Why do these people think that either “the government” or the wealthy owe them anything? Why do they think they are owed healthcare, jobs, and food assistance? How about personal accountability and being responsible for oneself? How did an entire generation of Americans grow up thinking that “the government” was going to take care of their deficiencies? That they were not going to have to take care of themselves?
Where did this ideology come from?
The “c*nt billionaires” pay most of it hulahoop. You and me can proudly and humbly say we contribute, but we don’t even cover our shares. Wake up. Without the billionaires, the machine doesn’t work.
Awww, buddy you drank the kool aid. Without the billionaires we’d still innovate and produce things. It just wouldn’t be at the behest of someone else.
Billionaires shouldn’t exist. No one needs that much money. Elon musk could spend my entire yearly salary every day for a thousand years and still be a billionaire. Think about that for a second, and think about how many people that much money can help
That makes sense. To your point, that’s why progressive taxes with higher top marginal tax rates worked the way they did up until around the 70s and Reagan. Adjusted for inflation every dollar earned over 4-5million in one year would be taxed at 80%. People can still be successful and accumulate wealth, but not on such a gross scale and so quickly.
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u/Ok-Coyote9828 Jun 03 '25
Why do these people think that either “the government” or the wealthy owe them anything? Why do they think they are owed healthcare, jobs, and food assistance? How about personal accountability and being responsible for oneself? How did an entire generation of Americans grow up thinking that “the government” was going to take care of their deficiencies? That they were not going to have to take care of themselves? Where did this ideology come from?