Socialist Bernie Sanders Proposes 60 Percent
Wealth Tax On Billionaires To Fund
Healthcare For One Year
Gateway Pundit,
by
Mike LaChance
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
8/9/2020 6:15:58 AM
Bernie Sanders is proposing a new wealth tax on billionaires called the ‘Make Billionaires Pay’ act. He wants to tax wealth they have generated during the Coronavirus pandemic, to fund healthcare for all Americans for one year. His socialist instincts always get the best of him. CNBC reports Sen. Sanders proposes one-time tax that would cost Bezos $42.8 billion, Musk $27.5 billion Top tech leaders and other billionaires would be forced to hand over billions of dollars in wealth they’ve gained during the coronavirus pandemic under a new bill introduced by Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
mifla 8/9/2020 6:43:37 AM (No. 504007)
How about a 90% tax on liberals?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 8/9/2020 6:47:45 AM (No. 504011)
Make it 95%. Liberals have a moral obligation to pay their fair share.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
chumley 8/9/2020 6:48:55 AM (No. 504013)
Billionaires today, us tomorrow.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
PChristopher 8/9/2020 6:53:07 AM (No. 504015)
And when the billionaires all leave the country with their money, they'll expect us to pay for health care for all of their illegal constituents.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Red Jeep 8/9/2020 6:53:56 AM (No. 504017)
,,,and then in year 2 what happens?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 8/9/2020 6:59:43 AM (No. 504020)
Looters.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bpl40 8/9/2020 7:14:51 AM (No. 504033)
#5, have you forgotten the $19 trillion in 401k accounts? Bernie hasn't.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
nina584 8/9/2020 7:15:28 AM (No. 504034)
Let’s find out the cut that Bernie’s wife got from his campaign adds. It is in the millions. Where are the good investigative journalists?????
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
subman47 8/9/2020 7:24:51 AM (No. 504041)
Bernie, how can we say good bye if you won't go away?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/9/2020 7:35:23 AM (No. 504050)
People do not become billionaires so they can be punished by demented socialists. They can live anywhere in the world, Bern, and at sixty percent tax it will not be in the US.
This angers me and I have not reached my first billion yet.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
sw penn 8/9/2020 8:10:30 AM (No. 504084)
So...
I had a billion yesterday.
This morning Bernie took six hundred million.
And what did I get?
What did Bernie do for me that was worth six hundred million?
This does not sound like the the American social contract.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
govlawyer 8/9/2020 8:16:24 AM (No. 504092)
Is he still around? Hell, he's Biden's brain.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
jhpeters2 8/9/2020 8:21:53 AM (No. 504097)
If I am a billionaire then I simply defer the income this year (hint: Millionaires and Billionaires do this type of thing all the time, especially in election years). Dumb guys like Ol Bern are legion.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
guybee 8/9/2020 8:23:39 AM (No. 504100)
Besides the obvious - that this guy is an IDIOT - think about. If you were to have a wealth tax levied on you - where would get the money - forget the valuation issues? Bezos would have to sell stock. He does not have $43 billion just sitting around in cash. What would that do to the stock of Amazon if he had to dump 50% of his holdings - Gates, or Buffett - how much of Buffett's wealth is tied up in Bershire? Does that mean he dumps his stock in Berkshire and all of those companies that it owns has to be sold to liquidate him? This would cause a world wide depression.
Good move Bernie - you raving IDIOT
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
gone2pot 8/9/2020 8:24:05 AM (No. 504101)
Change the name to "Help Purple Unicorns Poop More Delicious Skittles Act" and Mitch will probably be a co-sponsor.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/9/2020 8:35:08 AM (No. 504110)
Talk is cheap. Right, Gramps? You're net worth is what, maybe all of $3 million?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 8/9/2020 8:41:02 AM (No. 504116)
Bernie has no clue. I might not respect Bezos and co much for their liberalism, but they stepped up to the plate this year. If they earned money Bernie, that is on you and your jackboot policies, because they made sure we got our deliveries of food, basic supplies and everything we used to go to the brick and mortar locations for. Did you expect us to sit home and starve Bernie? Because your side that runs 30 blue states shut things down and told us to stay home. So how else were we to survive? These idiots operate on their old pals envy, jealousy, petty greed and they don't have a clue what it takes to run a business. Why should they, for idiots like Bernie never held a job in their entire lives.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
stablemoney 8/9/2020 8:56:36 AM (No. 504122)
We could take Sanders, Biden and family, Clinton, Carter, Pelosi, Feinstein, Schumer, Soros, Steyer, Gates money, and move them into public housing. I think this would help some with their income inequality concerns.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
coyote 8/9/2020 8:57:18 AM (No. 504125)
A socialist doing what socialists do, take other people's money and use it to control them. "Funding health care" is political control of health care that is available to you and "health care" that will be imposed on you.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
red1066 8/9/2020 9:09:24 AM (No. 504139)
So what happens after one year? These Marxists just don't get it. Look at every city and state where confiscation of wealth takes place. The wealthy leave, and take their money with them. The current example is New York, but one could count California, Illinois, Oregon, as well as almost any of the Northeastern states.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 8/9/2020 9:27:27 AM (No. 504158)
Sanders is just missing the limelight; he should move to Russia where he will fit in better. He is a little kid who wants attention.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Rama41 8/9/2020 9:32:35 AM (No. 504163)
I'm glad Bernie's still out there. I think there are still DNC types out there looking for an alternative to Biden, but Bernie provides the "checkmate" factor. In the event of a shake-up on top, he's still the heir apparent and they'll have to get around him.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
padiva 8/9/2020 9:43:11 AM (No. 504179)
People can donate whatever they want to the US Treasury.
Taking people's money by force is cruel and unusual punishment.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Kate318 8/9/2020 9:47:12 AM (No. 504182)
Well, let’s start with Hollywood, Silicon Valley, the NBA, the NFL and Washington DC, and go from there.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Grounded 8/9/2020 9:47:30 AM (No. 504184)
The last time I checked, Bernie and Markey and Gillibrand were in the US Senate. Per Article I, Section 7, Clause 1 of the US Constitution, sometimes called the Origination Clause, all bills for raising revenue must start in the House of Representatives. It is so sad that the lawmakers are this ignorant of the law.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
LadyHen 8/9/2020 9:48:12 AM (No. 504185)
Why not millionaires Bernie? You used to complain about millionaires. Oh that's right, you are a millionaire now..... despite never holding down a single REAL job in your whole life. Where did your millions come from Bernie?
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/9/2020 9:53:30 AM (No. 504190)
#1, Since Liberals are obsessed to run the entire World they should pay the price.
I up your 90% to 150%. This assures they NOT ONLY pay the price, but are depleted of their vast crooked wealth. That way they soon won't be able to buy toilet paper!
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This is simply Dem red meat for their rads.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Bazi 8/9/2020 10:13:43 AM (No. 504223)
Before Bernie became a millionaire, he wanted to tax millionaires, too. Commies--->wealth for me, but not for thee.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
4Justice 8/9/2020 10:15:55 AM (No. 504229)
One year ...and then what? A mess....
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
JimBob 8/9/2020 10:41:40 AM (No. 504256)
IF this 'one-time tax' were ever imposed...... are there ANY L-dotters that are daft enough to believe that the Leftists would not push to do it again the next year...... and the year after that...... and the year after that?
Biden voters might believe that it is one-time-only, AND that it will ONLY be applied to 'The Rich'. The rest of us know better.
My Dad, a WWII US Marine Sergeant, used to say "A Tax, Once Imposed, is Never Repealed."
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/9/2020 10:49:13 AM (No. 504265)
Communist Bernie should just drop all pretenses and demand the government confiscate all property and personal wealth. Its what he really wants. He doesn't really believe in representative government. Have to ensure 'equality' for everyone don'tcha know. Its the 'fair' thing to do. There are millions of Americans that would support this btw.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
gramma b 8/9/2020 10:53:57 AM (No. 504270)
#15 made a most important point. The billionaires’ net worth is comprised of assets, not just cash. What would happen to the economy if they were suddenly forced to liquidate? Simpleton Bernie probably thinks they are sitting on piles of cash, like Scrooge McDuck.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
joew9 8/9/2020 11:01:22 AM (No. 504278)
These kinds of proposals always end up taxing the middle class who are no where near billionaires or even millionaires.
Clinton/Gore raised taxes on the Social Security drawn by those evil "ultra wealthy that hardly ever paid any taxes." And everyone cheered. But my elderly Mother who didn't have enough money to own a house and thus had to live in a cheap apartment got hit with that tax on her Social Security. What liars.
They always claim to be taxing the rich but then they slide in an increase on the not rich.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Zigrid 8/9/2020 11:11:07 AM (No. 504289)
Bernie doesn't understand business.... billionaires became billionaires because they are clever with money... should biden/bernie win... the rich folk will leave the country and then bernie bros will come after taxpayers...but the lefties are in for a surprise.... Americans will not pay their taxes... they can put it in an escrow account... and wait... tie it up in court...we're getting tooooo smart for the Dems....
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 8/9/2020 12:43:32 PM (No. 504372)
I think Bernie has Alzheimer's too. He keeps repeating the same thing over and over - Raise Taxes Raise Taxes Raise Taxes!!!
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What happens the 2nd year, after they have all renounced their US citizenship and move their assets and businesses to other countries ?
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
smokincol 8/9/2020 12:59:55 PM (No. 504394)
that's right, boinie. tax everyone who has more money than you so you don't have to explain how you made all your millions. what about the investigation into your wife's illegal dealings that made her a multi-millionairess. talk about double standard.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
stevendm 8/9/2020 1:31:19 PM (No. 504424)
Let me tell you how it will be
There's one for you, nineteen for me
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
pensom2 8/9/2020 2:53:01 PM (No. 504484)
#25, the Make Billionaires Pay Act IS being introduced in the House of Representatives. Sanders, Markey, and Gillibrand are merely getting the counterpart bill rolling in the Senate. Then, if the bills should pass (not a chance), the House and Senate get together in committee and work out any differences in a final bill. The House Bill has been introduced by guess who? Ilhan Omar:
https://omar.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ilhan-omar-introduces-billionaire-tax-provide-healthcare-all
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Sgtglh 8/9/2020 3:27:00 PM (No. 504501)
Just 90% on NBA and NFL affleets will cover it all. They don't deserve or earn the money anyway. And they sure as heck don't appreciate it. Especially LaBrown, the Hater.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Digger 8/9/2020 6:14:29 PM (No. 504615)
Taxes for Thee, but not for me.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
scottj 8/9/2020 9:12:30 PM (No. 504727)
It used to be a tax on millionaires but then Bernie became a millionaire so now it's a tax on billionaires. Lets have a 100% tax on Bernie. He's the 1%. Lets make Bernie pay.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 8/9/2020 10:02:33 PM (No. 504757)
Easy for him to say. Allow me to say billionaires should pay 100% in taxes to pay for New York and SFO hotel rooms for the needy. With complimentary alcohol marijuana and pizza delivery 24 hours a day.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
rytwng 8/9/2020 10:23:34 PM (No. 504769)
Commiecrats are great at spending other peoples money. Bernie is still an idiot.
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Says the millionaire who never had a real job until he got on the government teat. Sounds like the Faux Squaw. The limit will always be just above their own wealth.
My mother use to say "Never bite the hand that feeds you" Who does he suppose pays most of the tax they waste?
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