Instead of 30, 35 yachts, they will have to settle for 1 or 2, but good high quality ones.

She forgot private jets. I believe this is an easier sell to the powers that be to increase landing fees for private jets except when used for Angel flights

If kids can do with three dolls, the rich should get by with three yachts.

Tell Trump the rich should only have 2 yachts instead of 30...

Amen

Betsy DeVos has ten boats, four airplanes and two helicopters. TAX THE RICH!

My favorite AOC post...

Preach AOC

The greedy will destroy the very thing that made them rich, because all they have is their greed.

Maybe the rich can make do with 2 new yachts at christmas...

Yippers👽

… or abolish the class of billionaires altogether

On Devoss you had a typo. Bitch is spelled with a B and not an R

How about just 2 golf courses?

They can get by with 2 boats instead of 5 or 10. If kids have to get by with fewer dolls, then it's only right that everybody sacrifice what's important to them.

Agree. It should be impossible to be a billionaire. Once you hit 1 billion, 100 million goes directly toward universal health care, child care vouchers for working class parents, and programs for the disabled.

This. There is no good rich.

Maybe billionaires won't be able to afford 30 yachts, maybe only 2 of them.

More dolls. Fewer yachts!

AOC for NY senate.

I'm thinking president

Instead of 30 yachts they will have to have only 2.

The CEO for my company makes 123 times more than I do. Tax the hell out of the rich. Oh yeah. Go back to regulating stock buybacks.

This and more.

I would have loved a reporter who pushed back and said „for someone like you Mr President it would mean having 2 golf courses instead of 17?”Journalists need to do their job.

Tax em and boycott their products and services. Confused myself here. Get them taxed first. Then I will watch purchases again.

It's kinda cute how every nutsack with a Porsche thinks we're talking about him when we say tax the rich. Oh honey, you're not nearly as rich as you think 🙄

Why can't we just say we want to go back to 1950's republican tax plan that had 7 tiers with a top rate in the 90% range. It's a much easier sell.

I am sure she will be a historical figure. 👍👍

Me too: as a European she offers us a glimmer of hope that right-minded Americans will one day prevail, despite the relentless gaslighting & PsyOps of the oligarch-owned media, Fox News, etc.

Yep, she is a glimmer of hope for a lot of us here in the States, as well!

Correct!

Brilliantly spot on!

We should commandeer a few. Take them to Venezuela and spring some of our people from an enemy camp.

Tell it, Girl!

Oh, I don't know. Maybe we should confiscate these yachts, plant them in the ground, and make them into housing for the homeless. It's a better use than what they're being used for now!

Get money entirely out of politics

This is the root of all evil. We need to reconstruct our politics without any way for money to infiltrate. We will need to tax the rich heavily to repair all the damage they are doing to our country.

A big part of why this needs to happen is because it will attract different ppl to the job. Do you think MTG would ever have gone that way if it didn't mean more money? We need public servants, not greedy opportunists.

I want reparations, from anyone who enabled him

It's like they think if we come after the rich the people sitting on 7-figure 401k are gonna get hit, too. Nobody is too mad at that, just when you keep voting to protect the wealthiest of the wealthiest.

This needs to be explained often.

Maybe the oligarchs only need 3 yachts

Confiscation of all personal wealth over $1 billion and then annual income tax. No one person or family needs that much money.

Why stop there? Does anyone need more than 100k/year?

30 years ago. The answer would have been no. But today Up in Ma making 100K for two adults and a mildly disabled adult child, things get a bit tight at time, (unexpected expenses and ageism in the workplace). I know it should be different but we have to live with what is reality.

I concur. My point was more of why should the government determine the max you can make?

There are some good social reasons on why income/wealth should be capped. The biggest reason, for me, is that the more you have, the more you buy into the myth that you earned it. Labor rarely produces more than 200k per year. Rent seeking capital takes you up to Infinity with no labor from you.

This would be a recipe for lowering growth. If capital isn’t invested who will pay for labor?

It seems like a good point but labor is paid out of revenue. Investment capital pays for startup or growth. Investment Capital is rewarded with shares of stock for which they get paid dividends, the capitalist equivalent of a tax on the profits of a company.

The last one is particularly insidious. You take out a loan, go into debt, but the debt is so large that you effectively own the bank. When you die, the loan is settled for pennies on the dollar. It's like a home equity loan except when you die, you still own your house and the debt is gone.

I think this is quite rare, but it either way it takes two to tango. Why did the bank offer the loan/debt at such a risk to themselves?

Here's the simplest explanation I found. It's called buy borrow die. It's quite clever. It may be available to ordinary people as well. www.healio.com/news/hematol...

Then there's a whole raft of other financial engineering tricks to money to other parties and escape/avoid paying tax. Look up stock buybacks, loans using equities as collateral for your spending money.

The simple investment and stock relationship can be beneficial to society. However, buying stock in a secondary Market is just rent seeking. Nobody benefits except the person who bought the stock from. The company sees not $1 but The secondary Market stock earns dividends for no company benefit.

Not exactly- it reflects the true price of the stock and is immediate feedback based on performance of the company/management etc. From a practical standpoint almost no one would want to own shares in anything if they couldn’t sell them at some point.

Never said you couldn't sell it. I object to the never-ending dividends especially in the resale Market. Stocks should be more like betting on the ponies. Odds set by bookie. At the end you either get paid or you lose. You get no more money from the company unless you bet again.

It could reflect the true price of the stock if there was real-time accounting. But Information is aggregated and revealed quarterly. At which point the company stock price is either rewarded or punished based on psychological projection of the future.

A president who sells his office, through coins, sneakers, whatever so he can get foreign money he couldn't receive as donations! Greedy and no integrity!

NEITHER IS I ASS LICK hamas rapist and child murdering scum while screeching about "me too" and epstain hypocrite x bartenders

You lost me

Oh, won’t someone PLEASE think about the yacht-building companies?…

Just Brilliant

A great America has no billionaires

Amen and amen.

Strong! Forceful! Intelligent! An ignorant fool and oligarchs worst nightmare!

Maybe they will only afford 2 yachts instead of 5 yachts. Maybe they’ll have 3 houses instead of 10.

The fcked up part is if the rich paid their pay, they could still afford yachts. With tariffs in place and increasing the lower class, it has to pay. With the looming threat of losing essentially services, we'll barely be able to afford to breathe

I like the fact that one of De Vos’ yachts drifted off and nobody noticed. When you have so many yachts you can’t keep track of them!

Americans are resilient. Let's take one day at a time. We must stand united. Pessimism is contagious, and so is courage. It's for each of us to choose. Be not afraid.Trump and Maga will one day be gone. RESIST RESIST RESIST.

We need to courage to stand up to them and demand action today. We need not patience but impatience. Millions in the streets now. Millions of calls and visits to your reps now. Build the pressure now. No one is coming to save us. Act now.

One way or the other.

She only says that about usa oligarchs.