Hi Ro, the real scandal is YOU, not the billionaires.
They create jobs, technology and pay taxes.
You take and take. Always asking for more money but have ZERO accountability. And you're selling one MORE magical tax that will suddenly solve all of our problems.
Scapegoat: builders (framed as billionaires)
Bailout: rampant government negligence and fraud
Over the last 25 years we have done the following;
2000: revenue $2T. Spend $1.8T. A $236B SURPLUS.
Today: revenue $5.2T. Spend $7T. A $1.8T DEFICIT.
Revenue up 2.6x. Spending up almost 4x. And the money you don't have, you print, so the inflation lands on everyone who isn't you.
So where does the money go???
Everything has gotten worse.
Healthcare: the most expensive it has ever been. Test scores: historic lows. Infrastructure is degrading and some of the worst in the world. Housing affordability is absolutely wrecked.
Debt in 2000: $5.7T. Today: $39T. We now burn over $1T a year just on the interest. More than the entire military.
Record revenue. Record debt. And a normal family is further from a home than their parents were, on a quarter of the budget.
So the simple question. After all of that, why should anyone hand you EVEN MORE to torch?
You want to gaslight us into thinking one more tax saves it. It does not. You do not fix this with a bigger check.
Show me zero based budgeting. Show me a single outcome worth $7T a year.
Where does $7T go, Ro. Riddle me that.
Katie thinks the scandal is that I want billionaires to pay a little more in taxes.
The real scandal is that a handful of billionaires now hold vastly more wealth than millions of working Americans.
I believe those who have succeeded through work and entrepreneurship, including my family, should support our nation that made that success possible.
That’s the difference in our philosophy.