New York real estate titan likens the phrase ‘tax the rich’ to racial slurs
www.theguardian.com
Steve Roth was responding to the announcement by New York’s mayor of tax on second homes worth more than $5m

https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1t60chb/new_slur_dropped_billionaire_cries_about_tax_the/

Taxing the rich is the compromise bruh.

Don’t believe me? Please, give it five more years.

Take it from someone who grew up amongst the 1% and then made more than my parents and their friends by opening a small criminal defense law practice: these people do not understand the concept of compromise. They think they got where they are by pushing through compromise.

Like I go back to where I grew up and get shit about why I don’t have a bigger house or why I quit the golf club and things like this. “Look at what you built and accomplished, enjoy it,” lmfao, yeah, I accomplished a great deal professionally - helped a lot of people - but the money? I’ve had enough my entire life, sport scholarships covered the paltry portion of tuition my grandparents didn’t, I’ve never felt financial pressure, and these people are like “how could the government want to take what you earned?”

I’m telling you there’s no compromise with these people.

  • SailorFuzz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    To the privileged, equality, oppression, etcetcetc…

    Eat him first. As an appetizer for the main course.

  • ɔiƚoxɘup@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    Roth said of Mamdani

    “With a little tweak here, a little tweak there, his leadership could make this great city even greater,” he said. “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.”

    No veiled threat there at all!