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RandySF

(86,185 posts) Sat Oct 19, 2019, 05:59 PM Oct 2019

I am not opposed to anyone becoming a billionaire.

I just want billionaires to pay their fair share of taxes.

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I am not opposed to anyone becoming a billionaire. (Original Post) RandySF Oct 2019 OP

Exactly!!!! zeusdogmom Oct 2019 #1

ppl becoming so disproportionately rich is the root of many of our problems Kurt V. Oct 2019 #2

+1 moondust Oct 2019 #4

Actually pay much HIGHER rate taxes than middle class ..eom at140 Oct 2019 #3

no. 👇 Kurt V. Oct 2019 #5

The greedy create the needy I_UndergroundPanther Oct 2019 #6

zeusdogmom

(1,143 posts)

1. Exactly!!!!

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sat Oct 19, 2019, 06:09 PM

Oct 2019

Kurt V.

(5,624 posts)

2. ppl becoming so disproportionately rich is the root of many of our problems

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sat Oct 19, 2019, 06:23 PM

Oct 2019

moondust

(21,349 posts)

4. +1

Reply to Kurt V. (Reply #2)

Sat Oct 19, 2019, 06:46 PM

Oct 2019

Among them, I suspect some talented, hard-working people may develop a sense of low self-worth since "the system" values them so much less than some of their fellow (equal) humans, in some cases tragically leading to opioids and suicide.

Nobody needs a billionaire dollars. Nobody needs billionaires.

Somebody needs to undo the past 40 years of "trickle-down" Reaganomics and other self-serving Republican garbage.

at140

(6,277 posts)

3. Actually pay much HIGHER rate taxes than middle class ..eom

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sat Oct 19, 2019, 06:37 PM

Oct 2019

Kurt V.

(5,624 posts)

5. no. 👇

Reply to at140 (Reply #3)

Sat Oct 19, 2019, 06:59 PM

Oct 2019

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2019/10/11/for-the-first-time-in-history-us-billionaires-paid-a-lower-tax-rates-than-the-working-class-what-we-should-do-about-it/#140d49351fce

I_UndergroundPanther

(13,385 posts)

6. The greedy create the needy

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sat Oct 19, 2019, 10:34 PM

Oct 2019

We do not need billionaires. We would do fine without them.
I do not think anyone deserves to be that rich no matter what they do or inherit..no one needs a billion dollars. No One.

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