The phrase “tax the rich” can be “just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs”, according to the New York City billionaire Steve Roth, who said that the top 1% should be “praised and thanked”.
Speaking on his company’s quarterly earnings call on Tuesday, Roth, the CEO of Vornado Realty Trust, expressed his support for fellow billionaire and the CEO of Citadel, Ken Griffin, who was singled out in the 15 April announcement by New York’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, of the state’s first “pied-à-terre” tax on second homes valued at more than $5m. In a video, Mamdani announced the policy in front of Griffin’s penthouse, which he said was purchased for $238m.
“We are all shocked that our young mayor would pull this stunt in front of Ken’s home and single him out for ridicule,” Roth said. “This was both irresponsible and dangerous.”
Quite unlikely that any of his ancestors worked the cotton fields. He probably thinks he’s a self made man.
What a little pathetic bitch. Eat the rich
He views the Rich as a separate ethnic group.
from wiki:
An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of humans who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Attributes that ethnicities believe to share include language, culture, common sets of ancestry, traditions, society, religion, history, or social treatment.
He’s mostly right, but that doesn’t invalidate criticisms of the Rich.
I don’t understand why media prints stuff like this as if it’s a valid point that needs to be explored
It’s because parasites like this jackass are paying them to.
- Overwhelmingly rich isn’t a race
- There are ways to solve being rich
- There are other options if you don’t like those but bring a pillow for your head to land on.
wealth is not a racial sect.
He looks like he enjoys a racial slur every now and then.
Rich is not a race. It’s not a characteristic that you’re born with.
The worst often are born with it.
But it’s a mutable attribute
I can see if we make this argument, they will then say the same thing about being poor. And then take it further to say the poor should not be a protected class and therefore should not receive extra benefits. (I know this is not what protected class typically refers to, but I can see them making these arguments.)
No need to hypothesize, they’ve been doing this since the New Deal
Something something if you’re comparing the badness of two words - John Mulaney
“We want you to pay your fair share of taxes to maintain the system you enjoy the benefits and protection of.” = slur?
Eat all of my shit and hair, Steve Roth. You sound like a real turd of a human being.
"He will learn over time that growing a tax base is a winner and raising taxes is a loser … and that the hard-working 1% are allies, not enemies.”
Translation: “we’re still working on finding ways to make him do our bidding”
Bitch, taxing the rich is the humane option
I get the feeling we’re getting closer to starting to spit roast them.
Eww. Nobody want to put their dick in that, surely?
I’d be willing to accept the… Alternative
Because of……the implication.
we’re gonna eat you, you rich motherfuckers
Tax is the compromise
The French have a good historical case for what should happen if that fails
“I must say that I consider the phrase ‘tax the rich’ – quote tax the rich – spit out with anger and contempt by politicians both here and across the country, to be just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs, and even the phrase from the ‘river to the sea’,” he said, referring to the controversial pro-Palestinian slogan.
A LOT to unpack here.
