Mike, Esq.

NYC Lawyer - Personal Injury, Employment Discrimination, Sexual Harassment. Etc.

[Mike, Esq. @MikePospis]

@LilaGraceRose Is this satire? No reasonable person who supports euthanasia supports "involuntary euthanasia," a/k/a "murder." 👎👎

[Mike, Esq. @MikePospis]

@sundoglighting @Parkerlawyer Good point.

[Mike, Esq. @MikePospis]

@SenSanders "He'd rather see people die than pay taxes" is rhetoric, not evidence. By that logic, anyone who opposes any tax increase at any level is morally responsible for every government program that goes unfunded. That is absurd.

[Mike, Esq. @MikePospis]

@SenSanders It's not his job to "save healthcare" (whatever that means); it's yours. The federal government spends $7+ trillion per year. If "saving healthcare" were a legislative priority, it would have been done decades ago. The gov't has a spending problem, not a revenue problem. 👎👎

[Mike, Esq. @MikePospis]

@chasisaac @PatrickHarrisSr @BernieSanders @Altanon 👍

[Mike, Esq. @MikePospis]

#happy4thofjuly #happybirthdayamerica

[Mike, Esq. @MikePospis]

@churchtalkative I see. So if one gets married at City Hall at 12 pm, sex at 11 am is "sin" while sex at 1 pm is perfectly fine? This doesn't really seem like something that the Creator of the Universe would/should be concerned with. 🤔

[Mike, Esq. @MikePospis]

@ZolaInRecovery What do you think it means to "be a trillionaire"?

[Mike, Esq. @MikePospis]

@SenWarren "Could" is doing a lot of work here. Why haven't you done this already? I don't expect any, let alone an honest, answer to this question. You are not a serious person.

[Andy @PositivFuturist]

Elon could literally solve homelessness tomorrow.

All he needs to do is sell his stake in the companies he created from the ground up, crashing the price and evaporating his wealth as well as the savings and pensions of workers globally.. handing the control of these companies over to short term profit interests and preventing any long term vision from being enacted..

THEN take whatever money that remains which will be nowhere near 1tn and give it to homeless charities who have never solved homelessness anywhere on earth because they’re financially incentivised to do the opposite.

Bam - homelessness solved.

The reason he doesn’t do any of this is because he’s evil.

[The Dad Presents @Dad_Presents]

This whole Elon “trillionaire” conversation is depressing because it reveals how economically illiterate we are.

A $1 trillion net worth does not mean Elon walked into a village, stole everyone’s bread, and locked it in a vault.

In fact, he probably consumes fewer real-world resources than the average Hollywood climate activist screaming about him from a private jet-adjacent lifestyle.

Elon built things people voluntarily use, and invested in companies that created massive value to billions of people.

The collective quality of life of society has been elevated by this man’s work.

He didn’t get handed a trillion dollars and start hoarding all the food, houses, and medicine.

Elon is a contributor. Not a taker.

Probably the biggest one alive.

Which is why he’s worth $1 trillion and the people who don’t understand that are still yelling “fair share” into their iPhones.

[Mike, Esq. @MikePospis]

@BiblicalBeauty Elon Musk et al are makers. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, et al are takers.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

It's remarkable how often the argument boils down to:

"Someone else has more than I think they should."

No fraud is alleged.

No theft is alleged.

No rights violation is identified.

Just a large number followed by a demand for the government to take it.

The entire case for a wealth tax begins with the premise that success creates a public claim on the life and property of the successful.

The disagreement isn't over economics.

It's over whether other people have a right to what they didn't create, earn, or voluntarily receive.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

They begin with, "It's dangerous that some people control too much wealth."

Then they end with, "Therefore politicians should control vastly more wealth."

The billionaire at least has to persuade customers, investors, or employees to deal with him voluntarily.

The politician just takes a percentage of everyone's income by law and decides where it goes.

So the objection isn't really to concentrated wealth.

It's to wealth concentrated outside political control.

Their solution to economic concentration is political concentration, which is usually far larger, far less accountable, and backed by force.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

American communists: "Communism doesn't oppose private property. Just look at China."

That's not communism allowing private property.

That's China reluctantly submitting to the reality that prosperity requires property rights, markets, profit, and investment.

Pointing to China's market reforms as proof communism works is like pointing to a life raft as proof the ship isn't sinking.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

Socialists look at wealthy men buying politicians and conclude the problem is the market.

Then they propose giving politicians even more power over wealth.

It's a bit like noticing the bartender waters down the drinks and deciding the solution is to let him own the distillery.

If your complaint is that government can be captured by the rich, the obvious solution is to limit what government can hand out.

Instead, socialism hands the government a larger wallet, a bigger stick, and more authority over everyone else's lives, then acts surprised when people compete to capture it.

The diagnosis is often correct.

The prescription is more of the disease.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

Taxing the rich is the belief that politicians spend money better than the people who earned it and the customers who voluntarily gave it to them.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

The double standard is doing all the work here.

When a business succeeds, employees supposedly created all the value.

When a business fails, employees suddenly had nothing to do with the outcome.

Apparently labor is responsible for all profits and none of the losses.

It's a one way ratchet designed to make labor responsible for nothing and entitled to everything.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

Rooting for the IRS is anti American. The country was founded on the idea that government exists to protect rights, not maximize revenue. Defending people from excessive taxation isn't about believing you'll become a billionaire. It's about recognizing that what belongs to someone else doesn't belong to the state.