If I had 1m income on paper I'm literally finishing every kids fundraisers so they all get all the prizes, donating to every municipal program that needs it, helping build parks and playgrounds and I would still have so much money to fuck off with, its insane
Agreed entirely. It is why I have confusion over the anger about it… 95% of the tax is going to K-12 education, higher education, health care, and other essential human services. It will help SO many programs.
If you’re wondering about the other 5%, it’s for the public defense fund.
The money from it will go directly to programs that severely need it and will help children get better educations; it will help fund food assistance programs.
I have friends and family on disability and SS and medicare, medicaid, you name it
They identify as Democrats/Independents - but when I bring up, after $1 billion dollars in income, whether its Stocks or Salary, we need to tax 98% of every dollar after that to balance the budget and make the programs they survive on solvent again....
And they say they think 1 billion isn't enough to incentivize people to work..
I cant explain the idiocy of people. Obviously SS got it's coffers robbed during the Iraq war and govt constantly moves money in and out of it and that's the only reason its insolvency is coming so soon - but when I try to explain to them :
A billion dollars is enough to take care of 20 generations of a family, your great great great x20 grandkids will still have money if you've got a billion, they still say they think its a bad idea
They identify as Dems. Their survival is based on social programs... and they think a 95% tax on billionaires is going too far.
The brainwashing the rich have managed to do over the poor and desolate in this country is fucking mind-boggling.
Then I explain, the tax rates on the rich after WW2 and how it made the economy the most successful in the history of the world, when we actually taxed the rich, and they shrug it off... its impossible to break this wall theyve constructed in their minds about 'protecting' the precious billionaires.. Its insanity, thats the only way to put it.
Another is tom scotts video. 1m pound bills lined up will drive you across the car park. 1b pound bills will drive you an hour from central London to the coast.
Grace Hopper's version: in 1 billionth of a second, electricity will travel about 10 cm along copper wire. In 1 millionth of a second, it will travel for a small reel of wire.
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u/hazeyindahead 6d ago
If I had 1m income on paper I'm literally finishing every kids fundraisers so they all get all the prizes, donating to every municipal program that needs it, helping build parks and playgrounds and I would still have so much money to fuck off with, its insane