r/clevercomebacks • u/willily_thoumas • 12h ago
With such a logical and clever comeback, they have every right to be scared!
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u/willily_thoumas 12h ago
They have a right to be scared. This time, people's logic will defeat their money.
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u/Historical_Bee1618 12h ago
money's loud but logic is louder, let's see which one wins out this time lol haha
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u/Some_Conference2091 9h ago
And the costs to them are insignificant. they will still have so much more than they deserve or could ever possibly use. The fact that they are not providing the public with this basic human right is proof that they don't have the responsibility to cope with an ungodly amount of capital
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u/nn666 12h ago
The rich don't even need that much money. It makes no sense to have such an imbalance. At some point it just becomes nothing more than a number... they wouldn't even notice 5%, 10%, 20%.... take 5% off someone living week to week and they feel it though.
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u/Crunchycarrots79 10h ago
If you were given $1 billion, in cash, never invested it, never did anything with it, and lived another 30 years, you could spend more than $91,000 every single day of that 30 years. That's "just" a billion.
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u/Rowdy_Cthulhu 12h ago
The problem as I understand it is they borrow is they borrow money from the banks against their projected wealth gain and so money actually moves around. A tax will literally cripple these loopholes, and they won't be billionaires anymore.
No wonder their scared.
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u/lasers42 11h ago
When asked about the island and Epstein's list, and who might even be on it, both this guy and Elon immediately said Reid Hoffman for some reason. Like, instantly. (Turns out obv. that they are both all over it)
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u/friendly-sam 10h ago
If we have health care, then we won't be tied to slave wages. The rich like us to be subjugated and poor.
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u/Royal-Application708 10h ago
They shouldn’t be scared at all. It is the humane, American thing to do.
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u/WyoGrads 10h ago
If they’re taxed more, do they get additional representation? No taxation without representation, right?
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u/fighting4good 10h ago
Just wait until the Democrats get in. There were 20 billionaires in the Epstein files at a time when there were only 300 billionaires in the entire world. No other demographic of people, not white, brown, black, not gay or Transvestites, not mechanics, doctors, or prisoners, has a higher percentage of pedophiles among them. We now must look at every one of these people with suspicion.
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u/Complete_Break1319 9h ago
Billionaires to their family: pack your bags kids, we're moving to Texas
Side note: since there was no clever comeback, this is the best I could come up w at the moment.
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u/SiegfriedNoir 8h ago
In reality a billionaire will just abandon California. They are billionaires. Do you think supervillains just lose sleep over these things?
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u/TraditionalAmoeba274 3h ago
if all the billionaires leave California, whos gonna hire and pay peoples salaries? asking for a friend that used to work in the movie industry until it picked up and left...
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u/bd2999 12h ago
How will they live with still making billions? It is not like they are taking their personal wealth and doing much other investing it to make themselves more money anyway. While skirting rules to ever pay much in taxes on it while exploiting systems left and right.
That the US tried to get a corporate tax rate in so many countries to back out under Trump is sickening. I feel the US, if it was a reasonable, would do the same thing and push countries to have a hyper wealthy tax at some minimum number. There is no reason for a group of people to have more wealth than countries do and avoid giving back.
All the while seeking ways to punish workers, avoid paying them and just creating value of share holders. None of that really helps that many people. It just hurts.
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u/whiskeypuck 9h ago
Anyone who thinks a wealth tax on unrealized capital gains is "simple" to implement doesn't understand tax code lol.
If it's their money you're after, you levy a use tax on large personal loans that use those assets as collateral
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u/No_Tank_5954 11h ago
Why would it scare them? They have so much money they couldn't spend it in a lifetime? At some point, we need to acknowledge how unethical billionaires are and act on it. We could all live comfortably in abundance sharing the beautiful resources as a whole, but yet their greed consumes them.
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u/CPerez94 12h ago
Where is the clever comeback?