Tax the Rich
By Akhilleus
Saw this online. Thought I’d pass it along. The numbers check out, although some sources put Zuckerberg’s 2011 wealth at $13.5 B and Bezos’ 2021 wealth at $211 B, both of which are even more outrageous.
“Wealth of Elon Musk
2011: $2,000,000,000
2021: $271,500,000,000
“Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg
2011: $17,500,000,000
2021: $121,900,000,000
“Wealth of Jeff Bezos
2011: $18,100,000,000
2021: $203,100,000,000
“U.S. Minimum Wage
2011: $7.25
2021: $7.25
“Three words: tax the rich”
Reader Comments (3)
Each of those three inhabit a world where wealth isn't money anymore. It's an accounting exercise where the earnings of a middle class family aren't even a rounding error.
Context for Musk's anti-tax-the-statements.
https://www.wral.com/heres-how-elon-musks-fortune-has-benefited-from-taxpayer-help/19981058/?version=amp
We need a much bigger word for "irony" when billionaires complain about taxes...
Maybe reported this here before. If so, apologies, but the story bears repeating...
Via Zoom, listened in on a legislatively appointed Washington State tax reform panel a month or so back. The discussion ranged from the expected regressive to progressive poles. Little new, actually but the remark of one person complaining about high property taxes on his two homes, one here in WA, the other in CA caught my attention. I wrote down his name and looked him up.
A retired Starbucks VP. Took days for my tears to stop flowing...
I hear the sound of money –-the song sung in 'Cabaret '–-never enough, always wanting more and playing with it like in the game Monopoly –-sans the Go to Jail card. And somewhere there's the waitress who works (two shifts) feeding others while her two children sometimes go hungry. Her husband is in jail for selling pot–-a side job for him since his janitor salary wasn't enough. And somewhere Ken's Starbuck buckaroo is still yummering about property taxes.