Should billionaires be outlawed?

[OddBeMe]

Yes

No

[Kelley1]

I don't care how much they earn. Instead, I want to limit how much they can pass on to their family members who have done nothing to earn their wealth. I don't want to tax their wealth. Instead, let them build hospitals, museums, art galleries, stadiums, building, sanctuaries for wildlife. Things they can put their names on to be remembered. However, their children and grandchildren didn't earn it so they are not much more deserving then other children.

However, if they can pass their wealth on, it is like taking us back the age of commoners and nobility. Let their children inherit one to ten million. That is plenty for a good life but it is not enough for only a few to inherit all the wealth of the country and create a class of a few nobles and the rest of us poor commoners.

[Tamera952]

Not outlawed, …just taxed a whole bunch!!! Plain and simple.

[Luopio27]

No. Just prevention laws from anyone else becoming another billionaire. But the only ones that deserve to be millionaires are those who risks their lives so others could live!


This includes:

• Coast Guards
• Cops
• Soldiers (in conflict zones)
• Firefighters

Pretty much all those fields were the risk of dying to protect the people is real. They do what they do, so others may live!

[SmokinAces2000]

Up to some extent. there's no reason for someone to have 100s of billions of dollars.

[NaultD]

We've given the higher end of the rich a fair share of time like a 100 years to show the rich charity activism they preached about.

All we got were billionairs at a faster spin to trillionairs with even them having miserable lifes. Everyone is bullying me who can't afford eggs or the switch 2 games.

At this point it's for the billionairs own good. It's honestly that bad anymore.

[MuddyMole]

"Outlawed" is a strange choice of word, but "taxed out of existence", yes, absolutely.

[alice55]

Simply forbbid any human from having more than X money

[OddBeMe]

They don’t need it. They’d be forced to pump it into their companies like they should.

[alice55]

same things

[jshm2]

They are largely an unnecessary class these days. AI can do most of their job... and cost less too.

[DryGermanGuy]

Why not simply tax them like in the good old days?

[NoDecision]

But they should pay their own share of taxes. 😠

[Anonymous]

Why not simply tax them like in the good old days?

Because they find creative loopholes and bribe politicians like AOC to avoid tax.

[goaded]

Congratulations, you chose the politician least likely to be bribed to protect the rich as an example. Why is that?

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded wearing $10,000 dresses gifted to her, I'm sure.

[goaded]

Let me know when legislation comes up that directly affects fashion designers. How much do you think she could sell a used dress for, anyway?

[OddBeMe]

OP: I’m guessing SCOTUS corruption doesn’t bother you a bit

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded corruption is corruption. She listed as being worth $30,000 despite being a Congress woman for 6 years with zero expenses. I smell a rat. I'd bet that her husband or family member gets a donation to a foundation or charity or she gets a board seat after she retires at $500,000 per year.

[goaded]

$30,000? Are you kidding? "zero expenses"? Ditto? Do you know how much it costs to rent in DC?

[goaded]

She's on $174,000 annual pay and saved $30,000 over six years!

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded Food, housing, utilities, everything is a business expense, exorbitant salaries, free health care and free transportation so either she's financially incompetent or she's lying?
Wait and see, eventually there will be a scandal involving her finances and where she lives and how she lives so big just like Bernie, Waters, Warren and Pelosi

[goaded]

Of course you'd never mention a Republican. Troll.

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded think Republicans aren't generally pretending that they want to "tax the rich", especially in a $20,000 dress. If a Republican had a reported net worth of $30,000 we'd all call bullshit because its well known that even wothout being corrupt Congress is a gravy train. Earning $174,000 a year and only having $30,000 after 6 years even without being in Congress wed think you were a gambler, junky or alcoholic, can't blame the wage gap for that.

[goaded]

Oh, look, the lie about the dress just doubled.

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded apologies I meant the Gala which she attended which cost $35,000 per ticket, obviously she was gifted the "ticket". Like most champagne socialists she has expensive tastes and believes that socialism is for the poor. That's why she drives around in an expensive Tesla made by non union labor by the richest man in the world.
Look at her fight the oligarchy tour and how many flights she took on private jets and the hafmful emissions released into the environment, I guess the new green revolution and climate change is only something the plebs need worry about.

[exitseven]

why should success be punished. We are not Democrats. Well , not me anyway.

[Anonymous]

No and also many millionaires and billionaires voluntarily do donate to charity

[OddBeMe]

At an average 5%. Poor people donate on average 10-15%

[Opinion Owner]

Still they earnt there money by working or at least one of their family members earnt that money by working and they inherited it. It’s their money so their choice. They pay taxes and taxes go towards helping people in need.

[TwoToTooTutu2]

No, but social order should be restored. And they would vanish over time.

[CaptainSmartass]

Nope. Activists and politicians should be banned.

Simples...

[blackeagle007]

They aren’t apparently. Look at corrupt republicans.

[msc545]

helll yes - they use their monry to BUY politicians.

[Sevenpointfive]

[Anonymous]

No way, we would all love to be billionaires.

[Babebytheshore85]

Not if they're contributing to society.

[OddBeMe]

They’re really not. There sucking our economy.

[Babebytheshore85]

@OddBeMe okay then stop buying cars, don't buy a house, don't eat food, don't go to the grocery story and don't buy from Amazon. Just starve and die. Who do you think created the Industries I've listed? Billionaires. Think before speak

[lightbulb27]

stop buying their crap...

[Dargil]

Should D/S/C's be outlawed?

[Sal_Monella]

Poverty should be outlawed. Good luck with either.

[noohair]

Outlaw morons...

[seeyounexttuesday]

No..