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@B8CXWDR DisagreementsCounter Arguments7mos ago

There is no way for a single person to spend the amount of money that many billionaires have amassed, there is also no ethical way for them to have that much money. Wealth hoarding is inherently unethical and even getting to the point where you can hoard money is impossible without unethical practices. Taxing nearly 100% on money over a certain amount, probably a couple billion dollars, would help distribute wealth and decrease our national debt.

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 @B8D22XSRepublican from Kentucky  agreed…7mos7MO

Why is earning and keeping my own money considered greedy, but not when someone else wants to take what I earned.

 @B8DT74T from Ohio  agreed…7mos7MO

I agree with this comment about Taxes. With no ethical way for someone to amass that amount of money, why should it be legal to have it?

 @B8DZ5J5  from Pennsylvania  agreed…7mos7MO

Yes, and especially as we're on route to see the first modern trillionaires. There is no point in having that much money except to watch other people suffer in poverty.

 @B8DHGSM from Michigan  agreed…7mos7MO

I feel like this is true, and the more amarcain need to wake up because we are not the greatest we are probably not even the richest in the world.

 @B8DFLBV from Washington  agreed…7mos7MO

I nearly 100% agree. I think if you tax 100% people would be outraged at the "communist" behavior, but I think at a certain point it should be upwards of like 80%, use that money to better your employees and citizens who live in the same country as you. those spineless billionaire CEOs should be held responsible.

 @B8DDL9L from Wisconsin  agreed…7mos7MO

Billionaires should be taxed way more because of the fact that they can just throw money away and be unaffected. The common person should not have to pay as much as they currently do.

 @B8DS3S4 from Georgia  agreed…7mos7MO

I believe that the more rich you are the more taxed you should be and the less financially fortunate should not be taxed because it solves nothing to tax them of what little they have

 @B8DS4CKPeace and Freedom from Minnesota  agreed…7mos7MO

I agree that ethical billionaires don't exist, but taxing 100 percent wouldn't work because their assets aren't liquidated.

 @B8DV8RN from Michigan  agreed…7mos7MO

Yes, 100%. Elon Musk alone has the money to give to every single person on Earth. He doesn't need all that money, and neither do other billionaires.

 @B8DP35D  from South Carolina  agreed…7mos7MO

I 100% agree with this, there is no such thing as an ethical billionaire. especially when there are people in poverty who don't have the bare necessities [shelter, food, water, clothing, healthcare]. When the last tree has been cut down and the last stream is poisoned, you cannot eat money. Eat the rich.

 @B8DV8RN from Michigan  agreed…7mos7MO

Yes, 100%. Elon Musk alone has the money to give to every single person on Earth. He doesn't need all that money, and neither do other billionaires.

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