New York real estate titan likens the phrase ‘tax the rich’ to racial slurs
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.
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The sooner they learn that "tax the rich" is the moderate compromise, the better
They won't learn shut until we revolt.
Unfortunately that's true. I'm armed to the teeth just waiting for the pendulum to swing that way.
They need more Luigi to compare and contrast
There are other ways to make them learn than words.
Unfortunately by the time the lesson has sunk into their stupid heads, those heads are on the floor.
Praised and thanked?
Careful Steve, you might dislocate your shoulder or wrist when you jerk yourself off that hard.
I'll praise and thank any billionaire that pays their fair share of taxes, pays their employees ALL a living wage, and doesn't spend money influencing political or corporate ideals (aka when hell freezes over).
Are those unicorns in the room with us?
Wonder how he's gonna feel about "Eat the rich". I'm hungry.
Guillotine the rich
Absolutely this.
He's gonna be dismayed to learn what people will be calling for if they continue to squeeze the working class.
He's really not gonna like the next phase, then.
We need the French to show us how to properly riot.
Eat the rich.
lol he would have a heart attack if he ever visited Lemmy
tax the rich
I'm perfectly fine with vivisecting them, if he prefers that
I've always preferred "eat the rich" anyways.
ROFLMAO Actually laughed out loud at this. 😂
Like, we all assumed they were comically evil villains and we joke that they might talk and think like this.
But the confirmation of it is somehow hilarious to me. Their complete lack of understanding of the world, the zero self awareness, the cheap attempt for sympathy while lounging on the weary bones of the entire working class.
If EVER we needed that smoking gun to show that class has nothing to do with intelligence or hard work, this definitely goes on the wall.
LOL, sir. 🖕 Taxes are the most humane thing coming to you and your ilk, you filthy curr. I thumb my nose at you, indeed! Go forth and repent to all those you hath wronged, or freely go fucketh thyself to expiry, thank you VERY MUCH.
IDK man, slurs seem preferable to slugs.
If that's true then I'm a massive racist.
Fuck that guy, but only in every way he doesn't consent to.
Tax the rich :3
"Let them eat cake"
-Steve Roth, probably
If only they had some way to disassociate themselves from that demographic… Too bad they were born into it :( Let’s all cry for the billionaires.
I mean, it can.
Or it can be just meant as a "let every member profiting from society pay back to it accordingly".
Most of the time it's the latter.
1789 >> 1939.
Are the rich really a race? I don't think so