Wall Street Journal: “The wealthiest have gotten richer, and control a record share of America’s wealth. New data suggest $1 trillion of wealth was created for the 19 richest American households alone in 2024.”
“That is more than the value of Switzerland’s entire economy.”
The US billionaire techbros' space adventures continue.
While Musk still fancies Mars as an escape plan from a dying earth, Jeff Bezos is about to launch his fiance, the heavily botoxed Lauren Sanchez, and five other women including Katy Perry (WTF?) into some sort of PR stunt / low orbit joyride.
If Bezos paid tax this stunt would be fully tax deductible, of course.
Would it be cynical to wish them all a rapid unscheduled disassembly?
Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor on 'The rise of end times fascism'.
How US techbros are teaming with eugenicists & religious fundamentalists to isolate themselves from the end times. Survivalism for the super-wealthy.
Trump's creating 10 “freedom cities” on federal lands. No regulation, no taxes, only billionaires need apply. Seasteading moves onto land.
The people who are destroying our planet are making serious plans for the apocalypse.
I want to see porn where Bill Ackman watches his portfolio collapse, his customers dump him, and he cries uncontrollably, with snot running from his nose and hiccups.
When you’ve lost Disney…
Disney heiress says any billionaire who can’t manage to share their wealth is ‘kind of a sociopath’ https://fortune.com/2025/04/07/abigail-disney-heiress-philanthropy-billionaires-share-wealth-sociopath-mackenzi-scott/
Billionaires are the real national security threat.
Under Trump and Musk, billionaires wield unprecedented influence over US national security
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/trump-musk-billionaires-influence-national-security
@s_unter
Schön gesagt, da geh ich voll mit.
Die Mütterrente gibts aber überall, nicht nur in Bayern. Ist meiner Meinung nach nicht das beste Beispiel für CxU-Unsinn:
Ein sehr wichtiger - wenn auch leider nur für einen sehr speziellen, aber zweifellos hoch benachteiligten Teil der Bevölkerung - finanzieller Ausgleich mit sozialem Anspruch.
Why are billionaires?
In today's episode of 'End of the US Empire' Larry Ellison wants to put all American's data, including health records & DNA, into a big Oracle system for AI to "study".
Of course the ultimate goal is constant, real-time surveillance of a population, which Ellison suggests will keep everyone "on their best behavior." How's that working out for the Uyghurs then?
Lord save us from US eugenicist nazi billionaires.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/larry_ellison_wants_all_data/
People across the country are fed up with both parties bowing down to billionaires. They want to tax the rich now. They want to keep Social Security and expand Medicare. They are sick and tired of corporate greed running rampant in our policy-making.
In a democracy, power should be in the hands of workers, community members, and democratically accountable representatives—not billionaires who are trying to enrich themselves at our expense. —Rashida Tlaib, congresswoman. #USPol #USPolitics #politics #democracy #Billionaires #TaxBillionaires #equity #ClassWar #PowerToThePeople
The #WealthGap isn’t just growing - it’s exploding. Wages stagnate while profits soar.
A few billionaires control more wealth than all the other people combined - and with that, billionaires control politics and who is in government!
#UBI doesn’t “punish success” - it ensures #everyone has a chance to succeed. Because no one should have to beg for basic survival in the richest era in history.
It’s on - time to break up the 2 party system. Chip in or donate to get us there over the next 5 weeks! #remah4moreton #auspol #taxbillionaires
Ultra-Rich: Would you rather pay some tax or be eaten? We can go either way...
IRS will lose millions as Trump and Musk scurry to cut taxes for rich pals
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/3/24/2312245/-IRS-will-lose-millions-as-Trump-and-Musk-scurry-to-cut-taxes-for-rich-pals
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick thinks those who complain about missing Social Security checks are probably criminals. That’s insane.
On Social Security, Trump Cabinet secretary inadvertently gives away the game
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/social-security-trump-cabinet-secretary-inadvertently-gives-away-game-rcna197743
We are free today substantially, but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be an impossibility because wealth will be concentrated in the hands of a few. A Republic cannot stand upon bayonets, and when the day comes when the wealth of the nation will be in the hands of a few, then we must rely upon the wisdom of the best elements in the country to readjust the laws of the nations to the changed conditions.
—James Madison
taxes the rich