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91 points

They can live, but it has to be on 60k a year, with all of their initial assets liquidated and used to support people in need.

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35 points

60k a year is probably already too generous in most cases, make them live off of the equivalent salary of their lowest paid employee

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yeah i’m fine with that but not murder like a lot of people here say they want

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65 points

I think most of us start with the assumption that they’ll never give up their stranglehold willingly, and move on to more practical solutions.

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34 points

They need to make the choice: pay a lot more taxes, or take the second option. I’m not threatening violence, but as our society gets more desperate the targets on their backs get larger.

There are 756 billionaires in the US and 330 million of us. Once that becomes clear to people things might change, one way or the other. All other “culture wars” are noise generated to distract from this one.

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11 points

practical

Ah, teenagers

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9 points

To a billionaire that fate is worse than being murdered.

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Look I’m all for taxing the wealthy, but saying we should force billionaires, or really anyone for that matter, to give up everything more than $60k/year is fucking laughably insane.

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Why, exactly? Only two years ago, 37.9 million people were below the poverty line, which is only $20k/yr. And that’s only counting the US. If we can do it, they can do it.

If those making over $60k currently cannot make it work when so many of their own countrymen have been doing so for their entire lives, perhaps we need to talk. If nothing else, I can give you financial advice.

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Nice red herring. The argument was that demanding a billionaire give up all of their money and live on a relatively small salary is absurd, and nothing you said refutes that.

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