Zohran Mamdani says 'I don't think we should have billionaires'
Zohran Mamdani says 'I don't think we should have billionaires'
Mamdani, the presumptive Democratic nominee to be the next mayor of New York City and a self-identified democratic socialist, on Sunday said billionaires contribute to inequality.
Not a strong stance to be anti-thief. I'll take it though! We all need to speak plain sense more often.
This guy sounds pretty based!
This needs to become the mainstream opinion. Billionaires and ultra wealthy shouldn't exist. There is no trickling down or any of that stolen wealth coming back into the hands of average people.
not surprised considering his other views but glad to see his courage in sticking to his principles against a very biased media landscape. even his rap was fun af. this guy never misses.
Alright, now I HAVE to donate to his campaign.
Here's the link for those who need to do the same after hearing this: https://www.zohranfornyc.com/
Imagine life was a game. You lived for 2025 years. You worked 260 days / year. You made the median US salary.
You would need to relive that process 3,145 times to match an Oligarch.
That amount of wealth is unethical while humanity suffers. No one can really fathom “1b dollars.”
Before the oligarchs say this is "violence".
This can be done peacefully. Just enact a law that taxes everything above like 999 million (or a fewer amount, to be debated on), and if you don't comply, that's tax evasion and you go to jail. Complelete peaceful (other than the tax-person we'd have to send to arrest the rich for non-complance), comply and everyone is happy.
Voila, no more billionaires, and that wealth redistributed will let everyone become a millionaire. Everyone is happy, maybe the 1% cries that they now have a few less yachts and mansions, but like, they can still enjoy that one house, same as everyone else would also have.
Based as fuck. The fact that the establishment players disagree is extremely telling.
Mamdani added in his response: “I have already had to start to get used to, get used to the fact that the president will talk about how I look, how I sound, where I’m from, who I am, ultimately, because he wants to distract from what I’m fighting for, and I’m fighting for the very working people that he ran a campaign to empower, that he has since then betrayed.”
Goddamn, this reads like a response that came from a real socialist playbook. Don't take the bait on the culture war bullshit, say it's distraction from helping workers. Wow.
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Great idea. You only need enough money for one lifetime. Not 100000
Duh, dude is a socialist.
Oooooh! He said the thing!
Yes! Let’s stop this modern day slavery.
The whole billionaire thing is completely arbitrary. It used to be that being a millionaire was a big deal. With inflation, in a couple more years we'll have trillionaires, if Mohammed bin Salman hasn't become the first one already.
If you make more than most people, regardless of how much that is, you should be heavily taxed.
Trump-the dems are socialists!
Some dems-i mean were were not, but thank for the idea.
Trump-.....
Well now they're definitely got to pull all the stuff out to try and prevent him from winning. I mean they already were but now they're going to try even harder I guess?
Regardless I'm totally here for it
Tru dat
And he's right.
By any measure, the exidtence of that great of a disparity in wealth in a society is evidence of the failure of the systems on which that society is built.
It's akin to if you were responsible for caring for a field of crops, and you ended up with a field in which two or three plants were enormous, bloated and overgrown. a few were more or less healthy, snd the rest were weak and shriveled and starving.
That rather obviously would mean you'd failed.
He's going to send so many right-wing working poors into hysterics over that.
So happy to finally find a politician who agrees with me
Zohran the destroyer of billionaires
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I am looking forward to rewatching the action mockumentary film about your future president, "Zohran the Destroyer", 30 years from now. The part with him using a morningstar to tear down Mar-a-Lago is great!
Keep this man alive!
Yes, that is the word I like.
I don't think we should have any sort of criminal. Murderers, rapists, billionaires.
Based
He fuckin better, at the very least.
I think we should have billionaires.
Because they wouldn't miss a 90% tax on their highest bracket, and they aren't going away, so why not turn them into the resource they should have stayed.
I mean there's lots of other problems that have gotten far worse in the past decades to make the wealth inequality ridiculous, but a good starting point is MAGA. Bring back the high taxes on those who can afford it, to fund helping those in need.
Agreed.
He’s going for the martyr angle already. Shame…
