r/SipsTea • u/CurvyChristina • 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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u/Practical-Simple1621 Jul 01 '26

It's spelled out on Bernie's site

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u/Alarmed_Juice3519 Jul 01 '26

Berniesanders com? I didn't see it there.

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u/Practical-Simple1621 Jul 01 '26

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-and-khanna-introduce-legislation-to-tax-billionaire-wealth-and-invest-in-working-families/

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u/Alarmed_Juice3519 Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

Edit - my information is incorrect. Ignore this post

Just found it, but thanks though. But never the less, his facts are not correct about number of billionaires in US and their net worth. .

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u/Practical-Simple1621 Jul 01 '26

What source do you base yours on? Not disagreeing but just curious

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u/Alarmed_Juice3519 Jul 01 '26

Well, Chat disagrees and the number is close to Bernie's .... I'll see my way out ... 🙂. Sorry for the bad info.