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BREAKING: Bernie Sanders brutally mocks billionaires over his proposed wealth tax: “Poor Elon Musk would only have $737 billion left!”
Sen. Bernie Sanders just delivered one of the funniest, most savage takedowns of billionaire whining in recent memory.
While pushing for higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy, Sanders mocked his opponents who claim such policies are too harsh on the poor, suffering billionaires:
“My opponents claim that this legislation is punitive and confiscatory. Oh, we’re just picking on these poor billionaires. I mean, my God, how cruel can you be?”
Then came the punchlines that had the room laughing:
“If that bill were in effect this year, Elon Musk would pay $39 billion more in taxes. This confiscatory, terrible, drastic, radical piece of legislation would leave Musk with just $737 billion left to survive on.
Now, I know you’re worried about him, but what do you think? Think he can make it on $737 billion?”
Of course, Bernie couldn’t let the Amazon and Washington Post owner off the hook:
“Jeff Bezos would owe about $14 billion more in taxes, but he would still have $265 billion to put a roof over his head.”
The crowd loved it. And seriously, who wouldn’t? The idea that taxing the richest people in human history a little more is somehow cruel while millions of Americans struggle to afford groceries is peak billionaire propaganda.
Bernie was referring to the Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share Act, which he and Rep. Ro Khanna introduced earlier this year. The bill would impose a 5 percent annual wealth tax on the roughly 940 Americans with a net worth of $1 billion or more.
Economists say this would raise trillions over a decade to fund direct payments to working families, expanded healthcare, affordable housing, and other priorities, while leaving even the richest Americans with hundreds of billions of dollars in wealth.
Bernie’s point is crystal clear: the ultra-wealthy have more money than any human being could possibly need in multiple lifetimes, yet they still cry victim the second anyone suggests they pay their fair share.
The ultra-rich can absolutely afford to pay more, and pretending otherwise is getting harder and harder to take seriously.
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