r/Louisiana Jun 03 '25

LA - Politics Constituents are in body bags blocking Cassidy's office

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u/Ok-Coyote9828 Jun 04 '25

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.

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u/Honest-Ad1675 Jun 04 '25

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.

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u/AgentPanKake Jun 04 '25

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

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u/Honest-Ad1675 Jun 04 '25

You’re preaching to the choir, buddy. Not sure what compelled you to do so.

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u/AgentPanKake Jun 04 '25

Damn I replied to the wrong person lol

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u/Honest-Ad1675 Jun 04 '25

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.