• Lasherz12@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Interesting how the same people who talk about billionaire flight if we do them the slight injustice of taxing them for their access to our financial system that made them rich will bury their heads about how dedicated these paypal degenerate fucks will gladly expend hundreds of millions to destroy our democracy instead of moving.

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      11 hours ago

      Who’s going to buy the $80 million houses if all the billionaires move out of the country? Think of all those sad real estate agents endlessly serving little sandwiches at open houses.

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    14 hours ago

    Good god, imagine if that money was spent on something meaningful like climate adaptation or building housing. Hell, reinvest it in the your companies, at least it would create something. What a staggering waste…

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    Of course they do, it’s vital for them, to ensure the US remains a country where they can legally exploit the population and keep taxes to a minimum.

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      13 hours ago

      The “staggering” amount they’re spending is nothing for them. It would be the equivalent of multi-millionaires giving 10s of thousands of dollars.

      They’ll save more in taxes in a day.

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    That’s about the only way you’re going to get the ultra wealthy in this country to divest and recirculate all the money they have been hoarding.