than minority counties. I am sick of falling on my sword for these people. The rich have never been the friends of liberty . They have always been the handmaidens of state power. We must impose bone crushing taxes on the hyper wealthy not because it will solve are fiscal problems but it will solve many if our political problems. Ultimately making it easier to control government spending.

[bkopto]

Jonah Goldberg, jackass.

The billionaires persecute you: Koch bros, Buffett want open borders and serf wages. Gates wants higher taxes and abortions; Bezos lies continuously thru his Fake News megaphone; Bloomberg wants your guns and Slurpees; Soros hates you and wants you invaded and dead.

I’m not going to defend these scum.

[Savage Beast]

Shaking down is.