Bernie Sanders: "Billionaires should not exist." Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill: "Please name a country that doesn't allow people to become billionaires, but still has a first world standard of living."

Twitter ^ | July 5, 2024 | Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill @DanielAlmanPGH

[grundle]

Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders

Billionaires should not exist.

Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill @DanielAlmanPGH

#BernieSanders, please name a country that doesn't allow people to become billionaires, but still has a first world standard of living.

[Fireone]

Multi-millionaire public servants are ok, just not billionaires.
Thanks, you flipping commie.

[jmacusa]

Say’s the Commie rat who has three homes.

When is somebody going to just this Marxist stooge up once and for all?

[Responsibility2nd]

Bernie would be happy if the government taxed 100% of income of the richest 1% of Americans.

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

In no time all the richest persons in America would be gone. Including minimum wagers.

[RoosterRedux]

Communists always hate wealth. They believe there’s virtue in poverty.

[PeterPrinciple]

A few thoughts:

1) The uniqueness of the American experiment is the ability to move up and down the social/financial ladder

2) Concentration of wealth and power is a bad thing in general. A kingdom is a good political structure IF you have a good king.

3) Billionaires can be good for society BUT right now that
wealth is associated with concentrated power.

4) Big business and big government go hand in hand.

5) We don’t have the right type of billionaires as we have had some in the past. We need better billionaires...............

[GOPJ]

Fake socialists with lots of houses and big mouths shouldn’t exist

He's a real socialist - member of Socialist Workers Party since his early University of Chicago student days...

[Ge0ffrey]

People should not be allowed to own three residences, especially Senators.

[Telepathic Intruder]

What he means is “anyone richer than be should be send to a death camp”.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Why not "millionaires"?

Oh...

...never mind.

[PAR35]

He’s right for the wrong reasons. Many of the billionaire oligarchs are new world order types who want to destroy the middle class and make the globe their playground with plenty of servants.

[Verginius Rufus]

Don’t we have trillionaires now, according to Biden?

[PeterPrinciple]

https://allthatsinteresting.com/richest-people-in-history

The Ten Richest People Of All Time

[Kazan]

Citizens should be allowed to run for office in order to enrich themselves.

Bernie never could hold a job in the private sector. Yet, his net worth is $3 million because he managed to get elected.

[I want the USA back]

That means he takes everything over 999.99 million. Money a person worked for and earned. Which has been taxed already.

Instead, I suggest the IRS seize all of bernie’s money and assets, including his mansions, and give the money to the poor.

[Red Badger]

How many billionaires dollars has his campaign gotten?.................

[shanover]

Nobody in our government should get rich on a government servant salary. Billionaires earn what they have with few exceptions. Congress scum get rich on back room deals, inside trades,money laundering, bribes and so many illicit means.

[KarlInOhio]

Maybe Comrade Kaprugina should divide Bernie's Lake Champlain dacha among 13 families.

[Beowulf]

Dumb Bells do like their Crazy Bernie.

[asinclair]

I suggest that pay for federal elected and appointed officials be means-tested. Given their base salary, there is no claw back when total income (IRS 1040, line 22) is at or below twice the base salary set by law. For every three dollars above that amount, the official has to return one dollar to the Federal government, up to a maximum of their base salary.

When the wealth tax is imposed on the American people, there would also be a similar ceiling on total net worth, with a schedule similar to the implementation of wealth tax on citizens.

[heartwood]

Millionaires are fine, right Bernie? Millionaire is a reasonable aspiration, don’t have to share that wealth around with some waitress.