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THE HAMPTONS (The Borowitz Report)They dont pay taxes. They circumvent our laws. They get free stuff from the government. They are Americas billionaires, and many would like to see them gone.
According to a new survey by the University of Minnesotas Opinion Research Institute, the American people hold the nations billionaires in lower esteem than ever before, and a majority would like to see new laws enacted to deport them.
They come here, take thousands of our jobs, and export them overseas, one respondent said, in an opinion echoed by many others in the survey.
They are part of a shadow economy that sucks billions of dollars out of the United States every year and puts it in Switzerland and the Caymans, another said.
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/sentiment-building-to-deport-nations-billionaires
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Those billionaires keep the economy going, with their expertise how to make steel. Without them, there would be no steel! Never again!
brooklynite
(94,727 posts)I'd hate to have people lose their purpose in life...
sunnystarr
(2,638 posts)from their money. So let's deport them to their tax havens. Everyone should be able to be near what they love the most.
pampango
(24,692 posts)let the "good ones" back in.
fasttense
(17,301 posts)Leaving this one for the rset of us to clean up. The one sticking point was the fact that regular people who knew how to cook, farm and wash clothes had to go with them.
We really don't need billionaires. What they do can be done by most anybody despite what Ann Rand would like everyone to believe. Their existance is simply the result of happen chance and capitalism. Capitalism concentrates wealth. It's the nature of the beast. It deprives the majority so that a small minority can live like royalty. It use to be kings and queens who concentrated the wealth in their hands. It's now anyone who inherits wealth. Hardly anyone pulls themselves up by their boot straps even Bill Gates had very wealthy parents (father a high powered lawyer, mother a hospital administrator) and STOLE computer time from his Mom's hospital in order to learn enough about computers before the rest of the world caught on.
Do away with capatalism and the lucky sperm club isn't so lucky.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)If they aren't paying taxes, and they aren't holding their assets in the US, but they are demanding US government services, and are demanding the protection of the US military, then how are they different than parasites, feeding off a host state?
Say what you will about Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, but at least they pay taxes and both favor a more progressive income tax system than we have today.
fbc
(1,668 posts)Too tasty to deport.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)demwing
(16,916 posts)put a bunch of billionaires together on a deserted island with nothing to eat except their piles of $100 bills.
Last billionaire standing gets to pay the taxes of all those who went before...
paparush
(7,964 posts)Taking out the trash
Cooking their own meal
Washing their own clothes
Spending time with their children
How will these billionaires fare? Who will survive? Tune in and find out!
whathehell
(29,090 posts)I Love it!
jwirr
(39,215 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)at this time of year.
Not sure if it's far enough away, though.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)kind of space research and colonization? I just laughed when I saw it.
demwing
(16,916 posts)make the billionaires pay for it
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)I have a feeling that Canada would be quite happy to take them.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)Gore1FL
(21,151 posts)The CCC
(463 posts)Naw, just tax them at the 1950's rate... 91+%.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)I guess you don't need a diploma or well rounded education to be filthy rich.
retrowire
(10,345 posts)looks like they've switched to telling the truth now.
cool. lol
Send Murdoch's ass BACK to Australia!!!!!
StarzGuy
(254 posts)...I say deport those who aren't American citizens and include a deportation tax at 100% of all deposits held anywhere. Hahaha
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)and a former president of the Harvard Lampoon, FYI.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)plus forfeiture of all toys and properties.
hunter
(38,326 posts)100% tax of anything over some multiple less than twenty of the minimum wage, 100% tax of wealth over some multiple less than twenty of the minimum wealth.
The wealthiest guy in the city has a big house, a fancy car, can afford the latest trendy fashion items, maybe has a vacation cottage on some distant beach, while the poorest disabled or unemployable person in the city still lives within walking distance of the wealthy person's mansion, in a safe, comfortable apartment, provided freely whatever medical care or supervision they require.
A retired hotel housekeeper, for example, might have a nice small house, and her grandkids would attend the same schools as the wealthy person's grandkids, and she would sometimes meet the wealthiest person at the grocery store or in the public park where they might chat about life and politics or just the weather.
byronius
(7,401 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)emsimon33
(3,128 posts)Leaving their families and relatives left to work jobs paying $7.25 an hour. Jailed for life without hope of parole.