Oh but Bernie, be fair. They support museums and things!
Bernie Sanders
 @BernieSanders
25 Mar 2021
The 50 wealthiest people in America today own more wealth than the bottom half of our people. Let me repeat that, because it is almost too absurd to believe: the 50 wealthiest people in this country own more wealth than some 165 MILLION Americans. That is a moral obscenity.

Mar 26, 2021 · 11:12 AM UTC

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Many of them started poor. When did success become obscene? Why should getting rich be eliminated as an opportunity for the poor and all to strive for?
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Nobody is saying success is obscene! Many rich people work very hard but many poor people work very hard as well. The point is that our current political and economic system makes it so much easier for the rich to continue to be rich and harder for most people to ever get close.
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My uncle makes 100k dollars a year, rents an expensive apartment, travels frequently and has no wealth. I make 70k a year, live frugally and have some wealth. How much should I give my uncle to correct this outrageous disparity in our asset levels?
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I think we, general public are full of morons, doing nothing about it, hoping we someday will become one of them.
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True they do voluntarily donate a lot of their wealth. They have also created millions of jobs. Unlike Bernie whom only wants to destroy jobs and control every aspect of our lives. Theft is still morally wrong @BernieSanders
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Yes. And when they insist that the museum’s new wing or sports complex or park be named after them, they’re making sure we all know it. They’re paying for that advertisement.
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That's right ... that is obscene!
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Years ago, I said on Twitter that billionaires are a threat to national security and got nothing but hate for my comment. I stand by that comment more now than before. Society is unsafe while billionaires exist anywhere on the planet.
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And both of you ignore the root of the problem, because honest money -- like endless, undeclared war -- is one of those uncomfortable "@RonPaul Was Right" subjects all the hypocrites in US politics want to avoid. Honest money helps "the little guy." The Fed helps robber barons.
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