100% of it. You earn it and watch Bernie’s IRS swoop in and take every last cent. He proves our point that the answer to the question of “Who’s money is it FIRST?” is that it isn’t the person that earned it. A reminder: I used to ask Bruce Currie, a past frequent commenter until he went Troll, that question all the time. He’d never answer it directly but I finally found something he wrote that gave the game away:
But wait, there’s more. A corollary to the fact that all money first comes from the government…
He was a least “coy” about it even though nobody at GraniteGrok thought it was otherwise. Once I read what he wrote, my response was:
- It means that we are not Free People – that we are subjects rather than Citizens
- Government is now “allocating” our money” and subverting the philosophical underpinning of our country – from the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” That Happiness was originally Property of which our wealth is private property. If Government is now allocating our wealth, then we have no personal property, and that EVERYTHING belongs to the State (which Communist Bernie Sanders (doesn’t believe that “Democratic Socialist” crapola) really wants (for one example).
Bernie isn’t coy at all about these things – he IS all about Government taking control and doing that “allocating” unapologetically.
Bernie Sanders: Government Should Confiscate All Wealth Over $999 Million
Bernie Sanders’s choice of $999 million as the permissible level of wealth and no more brings to mind Barack Obama’s words: “I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.” Of course, once such a wealth confiscation is announced, billionaires will depart for friendlier shores, there will be very little left to confiscate, and entrepreneurs will be creating jobs and wealth elsewhere. That’s what happened when France tried a wealth tax, and that’s why it was repealed.
"Are you basically saying that once you get to $999 million, the government should confiscate all the rest?"
BERNIE SANDERS: "I'm saying that we should go back to a very progressive tax policy."
"Over $1 billion basically all goes to the government?"
SANDERS: "Yeah" pic.twitter.com/YmIpTpI1oy
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 29, 2023
Here’s the transcript of the conversation:
WALLACE: “Sir, you’re saying that billionaires should not exist. So, are you basically saying that once you get to $999 million, that the government should confiscate all the rest?”
SANDERS: “I’m saying that we should go back to a very progressive tax policy like what we had under Dwight D. Eisenhower.”
WALLACE: “Which would mean that — that — over a billion, basically it all goes to the government?”
SANDERS: “You may disagree with me, but — fine, yeah, I think people can make it on $999 million.”
Bernie, who is himself worth $3 million, according to GoBankingRates, previously criticized both millionaires and billionaires, but now only opposes those worth over a billion dollars.
And yes, that is the debunked, disclaimed, and decrepit Chris Wallace who left Fox News for CNN Streaming only to find himself backed at ground zero in the news broadcasting biz. Really, Chris, you didn’t alREADY know what he was going to say? Oh, that’s right, you’re still with CNN basement bumming. I will admit perhaps a quarter floor up – can I say that Fox News pulled a Bud Light with trying to cancel Tucker Carlson?
He missed a great opportunity to ask Bernie THE question of the interview:
If we did go back to Eisenhower, should we also return to the size of Government that existed at that time as well?
Yeah, we already know the answer to that question.
And yet, Biden’s Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claims that REPUBLICANS are the greatest threat to the American economy?
Bernie Sander’s sound-alikes are all economic illiterates as they either have no idea of the ramifications of altering such a point in our economy (or don’t care). Again, France removed their wealth tax just like America removed its yacht tax that was set up to mooch off the rich and their toys. What happened is that the rich didn’t buy any more yachts and thousands of blue collar workers working in the shipyards all up and down the coastlines lost their jobs either building them or maintaining them.
(H/T: ZeroHedge, DailyWire, IJR)
