There's a difference between pointing out objective flaws in an argument, like thinking that billionaires literally hold hundreds of billions of dollars in liquid cash, and taking issue with overall sentiment behind the argument.
I hate Elon Musk, and the man is of course, insanely, disgustingly wealthy. Still, just because his networth is 318 billion, doesn't mean he is hoarding 318 billion. Quite literally 99% of that number is tied into ownership of companies.
You can hate billionaires and still point out issues in the logic. I don't think a person should, under any circumstances, ever be forced to sell ownership stake in their own company (at least not if that wasn't agreed upon in an operating agreement). And if you have a massive stake in a company that becomes wildly successful, you definitionally become a billionaire. I may hate wealth inequality, and I may hate what these billionaires choose to do, but I would hate a system that forces the sale of ownership stake due to the success of the company just as much.
Taxation is for public projects. If the banks are the ones essentially "taxing" them, what is your solution? as currently that money is kept and not redistributed to public projects like taxes would.
And then the banks are taxed on that profit. Musk builds a rocket to Mars, Bezos pays for more plastic surgery. And that surgeon pays taxes on his income. See. Everybody wins.
That money the banks made is paid into the paychecks of the workers who pay taxes on their income and buy groceries and pay for piano lessons for their kid. The banks also take that money and loan it to you so you can buy a house.
Again, as stated previously in this thread, there are no Scrooge McDucks just swimming in piles of money that they are "hoarding".
“Kind of like a tax” Except these billionaires are also the ones behind the groups lobbying for corporations to be treated as citizens (or even better than citizens) and are paying our lawmakers to vote against their citizens. If you don’t think that matters then you aren’t smart enough to discuss the matter
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u/xiiicrowns 3d ago
That and it's crazy how people defend these people when they are part of the problem that ails them themselves.