Demand a Billionaire Tax

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Look at their mansions.
Then look at the conditions you live in.

Immortal Technique

By Charles Bivona

I’m so exhausted with these gluttonous, hoarding billionaires waltzing around my society with impunity, with this attitude:

Well, I’m certainly not going to apologize for my success.

Hold up there, Money Money. You won’t apologize? I think someone needs to force feed you some kindergarten ethics.

Observe a thought experiment, scavenger human: If we gathered a group of fifty concerned five-year-old Americans and gave them fifty sandwiches to share, how do you think the children would divide those sandwiches up?

Don’t stop with this simple thought experiment. Ask an actual five-year-old, six-year-old, any child for that matter: should one selfish person get forty-nine of those sandwiches?

Of course not. Only a jerk would think that!

Yet this imaginary adult meritocracy, this American story, tells us there is no Class War in this country — when it has obviously been waging for decades. Just ask any poverty class American if they had equal opportunities in American life. You may have to wait for them to stop laughing before they can answer you.

And it’s this same meritocracy myth that convinces people like Donald Trump, and the rest of his secretive money club, that they somehow deserve to live in their palaces while millions of people starve globally.

And it’s all  because they’re so damn smart and crafty, of course.

They don’t feel they should apologize for their nauseating private excesses on our planet of desperate billions? Seriously?

Well, no worries. I wouldn’t accept that apology anyway. Because this isn’t about an apology. This is about a simple ethical fact that your capitalistic lizard-vulture brains just can’t seem to process: selfish people are jerks.

Share the damn sandwiches!

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