Sanders: In my view, we can no longer tolerate billionaires becoming obscenely rich ...

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65. Part good idea. Part terrible strategy and worse than terrible sales technique.

Tax billionaires? Of course. That's what most people, Dems and Republicans, want to do. That's the good part of Sanders's tweet.

Saying that "we can longer tolerate billionaires?" That's just terrible sales technique and terrible revenue strategy. It's so bad that it arguably sets back the goal of taxing the wealth of billionaires for the good of the country. This tweet rates a -7 on the scale from -10 to 10 in terms of advancing progressive goals. It gives a snack to resentment and tosses a banquet of prosperity in the trash.

Of course we can tolerate billionaires becoming obscenely rich. Just tax them. That's the only thing that needs to be in the message. Use billionaire wealth as sources of tax revenue for the good of the country in which the billionaires have prospered and created their wealth.

Every single American deserves the right to know that if they have a good enough idea, they can become billionaires. And buy toys. And pay huge taxes.