The phrase “tax the rich” can be “just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs”, according to the New York City billionaire Steve Roth, who said that the top 1% should be “praised and thanked”.
Speaking on his company’s quarterly earnings call on Tuesday, Roth, the CEO of Vornado Realty Trust, expressed his support for fellow billionaire and the CEO of Citadel, Ken Griffin, who was singled out in the 15 April announcement by New York’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, of the state’s first “pied-à-terre” tax on second homes valued at more than $5m. In a video, Mamdani announced the policy in front of Griffin’s penthouse, which he said was purchased for $238m.
“We are all shocked that our young mayor would pull this stunt in front of Ken’s home and single him out for ridicule,” Roth said. “This was both irresponsible and dangerous.”
Edit: Mamdani’s video that sparked this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLKZnVB4F9k
Source: https://www.moralambition.org/stories/tax-fairness-explainerAlso, the above graph compares averages vs averages. The average of the top bracket is made up of some very rich people who accept that paying taxes is a fair thing to do, and some who try to contribute as little as possible by evading as much as possible. Because he’d prefer us to not talk about this, I have the suspicion that Mr Steve Roth falls into the 2nd category.
Man with more money than he could possibly use in his life is upset at the suggestion that some portion of the money he will never used could be used to help other people.
Being a billionaire is a sign of mental illness and needs to start being treated as such.
Financial obesity
Oh, I think he’ll like this inevitable outcome then.
Mamdani is choosing the lesser evil here my dear rich person… The other options is: we kill you.
Add him to The List.
We really should make a list. Not like in list format, something more durable like baking it into some type of meme.
I dont think it is a slur. To be rich is even to this day associated with good qualities.
in other words, the word rich doesnt reflect reality and we have to weed it out
I think grabber is more suitable, because they grab property away from the commons.
Release the grip!
Just to highlight that as a real estate magnate, his entire empire is built on rent-seeking, i.e. accumulating wealth by the hoarding of a limited resource, without having created anything of value.
This billionaire did not create a billion dollars of value for society, even indirectly; he only took it from others.
“Tax the rich” is the 99% being nice. We could go the France in 1792 route.
If that’s true, then we are using it right. I’d only use a slur on beings that are less than human and ultra rich fit that pereftly. And as well read as the rich are, they know what happens when a being is considered less than human. >:D
makes sense, rich people are the only truly protected class
lynch him
off with his head
Eat himmmmm.
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
That’s pretty funny because the phrase doesn’t actually have a negative meaning. It’s a policy proposal at face value and at depth and that’s it. Doesn’t say the rich or bad people, although many of them are, doesn’t say that nobody should be rich, doesn’t even say how much they should be taxed.
And certainly nobody should be thanking the top 1%. We all know that they got there by lying and cheating and stealing and inheriting wealth.
“TAX” is going to be the softest, most palateable verb that will be done to them, the alternatives are a little less polite.
“Oh, would you prefer ‘torture and execute’ then?” Lmao
My favourite phrase, or at least one that’s given me a glimmer of hope for the future is “They will have to invent a new word for what the people are going to do to those responsible.”
Torture And eXecute
… “Torcute”?
Needs an x to sound scary
