5% billionaire tax prioritizes people’s health care over third yacht | Sen. Bernie Sanders
https://madison.com/opinion/column/article_f8367cad-60a9-5818-8d9f-0c8e56236433.html
5% billionaire tax prioritizes people’s health care over third yacht | Sen. Bernie Sanders
https://madison.com/opinion/column/article_f8367cad-60a9-5818-8d9f-0c8e56236433.html
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They can afford to spend billions to fight a tax on their billions.
They could do even more than 5% and the filthy rich would still be able to afford that yacht. For example Mark Zuckerberg throwing away $80B and wasting years on the Metaverse, something that clearly wasn’t gaining traction and even renamed his company to Meta, and yet it means nothing.
Absolutely nothing. He will still be unfathomably rich, will get all his money back and more in time and nothing in his standard of living or lifestyle will change.
It’s crazy how they can benefit from people’s labor and not care about their wellbeing. Sociopathic really
At this point I’ll only accept a 95% billionaire tax or they can opt out for a minimum of one year in jail.
And it won’t pass
7 million Americans who were insured last year are uninsured this year. Trump pulled the federal subsidies from the exchange and these people had to make a judgement call between health insurance and keeping a roof over their heads or food in their bellies.
This is fundamentally wrong. It has to stop.
It’s clear that even on a move as compromising as the ACA paying for health care will always be under fire from Republicans.
It’s time to demand a better, concrete option that can’t possibly be taken away.
cant we all just agree life is too fucking hard and the wealthy don’t know what struggling feels like?
I pay property taxes on my largest investment (my house). Only fair they pay property taxes on their biggest investments too.
A wealth tax is unconstitutional unless apportioned amongst the several states by population, defeating the entire purpose of a wealth tax. That’s why the Senate is not taking it up.
It amazes me that people let things get this bad. The billionaires more or less already won even if I’ll keep voting for something approaching sanity.
But I want them to have a third yatch.
People need to pay for their own health.
– average american
Sure, but if I can’t get another yacht, I might have to start another slave-rape concern. **Ball’s in your court, poories!!!**
Third yacht you are far underthinking how many they have, and planes,
This doesn’t shock me .. this also hit the lower level news channels too :
https://forensicfraudnews.com/2026/05/12/antigua-pm-accused-of-6-million-kickback-in-alfa-nero-sale-u-s-court-filing-alleges/
“third yacht” is doing a lot of work but it’s accurate. these people have boats for their boats.
“Let them eat cake.”
Is it the same when the middle class looks at a homeless person it’s the billionaires looking down at the middle class they don’t care most of us are so selfish we complain about billionaires it we do the same to homeless people we look the other way when they ask for money. At least most of us have done it
if a 5% tax threatens your lifestyle maybe the problem is not the tax maybe it is the absurd amount of wealth concentration
people skipping medical treatment while billionaires collect yachts is exactly why the system feels rigged to so many Americans
They can already have anything they want. Everything they can want. All anyone is asking for is that before people like this be allowed to run rampant we make sure everyone has what they NEED, before anyone has EVERYTHING THEY CAN THINK OF WANTING.
Not disagreeing with the wealthy paying their fair share, but the third yacht comment is rich coming from this motherfucker with three houses
A 5% tax when most of us pay 20% in taxes… and even still it won’t get through bc you’ll never believe who owns Congress…
Yep
Shouldn’t even get a first yacht.
Some people don’t grasp how much a billion actually is. It’s an obscene amount of money, way more than a person would ever need even living a life of luxury. You could take 90% of that and they’d still live a very privileged life.