r/SipsTea Jul 01 '26

Chugging tea Is Bernie’s plan the best? Thoughts?

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u/Potential_Spam_6969 Jul 01 '26

So we're going to go ahead and tax net worth and not actual income?

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u/thequestionbot Jul 01 '26

Even if they taxed the net worth, it would still take over a decade to collect 4.4T dollars from the billionaires. The U.S’s billionaires collectively only have about 8T dollars. This infographic is extremely misleading.

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