What’s funny is I was listening to someone last night talk about how hard the billionaire tax was fought by republicans and Manchin. The guy then gave the comparison that is hard to argue. He said back in the Egyptian days, emperors had all the wealth, and to self justify the peasants and the royal system would claim that God bestowed the wealth on them. It is not that different now under capitalism. Common middle/lower even upper class people think that billionaires should be revered, when they are in the position they are in thru little effort of their own. These are the real welfare queens, and why should I be alright with being taxed to death and let these guys slide just because they have amassed more wealth than all of us combined, shouldn’t they pay more taxes? If not, why not? If your answer is because they were smarter, get the dikk outta ur mouth. Fair is fair. If you had a big come up thru lotto or something, for like 200 million, you would be taxed 50% and probably be ok with it, right, because you still have more money than you and your generational existence would ever be enable to spend just on interest! Why can’t they just pay their share? The only reason they are as rich as they are is because we have subsidized all of their buildings, payroll, pretty much all of it, why do they deserve the money more than we do?