And yet people who want raises are the drag on the fucking economy.

When has the US turned into a regime led by the supreme court? All my life, whenever something was up, you heard what the president did or tried to do or whatever. Nowadays, all headlines about the US are about something the Supreme Court with it's undemocratically elected judges gets to decide over all lawmaker's heads.

Billionaires are the real welfare queens

This is how you get nobility. Before Reagan, wealth typically dissipated by the third generation. We are heading toward the old European model, where families are rich for a millennium.

Fortunately for the billionaire class, Clarence Thomas' legal opinion is always for sale.

Societies should not allow billionaires as long as there are people who can't even get food on the table. It's just morally and ethically wrong. Some would even say unchristian.

It's a good thing ZERO Justices have taken luxurious trips and gifts paid for by these same exact billionaires that could inject literally TRILLIONS into our communities!

Fuck that’s a big boat.

Does one person seriously need a boat that big?

Like you can have a smaller boat but it still be tens of millions of dollars and not require an army to crew.

100% idle wealth tax

The solution here isn't to tax unsold goods, it's to tax the banks on all the income they're getting from these loans.

TBF we are talking about unrealized gains. Their investments are worth more on paper, but until they sell them, the actual profit or loss will fluctuate. It would be an accounting nightmare to figure tax on unsold investments every year. I do, however, think capital gains should be taxed at the same rate as wage income.

roughly 64,000 ultra-wealthy households

Get your forks and knives ready, fam. We'll be eatin' good, soon.

headline should read

they want to "PAY" the Supreme Court to keep it that way

$8.5 trillion in untaxed profits in 2022.

through unrealized capital gains.

Just to be clear, we're talking about wealth taxes, not income taxes. Yes, the wealthy have all kinds of avoiding paying fair income taxes. But, this is a different issue, this is a wealth tax.

It's important to realize, that most of the US already has a form of wealth tax: property taxes. The thing is, property taxes are a regressive form of wealth tax. Sure, the poorest people pay no property-wealth tax, because they're not wealthy enough to own taxable property. This time they do catch a slight break. Anybody who is middle-class and lucky enough to own a home pay the highest percentage of their total wealth as property-wealth taxes, because virtually all their wealth is tied up in that property. The wealthy pay almost no property-wealth taxes relative to their total wealth because only a tiny amount of their wealth is tied up in property.

If you graph it out, at the bottom the effective wealth tax is zero, then it jumps to a much higher number, then it declines more and more as you get richer and richer.

I say screw property taxes and replace them with a proper progressive wealth tax. Along with that, an inheritance tax with teeth and proper enforcement. The grandkids of billionaires should be starting on an equal footing with everyone else.

We need to tax them on a different basis once they achieve far more than is reasonable for themselves and their family.

Instead of taxing them for the value of liquidity moved into or out of their care; we should tax them based on how much their value grows each year as well as assessing any normal "wage tax" as needed.

So if you grow in net worth value by 200%, so too do your taxes grow by a certain percentage. This tax is then paid directly each year. Your losses in worth do not count, and do not decrease your taxes until several years later. This should prevent anyone from tax dodging this, as even if you only held the money for long enough to activate this tax, you still held it.

This tax also applies to companies holding, far in excess, more money than they reasonably need to operate normally. No business shenanigans should save one from being taxed for accumulating more wealth than reasonable.

While most people in the world need not fear tripping this tax, anyone who is within the top 1% should be wary of it.

"But what if I become rich... I should vote against my best interests just in case."

In terms of unrealised gains, that's kind of a tricky one. They certainly do benefit massively from unrealised gains though, like anyone would on paper.

Nobody needs this kind of wealth. You have to be a real douchbag to buy this kind of boat. Many ways to use wealth without showing off in this un tasteful way. Unfortunately most of society today loves to see rich people on tickfuck and instagram. It will only get worst.

Read a book have a beer with a friend. ok bye.

The solution is simple. Murder them and all their heirs. Begin a new Bastille Day.

Billionaires will never allow things to be fair or nicely do the right thing. People know what has to happen, it won't be via a court ruling. Plus they have class solidary and own judges/people in power.

No fucking shit

I find it super weird that there are people out there that still defend this practice while they make no money and live in a ‘trickle down’ delusion.

I’ve had numerous conversations with two of my brothers who have no money but this ridiculous ideal they are in the same box as musk and treat him like he’s vulnerable as if he represents ‘the working man’.

It's a feature, not a bug, you silly goose. Now get back to work making excess profits.

I'm gonna call this now. The Supreme Court will uphold keeping trump off the ballot. But won't allow a wealth tax, because this Supreme Court will attempt to do a "this for that" deal with the American people.

And once enough "friends" have stepped up to show their "friendship" to the iSCotUS, they'll rule as the "friends" desire.

Resetting the cost basis on death is a huge issue.