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The phrase “tax the rich” can be “just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs”, according to the New York City billionaire Steve Roth, who said that the top 1% should be “praised and thanked”.
Speaking on his company’s quarterly earnings call on Tuesday, Roth, the CEO of Vornado Realty Trust, expressed his support for fellow billionaire and the CEO of Citadel, Ken Griffin, who was singled out in the 15 April announcement by New York’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, of the state’s first “pied-à-terre” tax on second homes valued at more than $5m. In a video, Mamdani announced the policy in front of Griffin’s penthouse, which he said was purchased for $238m.
“We are all shocked that our young mayor would pull this stunt in front of Ken’s home and single him out for ridicule,” Roth said. “This was both irresponsible and dangerous.”
Edit: Mamdani’s video that sparked this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLKZnVB4F9k
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Lol chop chop, guoillo-bait
losing only 8% sounds fair
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motherfucker is a literal Skeksis
irresponsible and dangerous
For whom? The mayor? Isn’t that a threat?
Waaah wahh
These people are lucky. No ones eaten them yet.
From the crowd that came up with gems as “bank accounts are citizenship”, “transactions are free speech” and “attorney fees are justice”. Comes the latest madness “tax is a hate crime”.
Perhaps he would prefer “Eradicate the rich.”
(Through even more taxation, of course.)
Or guillitines. Or Luigi. Look, I’m not really picky on how we make the streets flow with a river of their blood. Dealers choice really.
Yesss
I just said this in another thread but I’ll repair it here.
Once no one is rich, everyone will be.
Tax that peckerwood until he starts singing spirituals.
“I’m afraid of the poors!”
Boys, we have them right where we want them.
A wealth tax a day keeps the guillotine away.
Bitch, taxing the rich is the humane option
Yeah, heading towards just taking it all, and leaving them destitute, and if they don’t like it, they can think about it in prison, if they’re lucky to survive that long.
They enjoy their wealth at the pleasure of the Citizens, and those who don’t handle their wealth responsibly, will have it removed.
Leaving them destitute is much more polite than the alternative too. That basically requires them to comply, which I assume they won’t. If it comes down to other actions being taken, because the systems aren’t doing their job, it’ll require some level of violence.
How easy or violent it has to be is entirely up to them. If they want violence, we can oblige them, but they’ll still lose their money, and their family may not survive it.
I’d be willing to accept the… Alternative
Because of……the implication.
In france this would not work out
I get the feeling we’re getting closer to starting to spit roast them.
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I actually meant it in the literal sense, but these days I’m sure there’s a few people who would. 🤮
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my dude it’s been like 500, 600 years. there are better ways to get things doner
I feel like Mr. Roth has forgotten that being taxed is the alternative we came up with to beheadings for the upper class when they got too rich and powerful.
Yeah… tax the rich is the nicest thing we could be saying… they’ve definitely forgotten…
Guillotine the rich
Ooh, he’s definitely not gonna like that one.
I’d vote for you
Shittydwarf for comptroller!
This sack of shit is a caricature, it’s vomit inducing just to look at him
Just to highlight that as a real estate magnate, his entire empire is built on rent-seeking, i.e. accumulating wealth by the hoarding of a limited resource, without having created anything of value.
This billionaire did not create a billion dollars of value for society, even indirectly; he only took it from others.
