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Jeff Bezos fund ends support for climate group amid fears billionaires ‘bowing down’ to Trump
(www.theguardian.com)
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Tax billionaires based on wealth instead of income and no one would care how he spends his billions.
I'm no economist but I think anything after 1billion should stop being considered "property" of the CEO/owner that is able to be monetized and should have some legal differentiation that defines it as the sole property of the corporation for purposes of defining ownership.
Everyone argues that you can't force a billionaire to have to liquidate their wealth (stocks) because it will tank the company, even though they can leverage their stocks to fund their life, so they shouldn't be allowed to own that kind of wealth to begin with. The difference after 1billion should be considered a type of "ownership token" to keep the ownership of a company in the hands of the person that made the company/runs it until they decide to pass the ownership on to someone else.
Shut up. Your ideas are dumb and will give everyone access to food.
Wait, that can't be right... Hold on.... - checks notes -
Oh okay, I get it now. Here we go!
Shut up. Your easily implemented "simple plans" would make universal healthcare easily accessible.
Huh... I know there's a good argument in here.... - thumbs through pages of notes -
Look, quit trying to make unchecked capitalism look bad by simply talking about it!