Greer Dove’s days are packed with studying business and finance, as well as doing administrative work at college, along with caring for her eight-year-old daughter with special needs. But once a week, Dove, a single mother, makes sure to drop in at the food bank in California’s Marin County to pick up vegetables, fruit and other food. Along with the federal government’s food benefits, they keep her housing running. “We need this so we can keep functioning at a high level,” she says. “She loves fruit, so I make sure to get it,” she says of her daughter.
Dove, who is also looking for a full-time job, has worked in restaurants, event management, retail, television shows, office administration and payroll over the years. But she has been on the federal government’s Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) for six years, and with the food bank, for more than three years. Before she got food benefits, Dove fed her daughter all she had and skipped meals or looked around for snacks in the offices she worked at to get her through the day.
If calling for a billionaire tax is hate speech, then I am an out and proud fucking bigot.
Starving children to make white men and pick me Indians fat and fed. Fuck them.
Edit: Please explain to me why Rick Scott, who grew up in poverty on this shit is so hellbent on pulling up the ladder behind him…
Because you only get to the top by stabbing others in the back to step up. The natural consequence is that only the bad people are on top. The rest of us have morals. We all know how this ends.
Well. Having morals did help one person get to the top. But then everything went side ways with him after.
His name was Jimmy Carter and he proved that good, just people just aren’t able to make it work at the top.
Its not the only way its just what the system encourages. It all depends on the person if they fully go through with it
But we spend trillions on murdering people in foreign countries and flexing. If only we could find the money for Healthcare, education, and feeding the hungry. Oh well, guess its time to spend hundreds of millions on giant ballroom for a giant D.
If this becomes a State’s rights thing we are probably going to see some more horrible shit in the South.
People don’t really talk about what generational wealth really means down here. Chattel slavery is their God given right. Jim Crow was their -meet you in the middle". They believe they have been the victim of the largest property theft of all time.
It’s not going to work. Billionaires will simply leave California resulting in less tax revenue.
Some will, but why would California want to keep around useless leeches that take from local services and dont contribute to society at all? California is one of the most desirable locations for the rich to live on the planet. It is propaganda produced by morons that they dont have the power to cash in on that. Believe it or not, but these taxes will make california even more economically competitive as the money is reinvested into infrastructure and human capital instead of yachts. Its insane how badly conservatives have brain washed people into thinking looting public coffers for the rich is the only way to run an economy. Very few fled New York when Mamdani was elected, and almost nobody will do shit about California taxing the rich correctly.
Since they have higher income, they pay more taxes. If they leave, that revenue will be gone. The rich do not have to flee New York, just NYC, but some will leave the state and take their businesses with them. See https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/smallbusiness/michael-goodwin-socialist-mamdani-s-tax-the-rich-war-cry-will-only-hurt-new-york/ar-AA22O4pf
Since they have higher income, they pay more taxes.
Citation very much needed, because lol no they don’t. Their propaganda sure worked on you, though.
In fact they hire people to find every loophole they can so they pay as little as possible, often less than us working class stiffs pay. Absolutely less as a percentage of total, if not in absolute numbers, tho usually in absolute numbers as well.
Then they will find a way to circumvent paying the billionaire tax.
You might think so, but that’s not what happens. Also, fuck them if they won’t pay their fair share. Good riddance to the fucking ghouls.
Such proposals have raised predictable outrage from the rich, along with threats that they’ll move elsewhere where taxes are lower and dire predictions that their fellow plutocrats will refuse to move in.
Yet there’s scant evidence for these consequences. In fact, when Massachusetts passed a “millionaires tax” in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee. But two years later, they haven’t — and Massachusetts has collected $5.7 billion for infrastructure and public education. -Robert Reich
Let’s make it happen in every state!! We got this!!!
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From https://finance.yahoo.com/news/only-6-billionaires-left-california-073000585.html
Six of California’s 214 billionaires have been widely reported to have left the state in time to avoid a proposed 5% wealth tax—but that small cohort would have collectively generated $27 billion in tax revenue, roughly a fourth of the initiative’s projected $100 billion haul.
So there’s still an expected $73 billion in tax from the remaining billionaires.
That’s $73 billion more than without that tax.
How is that not a good result?They might leave. States such as Texas and Florida are probably encouraging them to come.
Let them go.
Nothing of value will be lost.
They always threaten to, but they never actually do.
Should NYC take that chance?
Why not? All the regular people who actually pay tax will remain.
Because if they go they, they might not return.
…okay? Good riddance, then.
Do you think or even have proof that billionaires pay tax?
They rather spend the money on ways that help them avoid doing so.If that’s the case, how would the billionaire tax be effective?
They hide their income so they don’t pay tax. This is a wealth tax. On their wealth. Like the middle class pays with their property tax.
California tax is based on income. Consequently, the more income the higher the tax.
They will tax the wealth, not the income which is legally zero because they borrow money against it.
In addition to concerns surrounding capital flight, there are numerous other concerns with imposing a wealth tax. For starters, it can be very difficult to value a taxpayer’s wealth. Naturally, a stock and securities portfolio maintains accurate valuations on a regular basis. However, real estate assets have much looser valuations, and some assets like artwork require professional assessments. When considering the entire portfolio of assets for California’s billionaires, it remains unclear as to how expensive it might be to value a taxpayer’s wealth accurately, not to mention how long it will be litigated once that taxpayer inevitably argues the valuation. Additionally, enforcing a wealth tax can create liquidity problems for taxpayers as they might have to sell assets to meet the tax liabilities, and it could lead to substantial tax planning that results in the taxpayers gaming the system, and thus, the proposal would not have the intended effect.
Then you pass an exit tax law. Norway did this. 38%.
Media is constantly telling us we need to succumb to blackmail of billionaires leaving.
The most common issue raised by skeptics of wealth taxes is “capital flight”. As discussed in a Tax Notes article, “such a tax would signal to wealthy taxpayers that they should reside elsewhere.” This article goes on to discuss that high-income taxpayers pay the majority of state income taxes in California, and even if a small number of those individuals leave, it could lead to long-term tax collection consequences.
This concern has been underscored by numerous academic studies. Most recently, an NBER working paper co-authored by Jakobsen, Kleven, Kolsrud, Landais, and Munoz finds that 1 one percentage-point increase in the top wealth tax rate in Sweden and Denmark leads to an outward migration of wealthy taxpayers by two percent. Other work in the American Economic Review by Moretti and Wilson documents that variation in jurisdictional taxes significantly influences the location of talent, suggesting that higher tax burdens lead individuals to relocate.
