Sergey Brin has made $140 billion since Trump was elected.
If California passes its one-time 5% wealth tax, he would owe $14 billion and still be worth $270 billion.
So what is he doing? Spending $100 million to defeat the proposal.
FIGHT OLIGARCHY. TAX BILLIONAIRE WEALTH.
The effective federal corporate income tax rate:
1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%
Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.
That is how we will pay for it.
I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.
We’re obsessed with the idea that poor people might take more than they need, but we never question why the super rich are never satisfied with what they already have.
Martha Stewart went to prison for saving herself $45,673 using an illegal stock tip.
Donald Trump traded stocks 3,700 times between Jan—Mar of this year, totaling between $220–$750 million, and used the presidency to make his stocks go up… And he’s walking around a free man.
I simply could not imagine being in congress and staying silent as Trump builds a slush fund of $1.776 (cute right… 1776) billion dollar slush fund for insurrrectionists.
What are these people even there for?
History will be brutal to them. And their kids will be embarrassed
George H.W. Bush kept his assets in a blind trust, as did Bill Clinton. Neither Obama nor Biden traded stocks or bonds while in office. 3,700 trades is probably more than all the trades of all the presidents until now. And he is trading stocks that are affected by his decisions. A walking conflict of interest, at the least, and perhaps insider trading. Just as members of Congress should not be able to trade stocks, so too the president. https://t.co/yDqVXWfDgc
"Taxpayers are footing a whopping $1 billion bill for Trump's ballroom. Your budget cuts the National Park Service by $1 billion. If you put this $1 billion towards our national parks instead of Trump's ballroom, that would benefit every single American."
Watched a little of CNN's coverage last night and heard them talking about how even though no one got killed, part of the trauma of shooting events is the psychological damage of being through that situation...
You are a country that puts 5 year olds through live shooter drills.
According to a recent poll, 77% of voters support raising taxes on billionaires.
Maybe, just maybe, at a time of unprecedented income and wealth inequality, it’s time for Congress to listen to the American people and pass a wealth tax on billionaires.
How the fuck do we live on a planet where Martha Stewart spent 5 months in jail for a dodgy $45,000 stock market deal but Trump and his sons make billions and billions using blatant manipulation via their genocidal war and not one US Democrat or large media org is saying jack shit?
#NewsCorpse