Posted on 11/16/2019 3:53:11 PM PST by grundle
A billionaire stands to benefit financially from the sales of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s new “Billionaire Tears” mug.
The $25 mug, which Warren’s presidential campaign introduced Wednesday, is sold through Shopify, a Canadian e-commerce company whose founder and CEO, Tobias Lütke, is worth an estimated $2.8 billion.
“Savor a warm, slightly salty beverage of your choice in this union-made mug as you contemplate all the good a wealth tax could do: universal healthcare, student debt cancellation, universal free college, and more,” the mug’s product page states.
Warren’s presidential campaign began utilizing Shopify’s services shortly after the Massachusetts senator declared her candidacy in February. Her campaign has disbursed nearly $105,000 to Shopify for credit card processing fees so far in 2019, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records.
The Warren campaign did not return a request for comment.
Warren’s senatorial campaign also utilized Shopify’s services, disbursing $16,500 to the company between 2017 and 2019, FEC records show.
Warren’s proposed annual 2% wealth tax on net worth over $50 million and an annual 6% wealth tax on net worth over $1 billion has become a focal point of her campaign. She says the increased tax revenues from the proposal can fund her “Medicare for all” plan without raising taxes on the middle class.
But opponents of Warren’s proposed wealth tax say it’s fundamentally flawed. Of the 12 European countries that had a wealth tax in place in 1990, nine had rescinded the measure by 2019.
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development found that the wealth tax was too expensive to administer, drastically altered investment decisions and drove wealthy citizens out of their homelands, NPR reported.
France’s wealth tax, initiated in 2000, led to an exodus of some 42,000 millionaires from the country in 12 years, according to NPR. French President Emmanuel Macron rescinded the measure in 2018.
“Is this coffee dolphin safe?”
They shouldn’t even be putting honey in their coffee, there are Leftist vegans who decry honey as exploitation of worker bees.
https://www.peta.org/about-peta/faq/whats-wrong-with-eating-honey/
Unfortunately, like factory farmers, many beekeepers take inhumane steps to ensure personal safety and reach production quotas. It’s not unusual for larger honey producers to cut off the queen bee’s wings so that she can’t leave the colony or to have her artificially inseminated on a bee-sized version of the factory farm “rape rack.”
“Like the bottled natural spring water that was just from a regular tap that was exposed on Sixty Minutes once.”
Dang. I remember that episode!
bees scandal.....
Wow. What a scandal.
How did they get the inside story? A sting operation?
MAGA MUG from Café Express-$8.95. Reelecting Trump-Priceless!
LOL. Lest we forget.
She’s copying Mark Dice’s Liberal Tears coffee cup.
They used to use pesticide concerns to mask labor disputes for better benefits. Convinced the public to boycott certain produce to benefit the unions.
I saw Caesar Chavez tell an audience to boycott table grapes because of toxins etc etc. An audience member asked “what about raisins” and he said no they were okay and added that they were a different union.
However, these millionaires will most certainly exempt themselves from any "fair tax" imposed by their tax plan
Bwahahahaha
I own stock in Shopify. She’s increasing my wealth. Thanks Liz. Be sure to pay your bill
25 Bucks! Focha off!
EVERYONE will give up half of their wealth to have everything “for free”.
I want my MTV get your money here for nothing and your chicks for free!
From a millionaire socialist fake indian....warren
Good Rumors LOL
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