@BennieGThompson You will forever be associated with the stink of that Jan 6 investigation. Destroying documents proved what everyone thought. You’re corrupt. You’re a disgrace.
@RepJasonCrow Democrats have been stealing money from hard working Americans for decades. Now they’re trying to tax whatever Americans have been able to save. Vote this idiot out.
You say you make the philosophical case. I read the essay. There is no philosophy in it. There is arithmetic, and there is need.
The one premise doing all the work is never argued: that one man's need constitutes a claim on another man's property. It doesn't. Need is not a mortgage on the life of the man who fulfilled his.
You say the tax "asks" billionaires for 5%. A tax does not ask. If it asked, it would be philanthropy. It compels — and your entire moral posture depends on the reader not noticing the difference.
You call it a "social contract." A contract requires consent. A decree written by Congress and imposed on 938 people who never signed it is not a contract. It is force wearing a contract's clothes.
And your proudest boast is your most damning admission: Newsom taxes transactions — you tax OWNERSHIP itself. Stock never sold. Value never realized. Not "we tax what you do," but "we tax what you are."
You welcomed an argument on the merits. Here it is: a man's success is not a public asset, and no number of people needing his property converts it into theirs.
That is the moral test of our time. You are failing it.
@NYCMayor You balanced the budget by receiving a Bailout from a desperate governor Hochul. It seems that socialist trash lies just as well as a typical Democrat.
@MarkWarner We apparently have drunks, drug addicts and sexual predators in congress and you want to cry about Trump’s family making money. Good grief.