Reporter: Are you attending your son’s wedding?
Trump: He’d like me to go. I’m going to try. I said, this is not good timing for me. I have a thing called Iran and other things. He’s a person I’ve known for a long time.
Fran Lebowitz on the billionaires: “Every time someone suggests [a wealth tax] they say I’m moving. Go! They add nothing to New York. In the 19th century, those robber barons, they employed people. All this money magic employs no one. Goodbye, go. We don’t need you”
Billionaire Sergey Brin has spent $57 million trying to kill a wealth tax in California.
Think about that.
He would rather invest $57 million to manipulate our politics than pay a small wealth tax back to the country that made him successful.
This system is so broken.
The anger over massive income and wealth inequality is NOT envy of billionaires’ yachts and jewelry.
It’s that the working class is suffering. It's that seniors living in poverty die 9 years younger than the wealthy.
Yes. We need an economy that works for ALL, not just the few.