Graham Platner: “We should never tax someone into poverty. We should also still raise taxes on billionaires and corporations. Bezos wants us to think if you raise his individual taxes, that money isn’t going to pay for all the things you want. That’s why we’re not raising it just on you. We’re raising it on all 930 billionaires in the US. It’s why we’re also not just going after your income, but the wealth as well. The wealth they sit on, the wealth they never actually bring into the real world so they never pay capital gains on it, but they borrow against it so they can have liquidity. Of course Jeff Bezos is gonna tell us if we raise his taxes things won’t get better. He doesn’t want us to raise his taxes. He’s a greedy person. That makes perfect sense to me that he would say that. He’s just entirely wrong and self-serving”
Introducing @blowbackpod's NEW mini-series: No Daylight.
A history of the turbulent moments in the US-Israel relationship that drops Spring 2026, from me and @deep_beige
They want you to own nothing. They want you to rent your car, your house, your entire life from them, from a billionaire class that owns everything around you.
That's their ideal future, and we can't let them have it.