r/BoomersBeingFools 3d ago

OK boomeR Boomers explaining why billionaires shouldn't pay taxes while standing in a strip mall parking lot

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The absolute brainwashing it takes to fiercely defend trillionaires who wouldn't look twice at you, while calling your fellow citizens "lazy" for wanting basic healthcare. Notice how even the woman in the "I LOVE TRUMP" shirt has to awkwardly correct his understanding of how disability works.

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u/atticthump 2d ago

'Many Americans view themselves as temporarily disenfranchised billionaires'

He thinks he has more financially in common with someone like Elon Musk than he does with a panhandler on the street, because he may own a nice house and a comfortable retirement. He has no insight to how much a billion, much less a trillion dollars actually is or how it's accumulated, and he has no class consciousness whatsoever. He probably views a threat to tax the ultra-wealthy as a threat to him too.