Money shouldn’t influence politics. That’s a first class ticket to fucking up your society.
Edit: removing punctuation typo
meckez on
They don’t even have to hide bribery any more.
Way you have come, USA!
dordofthelings on
Money buys anything…. Except immortality
rnilf on
> Apparently stung by efforts to bring a proposed “billionaire tax” to the ballot next fall, tech billionaires are reportedly plotting an effort to reshape California politics in their favor. That’s according to a report in Bloomberg that Silicon Valley billionaires are proposing a multi-million-dollar fund to ramp up a political machine to represent the uber rich and the tech elite.
Remember this the next time someone tries to tell you that voting doesn’t do anything, or that “your vote doesn’t matter”.
If that was truly the case, then why would the rich spend so much money on making sure elections go their way?
LostInLittleroot on
So we’re calling lobbying and bribes “funds” now very cool
Cautious_Boat_999 on
Eat the rich
Candid_Koala_3602 on
See if we had taxed the rich this wouldn’t be possible
rymondreason on
Pure greed. At every point they display a complete and total lack of humanity. Tax them out of existence.
jawndell on
Imagine if they used the 500m to pay their taxes???
judunno5 on
It’s a big club. And you aint in it!
RandyOfTheRedwoods on
I thought the rich would just move if someone raised taxes…
aryxslae on
That $500 million could surely use some taxing right about now….
iamapizza on
Watch over the next few months as opinions start to change regarding various topics here. Reddit is almost always targeted by such campaigns.
pumpkinspicecum on
Billionaires are ruining the world
wadeishere on
They will spend more to prevent paying taxes than just paying taxes
NovelDraft5175 on
Billionaires are the problem ? I think so
SpiritInFlux on
Wait, I thought they were all fleeing the state?
shiromiso on
This tells you everything about the taxes they are NOT paying. 500M is peanuts.
Tax the rich
SuperWarning6038 on
These fucking billionaires pay for lobbyists, public relations, politicians, and more rather than paying taxes. We are all peasants to them!!!!
jorgepolak on
Thank Citizens United. This is what happens when the Supreme Court says we’re not a country of “one citizen, one vote”, but “one dollar, one vote”.
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With enough BBQ sauce, we could fix this.
Money shouldn’t influence politics. That’s a first class ticket to fucking up your society.
Edit: removing punctuation typo
They don’t even have to hide bribery any more.
Way you have come, USA!
Money buys anything…. Except immortality
> Apparently stung by efforts to bring a proposed “billionaire tax” to the ballot next fall, tech billionaires are reportedly plotting an effort to reshape California politics in their favor. That’s according to a report in Bloomberg that Silicon Valley billionaires are proposing a multi-million-dollar fund to ramp up a political machine to represent the uber rich and the tech elite.
Remember this the next time someone tries to tell you that voting doesn’t do anything, or that “your vote doesn’t matter”.
If that was truly the case, then why would the rich spend so much money on making sure elections go their way?
So we’re calling lobbying and bribes “funds” now very cool
Eat the rich
See if we had taxed the rich this wouldn’t be possible
Pure greed. At every point they display a complete and total lack of humanity. Tax them out of existence.
Imagine if they used the 500m to pay their taxes???
It’s a big club. And you aint in it!
I thought the rich would just move if someone raised taxes…
That $500 million could surely use some taxing right about now….
Watch over the next few months as opinions start to change regarding various topics here. Reddit is almost always targeted by such campaigns.
Billionaires are ruining the world
They will spend more to prevent paying taxes than just paying taxes
Billionaires are the problem ? I think so
Wait, I thought they were all fleeing the state?
This tells you everything about the taxes they are NOT paying. 500M is peanuts.
Tax the rich
These fucking billionaires pay for lobbyists, public relations, politicians, and more rather than paying taxes. We are all peasants to them!!!!
Thank Citizens United. This is what happens when the Supreme Court says we’re not a country of “one citizen, one vote”, but “one dollar, one vote”.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MarkMyWords/comments/1kadxzq/mmw_western_states_especially_california_will/
I basically fucking predicted this a year ago. I only received one comment.
One way or another, we have to get rid of this infestation
They don’t like Texas and Tennessee as much as they claimed?
Citizens United strikes again.
I just want a single reporter to ask a billionaire how much money is enough for them.
Cool. Arrest them and put them in prison forever.
The billionaire greed is INSANE
You mean ‘kill Democracy’.
They will literally do anything besides pay workers more or pay more taxes.
Didn’t Iran say they considered these tech companies as US millitary asset
we used to slay dragons..
This is what you get by letting the rich hoard wealth.
They need to be stopped
Fuck every single Billionaire with a gold stick of justice.
They’d rather spend 500m so they don’t pay 100m in taxes.
These people are unamerican sociopaths. Raising their taxes is the least we should do to them.
Fuuuck these goons
Like that one rich idiot who tried to do a ‘We love billionaires’ rally?
That’s why we need to tax the shit out of billionaires. It’s not just about funding the government, it’s to keep them from pulling shit like this