Bitch, taxing the rich is the humane option

Guillotine the rich

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.

Waaah wahh

These people are lucky. No ones eaten them yet.

Perhaps he would prefer “Eradicate the rich.”

(Through even more taxation, of course.)

"He will learn over time that growing a tax base is a winner and raising taxes is a loser … and that the hard-working 1% are allies, not enemies.”

Translation: "we're still working on finding ways to make him do our bidding"

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.

“I’m afraid of the poors!”

Boys, we have them right where we want them.

we’re gonna eat you, you rich motherfuckers

He views the Rich as a separate ethnic group.

from wiki:

An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of humans who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Attributes that ethnicities believe to share include language, culture, common sets of ancestry, traditions, society, religion, history, or social treatment.

He's mostly right, but that doesn't invalidate criticisms of the Rich.

Oh, I think he'll like this inevitable outcome then.

"TAX" is going to be the softest, most palateable verb that will be done to them, the alternatives are a little less polite.

"We want you to pay your fair share of taxes to maintain the system you enjoy the benefits and protection of." = slur?

Eat all of my shit and hair, Steve Roth. You sound like a real turd of a human being.

Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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".

"Tax the rich" is putting it very nicely.

They've dehumanized themselves with their monstrous exploitation.

Tax that peckerwood until he starts singing spirituals.

What a little pathetic bitch. Eat the rich

Bring back the tax brackets from the 1960's. That should solve the problems. Fucking Ronnie Reagan and his deregulation.

"Tax the rich" is the 99% being nice. We could go the France in 1792 route.

There's only 700 billionaires in America, and I think we should kill every single one.

A wealth tax a day keeps the guillotine away.

You're the best! Thank you so much for exploiting thousands of employees and customers to acquire a stupendous fortune!

He doesn't realize that this perspective proves exactly what he thinks of his employees and customers... to him they are nothing more than a despised, but necessary, resource to exploit ruthlessly.

Also, let's remember that his tax rate is much lower than that of an Arby's employee. Hateful and disgusting indeed

Man with more money than he could possibly use in his life is upset at the suggestion that some portion of the money he will never used could be used to help other people.

Being a billionaire is a sign of mental illness and needs to start being treated as such.

Tax is the compromise

The French have a good historical case for what should happen if that fails

It's true. I am bigoted against the wealthy. Proudly.

Mamdani is choosing the lesser evil here my dear rich person... The other options is: we kill you.

sure fine whatever

here’s another

kill em all

Rich is not a race. It’s not a characteristic that you’re born with.

I don’t understand why media prints stuff like this as if it’s a valid point that needs to be explored

off with his head

Is "guillotine" a softer word? We could and should just use that instead. I'm all about catering to the elites' baby soft thin skin.

It he prefers "eat the rich", I won't object.

Quite unlikely that any of his ancestors worked the cotton fields. He probably thinks he's a self made man.

JFC, how out of touch can you be from reality?

1. Overwhelmingly rich isn't a race
2. There are ways to solve being rich
3. There are other options if you don't like those but bring a pillow for your head to land on.

lynch him

Won't someone think of poor Ken Griffin??

That's pretty funny because the phrase doesn't actually have a negative meaning. It's a policy proposal at face value and at depth and that's it. Doesn't say the rich or bad people, although many of them are, doesn't say that nobody should be rich, doesn't even say how much they should be taxed.

And certainly nobody should be thanking the top 1%. We all know that they got there by lying and cheating and stealing and inheriting wealth.

Maybe he should just go fuck himself

How about "eat the rich" then, motherfucker? With BBQ sauce.

yeah. he's right. what's the problem with that?

I'm also bigoted against Nazis, which I suspect he might also have a problem with...

Oh rich please.

This sack of shit is a caricature, it's vomit inducing just to look at him

Tax or eat, Steve, tax or eat!

He looks like he enjoys a racial slur every now and then.

ok.

if "tax the rich" isn't enough, maybe this will send a stronger message.

is this loud enough you old rich fuck?

or maybe this is more your speed?

Add him to The List.

how much proof do we need that the rich are a different species?

Let's make this Sociopathic Oligarch understand that his...sort...are the only group left for which BULLYING is totally allowed, and strongly encouraged.

Fuck these loser snowflakes, all the money in the world, and they're whining because we aren't nice enough to them, poor people get all the breaks, it's just not fair.

Good, it’s getting under his skin cause he feels threatened by it. His ilk will be kicking and screaming about it till the grave, and that makes me feel some petty joy

This is like misogynistic incels complaining about "equality" being a slur against them.

Well that's interesting because I liken billionaire real estate tycoons to war criminals that deserve to be brutally executed. What a coincidence.

makes sense, rich people are the only truly protected class

Throw the rich off a cliff and liquidate their assets and net worth. was a bit too harsh, but whatever we have to do.

“I must say that I consider the phrase ‘tax the rich’ – quote tax the rich – spit out with anger and contempt by politicians both here and across the country, to be just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs, and even the phrase from the ‘river to the sea’,” he said, referring to the controversial pro-Palestinian slogan.

A LOT to unpack here.

motherfucker is a literal Skeksis

Dude is lucky we said tax the rich. That's the socially agreed option. If they stop respecting the plebs, well...

every day someone doesn't suck my trump its racism.

Lol chop chop, guoillo-bait

This is why the rich need to be taxed.

Ebenezer Scrooge, is that you?

Source: https://www.moralambition.org/...

Also, the above graph compares averages vs averages. The average of the top bracket is made up of some very rich people who accept that paying taxes is a fair thing to do, and some who try to contribute as little as possible by evading as much as possible. Because he'd prefer us to not talk about this, I have the suspicion that Mr Steve Roth falls into the 2nd category.

Billionaires are people, too. We are leaders in technology, in industry, in finance. Look at history. Do you know who else vilified a tiny minority of financiers and progressive thinkers called the Jews?

Gavin Belson

And much like racists using racial slurs to express how much they hate, we use “tax the rich” while hating you

I didn't know the rich were a race though at this point they've probably have been having their genes modified.

yeet the rich.

Gee, would've been a shame if that rich snob is taxed and his money is redistributed to the poor and pious.

eat the rich

The ultra-rich can be very ignorant.

To quote Tony Soprano: OH, POOR YOU!

One day the masses will take everything from Steve Roth or his heirs. That is a fact of life and nothing can stop it. You can be sure that it doesn't stop at a little wealth tax.

Eat the rich. This country is infested with wealthy parasites.

He's really not going like "Eat The Rich."

If that's true, then we are using it right. I'd only use a slur on beings that are less than human and ultra rich fit that pereftly. And as well read as the rich are, they know what happens when a being is considered less than human. >:D

wealth is not a racial sect.

Okay, here's the politically correct version then:

Take a portion of the income and wealth of people of wealth they don't plan on investing in a short period of time (not paid out as wages, etc.).

Well he's not wrong, it's definitely hateful. We don't say it because we think it's fair they get billions and we have to scrape by while doing the actual work.

Vampires suck.

There's nothing wrong with 'Tax the Rich'. It's no better or worse than the usual phrases 'Eat the Rich', or 'Suffocate the Rich by Stretching Their Scrotum Up Over Their Head'.

I dont think it is a slur. To be rich is even to this day associated with good qualities.

in other words, the word rich doesnt reflect reality and we have to weed it out

I think grabber is more suitable, because they grab property away from the commons.

Release the grip!

irresponsible and dangerous

For whom? The mayor? Isn't that a threat?

Ken Griffin should be taxed

Alright. Normalize both then. And remember that "tax" is a euphemism.

He’s really not going to like what comes after “tax the rich,” then.

Well,

He's a cunt then

Something something if you're comparing the badness of two words - John Mulaney

People that say that aren’t even rich.