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To: ClearCase_guy

Also, he sort of gives the impression that we might be able to balance the dang budget if those billionaires would actually start paying taxes. I kind of think this implication is wrong on several levels.


4 posted on 12/02/2023 8:13:41 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: ClearCase_guy

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/nov/02/viral-image/confiscating-us-billionaires-wealth-would-run-us-g/

stated on October 23, 2019 in a Facebook post:
“The 550 U.S. billionaires together are worth $2.5 trillion. If we confiscated 100% of their wealth, we’d raise enough to run the federal government for less than eight months.”


12 posted on 12/02/2023 10:36:48 AM PST by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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