The phrase “tax the rich” can be “just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs”, according to the New York City billionaire Steve Roth, who said that the top 1% should be “praised and thanked”.
Speaking on his company’s quarterly earnings call on Tuesday, Roth, the CEO of Vornado Realty Trust, expressed his support for fellow billionaire and the CEO of Citadel, Ken Griffin, who was singled out in the 15 April announcement by New York’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, of the state’s first “pied-à-terre” tax on second homes valued at more than $5m. In a video, Mamdani announced the policy in front of Griffin’s penthouse, which he said was purchased for $238m.
“We are all shocked that our young mayor would pull this stunt in front of Ken’s home and single him out for ridicule,” Roth said. “This was both irresponsible and dangerous.”
Edit: Mamdani’s video that sparked this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLKZnVB4F9k
Bitch, taxing the rich is the humane option
I’d be willing to accept the… Alternative
Because of……the implication.
In france this would not work out
Guillotine the rich
I’d vote for you
Ooh, he’s definitely not gonna like that one.
Perhaps he would prefer “Eradicate the rich.”
(Through even more taxation, of course.)
Or guillitines. Or Luigi. Look, I’m not really picky on how we make the streets flow with a river of their blood. Dealers choice really.
Yesss
I just said this in another thread but I’ll repair it here.
Once no one is rich, everyone will be.
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.
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.
Finally, a morally and ethically acceptable group to do ethnic cleansing on!
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.
I think it’s more that he views anyone not rich as not human. Only him and his rich friends are actually people and the plebeian masses should defer to them as such.
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
“We want you to pay your fair share of taxes to maintain the system you enjoy the benefits and protection of.” = slur?
Eat all of my shit and hair, Steve Roth. You sound like a real turd of a human being.
“I’m afraid of the poors!”
Boys, we have them right where we want them.
Oh, I think he’ll like this inevitable outcome then.
we’re gonna eat you, you rich motherfuckers
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.
“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
Torture And eXecute
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.”
“Tax the rich” is putting it very nicely.
They’ve dehumanized themselves with their monstrous exploitation.
There’s only 700 billionaires in America, and I think we should kill every single one.
Probably the married ones too.
I think we can make an exception for Gaben
Eh…acceptable collateral
Someone could tip him off ahead of time so he can donate to charitable causes down to 900 million.
It’s been entirely too long since there’s been a tarring and feathering in these parts.
Bring back the tax brackets from the 1960’s. That should solve the problems. Fucking Ronnie Reagan and his deregulation.
“Tax the rich” is the 99% being nice. We could go the France in 1792 route.
