I felt like that in my younger, libertarian days. These days, when it's billionaire oligarchs vs. politicians and bureaucrats -- I've no dog in that fight.
By far most billionaires earned their wealth by providing goods and services that the public clamors for.
Many tech billionaires "earned" their wealth by providing socially destructive services -- Facebook, Only Fans, Instaslut, Tinder, Google, etc. Yes, much of the public likes these services, but they debase the users' mental and moral health, and empower the surveillance state.
Conservatives should stop offering knee-jerk support to billionaires. They'll do just fine, and apart from a few good ones (Musk), most play the system and don't give a damn about you or this country.
**Conservatives should stop offering knee-jerk support to billionaires. They’ll do just fine, and apart from a few good ones (Musk), most play the system and don’t give a damn about you or this country.**
True, and the international banksters love the various redistrubution of wealth schemes that the politicians are instruments of cause.
“I felt like that in my younger, libertarian days. These days, when it’s billionaire oligarchs vs. politicians and bureaucrats — I’ve no dog in that fight.”
What you don’t seem to get is that what this is all about is to establish a wealth tax. And they’ll use envy and “paying your fair share” to suck useful idiots in. They start by taxing the evil billionaires and millionaires and before you know it they’ll come after you and me as well.
If you think filing income tax is intrusive, wait till you have to declare everything you own and its value every year and pay a percentage of that.
You could be forced to sell your house!
I’ll take the average billionaire any day over the average politician, and I don’t want to give them even one cent more. Look what they do with what they already get!