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Who broke America? You’d be surprised. Elon Musk’s Twitter stunt is why we need to tax the rich.

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David Brooks wrote a piece a few weeks ago that has several points progressives should explore. Elon Musk’s tweet bleeds ‘tax the rich.’

Elon Musk proves that tax the rich is important

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  • U.S. Covid Deaths Get Even Redder: The partisan gap in Covid’s death toll has grown faster over the past month than at any previous point. As 2020 wound down, there were good reasons to believe that the death toll during the pandemic’s first year might have been worse in red America. There were also good reasons to think it might have been worse in blue America. Conservative areas tend to be older, less prosperous and more hostile to mask wearing, all of which can exacerbate the spread or severity of Covid-19. Liberal areas, for their part, are home both to more busy international airports and more Americans who suffer the health consequences of racial discrimination (h/t Charlie Lindahl).
  • HOW THE BOBOS BROKE AMERICA: The creative class was supposed to foster progressive values and economic growth. Instead we got resentment, alienation, and endless political dysfunction. The dispossessed set out early in the mornings. They were the outsiders, the scorned, the voiceless. But weekend after weekend—unbowed and undeterred—they rallied together. They didn’t have much going for them in their great battle against the privileged elite, but they did have one thing—their yachts (h/t Thomas CZarnik aka Tom C).
  • Elon Musk Twitter Stunt Offers ‘Best Argument Imaginable’ for Billionaire Tax, Critics Say: “Billionaires shouldn’t only have to pay taxes when they volunteer to do so.” Mega-billionaire Elon Musk’s latest stunt—a Twitter poll asking whether he should sell 10% of his Tesla stock—was accompanied by a candid admission of what progressives have long seen as a fundamental flaw of the U.S. tax system: For the super-rich, paying income taxes is effectively optional. After promising to abide by the results of his poll—which attracted more than 3.5 million votes and closed with 57.9% endorsing the sell-off—Musk noted that he does “not take a cash salary or bonuses from anywhere.”

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Biden discussion on Like It Or Not, Biden slams reporter & schools on foreign policy, the rich attack.

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Biden had to both slam and school reporters at the summit. I appeared on Like It Or Not recently to discuss Biden. But, unfortunately, the rich continue their assault on the masses.

Like It Or Not Appearance

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FREE STUFF? No? We want what we earned. It’s the wealthy & corporatists who get free stuff.

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Both Republicans and Centrists are demeaning those who want middle-class centric policies with the “Free Stuff” trope. It is nothing but a projection from the top.

Free Stuff

Why is the Free Stuff moniker so powerful?

It creates the false belief that someone or some group is getting something for free that is either taken away from you or you have to work hard to pay for with your hard-earned dollars. They are successful in doing this because they set the initial narrative and they have the means to keep in your psyche. But no more. It is time that we educate ourselves to reality.

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For many of the rich, it is not just greed but a pathology.

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The movie Wall Street claimed that greed is good. It also implied that it made the rich. That’s partially true. An evil pathology is a component in some.

Rich Greed Pathology

To be clear, all the rich are not bad, greedy, or pathologically deficient. We are well aware that a large percentage are.

It is that large percentage of the rich who are using laws they supported like Citizen United and McCutcheon to purchase politicians that directly support their pathology. The hoarding of wealth one can never ultimately use at the detriment of society at large is not only wrong and immoral but evil.

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Taxing Bill Gates $100 Billion, Counters Bernie Sanders, Could End Homelessness and Microsoft Founder ‘Would Still Be a Multibillionaire’

Taxing Bill Gates $100 Billion, Counters Bernie Sanders, Could End Homelessness and Microsoft Founder ‘Would Still Be a Multibillionaire’

Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Wednesday told a crowd at a New York Times sponsored conference that a proposed wealth tax from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a frontrunner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, could take so much money from his vast fortune that he wouldn’t know how much was left.

“When you say I should pay $100 billion, then I’m starting to do a little math about what I have left over,” said Gates, who prefaced his remarks by saying he was willing to pay $20 billion in taxes.

As Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is also running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, pointed out on Twitter, Gates’ fortune is valued at roughly $106.8 billion, leaving $6.8 billion after the hypothetical tax hit.

“Say Bill Gates was actually taxed $100 billion,” said Sanders. “We could end homelessness and provide safe drinking water to everyone in this country. Bill would still be a multibillionaire.”

Warren, by contrast, rushed to reassure Gates on Twitter that he wouldn’t be on the hook for $100 billion and invited the Microsoft founder to meet for a chat where the Massachusetts Democrat could “explain exactly how much you’d pay under my wealth tax.”

Gates replied to the senator, saying that the tax discussion was part of an “interesting conversation” on how to solve the myriad issues at play in the primary.

“I greatly respect your commitment to finding ways to address wealth inequality and poverty at home,” said Gates. “While we may disagree about some of the ways to get there, we certainly agree we need a lot of smart people committed to finding the path forward.”

Progressives found Warren’s tone to be too friendly to Gates and politically problematic as it missed the power dynamics in play with Gates’ wealth.

“You can’t logic Gates out of his class interest,” tweeted lawyer and activist Emma Caterine. “This is about power. We need a president who tells the billionaires to suck it up, not one who tries to win them over.”

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It’s more than taxing the rich & wealthy but an economic redesign

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It is our economic design that allowed the rich to extract everyone else’s share. It is time to examine other designs that include Modern Monetary Theory which we’ve discussed before on Politics Done Right.

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Rich people are out vocally underestimating our intelligence as they try to justify their legal ill-gotten gains. Americans who supported Donald Trump are starting to realize something we were begging them to see. Donald Trump scammed his own along with the rest of America. It is the tax cut for the middle-class that wasn’t. In fact, many are starting to find our they will be paying more in taxes, yes, a further transfer of middle-class income and wealth to the wealthy.

It is our fraudulent economic system that allows this. We will talk about this today.

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Tax The Rich

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Martin Gurri: The Revolt of the Public followed by The Rich Screwing us all

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Martin Gurri joins us to discuss his book The Revolt of the Public. We then talk about the rich screwing us all and the shutdown is probative.

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Martin Gurri, author of The Revolt of the Public, will discuss more than the revolt of the public. He will point out the general ills of what afflicts us in our society that is falling apart before our eyes. More importantly, we will try to arrive at solutions.

Following the segment with Martin, we will discuss the rich and how they are screwing us all. This is an important subject that I will touch on throughout the year ad nauseam.

It is important that we get it right. It is important that we continue to grow. It is important that we stay fresh.

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  • RawStory: One of socialized medicine’s biggest critics is about to get some first-hand experience in how it works. The Louisville Courier Journal reports that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a libertarian who in the past has compared Canadian-style single-payer health care systems to “slavery,” will be travelling to Canada later this month to get surgery on an injured hernia. The Courier-Journal discovered that Paul is scheduled to have a hernia operation at the Shouldice Hernia Hospital in Thornhill, Ontario next week, according to documents filed in the senator’s civil lawsuit against a neighbor who attacked him last year and left him with six broken ribs and a bruised lung. Paul, who is himself a former ophthalmologist, has regularly attacked Democratic proposals to ensure universal health care, whether they take a more market-based approach like former President Barack Obama’s landmark Affordable Care Act or whether they aim for a Canada-style system like Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) proposed Medicare for All bill.

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Is welfare for the rich the same as welfare for the poor?

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Today I will be exploring whether welfare for the rich has the same implications as welfare for the poor. Last night Bill Maher said the following.

“Republicans are right,” Bill Maher said “Not having to work and getting free money does mess people up. That’s why they love to talk about work, the virtue of work, the right to work, workfare, the dignity that comes with work.

In fact there is only one thing conservatives believe in more than work. And that is the God given right of rich people to leave all their money to their kids so they never have to work a day in their lives. …

I mean think about it. Republicans are on board with taxing people’s income, their investments, property, food, gas, booze, cigarettes, everything you buy, even your retirement. Those are all OK. But the one thing that must remain tax free is when money falls from the sky and lands in the lap of [explicative] Hilton. …

If the tough love of cutting off free money for the poor is the right thing to do how can we stand by and do any less for the Conrad Hiltons of the world. They’ve never known the dignity of work either. Shouldn’t we be helping them by taxing inheritance at one hundred percent?”

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Bill Maher uses conservative tenets against the ‘death tax’

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