Emma Vigeland

We have to break their backs, not literally, but in terms of like taxing them, there's no shortcut.

There's no working with these people.

They got to where they are by being psychopathically greedy.

So we have to be psychopathically on the side of the people and billionaires should not exist.

know i'm i'm really truly believe that you 999 million dollars you're gonna be okay but at the very least we need to start taxing them heavily heavily heavily because you know my generation like yeah

The idea of owning a home, I mean, come on, come on.

The American dream is dying before our very eyes.

And it's because people like that bitch and moan and cry because God forbid we point out the fact that they've been ransacking our society and are not paying their fair share.

Cry all you want, I will drink your tears and then some.

I'm gonna beer funnel your tears, in fact.

mean it's just i can't this bill ackman have you seen his bed wedding oh my god that's the weirdest you've ever seen can someone just take his internet away you know how in the office when like they tried to set up a a blog for creed and they were like let's just make it a word document bill ackman needs something like that because he's got to stop well maybe he shouldn't stop tweeting because he's making all billionaires look bad which is is good for

with the billionaires they all live in the same space they are whining titty baby bedwetters and you know who else is maga yeah it's just all this bedwetting i've had it with all that emma i've had it with that too and and and like honestly at least the robber barons in the gilded age which by the way we're at levels of income inequality and wealth inequality that far surpass that at this point just to give people a sense of how big bad things have gotten

least they were building railroads at least like they were building these mansions like 70 taxes or something i mean the back and i would need to fact check back in in the 1920s if that were the case but in the 1960s the top marginal tax rate was around 90 90 so the equivalent of like four million every dollar you would make over four million dollars in today's standards would be taxed at a 90 rate it's not taxing all of your income at 90 right it's taxing it over that

And that was after World War II when the United States was at its most economically prosperous.

So it is, I don't think we can get there realistically right now, but that was what income tax looked like at that point.

But in the Gilded Age, it wasn't in that way.

And speculation and the levels of the trading on the stock market was completely out of control too.

But they at least built...

railroads and infrastructure and like museums i mean the rockefellers and stuff they they felt they wanted to maintain their wealth and they felt like okay let me contribute to society in this way at least with the arts so i can be a pillar of the of society all these billionaire robber barons from today these tech guys what do they do they they go in their bunkers and they complain they complain they

They don't provide anything to society and they feel almost emboldened by that fact.