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- Title
What Happens When You Tax Billionaires at 90 Percent?
- Authors
HARTMANN, THOM
- Abstract
And, like FDR, we need to call them on their bullsh*t. As President Roosevelt once told America: "In 1776 the fight was for democracy in taxation. "Succession" is over, but spoiled, entitled billionaire man-childrenare still very much with us, running social media companies, owningnewspapers and television networks, and funding politicians andjudges who then keep their taxes low and regulations minimal. "Now, I will miss them very much " (audience breaks intolaughter) FDR created America's first widespread middle class with acombination of high taxes on the rich and strong unions for workingclass people.
- Subjects
BILLIONAIRES; TAXATION; RICH people; TAX cuts; TAX laws; STALKING
- Publication
CounterPunch, 2023, p378
- ISSN
1086-2323
- Publication type
Article