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New York real estate titan likens the phrase ‘tax the rich’ to racial slurs
(www.theguardian.com)
Oh, I think he'll like this inevitable outcome then.
this post was submitted on 06 May 2026
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lynch him
Just to highlight that as a real estate magnate, his entire empire is built on rent-seeking, i.e. accumulating wealth by the hoarding of a limited resource, without having created anything of value.
This billionaire did not create a billion dollars of value for society, even indirectly; he only took it from others.
"Tax the rich" is the 99% being nice. We could go the France in 1792 route.
Oh rich please.
how much proof do we need that the rich are a different species?
off with his head
Eat himmmmm.
That's pretty funny because the phrase doesn't actually have a negative meaning. It's a policy proposal at face value and at depth and that's it. Doesn't say the rich or bad people, although many of them are, doesn't say that nobody should be rich, doesn't even say how much they should be taxed.
And certainly nobody should be thanking the top 1%. We all know that they got there by lying and cheating and stealing and inheriting wealth.
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
Ebenezer Scrooge, is that you?
Okay, here's the politically correct version then:
Take a portion of the income and wealth of people of wealth they don't plan on investing in a short period of time (not paid out as wages, etc.).
"TAX" is going to be the softest, most palateable verb that will be done to them, the alternatives are a little less polite.
“Oh, would you prefer ‘torture and execute’ then?” Lmao
My favourite phrase, or at least one that's given me a glimmer of hope for the future is "They will have to invent a new word for what the people are going to do to those responsible."
Torture And eXecute
Maybe he should just go fuck himself
It he prefers "eat the rich", I won't object.
Don’t eat shit.
Mulch the rich.
Well he's not wrong, it's definitely hateful. We don't say it because we think it's fair they get billions and we have to scrape by while doing the actual work.
Are both of the following hateful?
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Tax the rich - at 1%
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Tax the rich - at 99%
That doesn’t make it hateful in the sense that it has been used recently. It’s just a normal response to someone’s horrible behaviour.
Lol chop chop, guoillo-bait
losing only 8% sounds fair
That's retarded
"Tax the rich" is putting it very nicely.
They've dehumanized themselves with their monstrous exploitation.
sure fine whatever
here’s another
kill em all
Is "guillotine" a softer word? We could and should just use that instead. I'm all about catering to the elites' baby soft thin skin.
Bring back the tax brackets from the 1960's. That should solve the problems. Fucking Ronnie Reagan and his deregulation.
How about "eat the rich" then, motherfucker? With BBQ sauce.
He views the Rich as a separate ethnic group.
from wiki:
An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of humans who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Attributes that ethnicities believe to share include language, culture, common sets of ancestry, traditions, society, religion, history, or social treatment.
He's mostly right, but that doesn't invalidate criticisms of the Rich.
I've met some people with this mindset of "i dont give a single fuk if it is not good for me". They also tend to praise billionares and bad dictators. Makes me really curios how their brain works
Finally, a morally and ethically acceptable group to do ethnic cleansing on!
I was against genocide....
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That’s like admitting they live in a completely different world. That’s what blows my mind. By implication, he’s admitting the wealthy exist in a completely separate reality. That the shadow economy is real, and that the average person is effectively a second-class citizen. It’s an acknowledgment that it is, and maybe always has been, us versus them. I've always said they exist in a completely different world, one that operates on different rules than the rest of us. More than just the obvious. Everything you posted, culture, norms, ancestry, history. They will never change to help you. They will always operate from a place of exploitation. It's their culture. They made it so.
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ok.
if "tax the rich" isn't enough, maybe this will send a stronger message.
is this loud enough you old rich fuck?
or maybe this is more your speed?
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