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momta

(4,157 posts)
Wed Feb 26, 2025, 12:15 PM Feb 26

Go where the money is!

DOGE claims, as of this morning, to have "saved" about $65 billion by cutting programs that are very popular and very necessary to the poorest of Americans.

If you add up the net worth of the 50 richest people in the U.S. and do a one-time tax of 2% on that wealth, it adds up to about $100 billion (according to Claude).

They need to stop taking money from the people who DON'T FUCKING HAVE ANY! If they want to steal money Dillinger-style, then they need to "go where they keep the money," in the bank accounts of the American oligarchs.

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Go where the money is! (Original Post) momta Feb 26 OP
Problem is, $100 Billion is not even a month's worth of our current deficit. Gonna have to tax more than that to Silent Type Feb 26 #1
I understand. momta Feb 26 #2

Silent Type

(8,851 posts)
1. Problem is, $100 Billion is not even a month's worth of our current deficit. Gonna have to tax more than that to
Wed Feb 26, 2025, 12:32 PM
Feb 26

do any good.

momta

(4,157 posts)
2. I understand.
Wed Feb 26, 2025, 12:42 PM
Feb 26

The point is that instead of making people who are crazy rich even richer, we could, dare I say, redistribute some of that wealth. I know it's a dirty word, but it's better than what they think they're doing now.

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