Romney fordert in einem Kommentar der New York Times höhere Steuern für Vermögende
https://thehill.com/business/economy/5657367-romney-proposes-wealth-tax/
Romney fordert in einem Kommentar der New York Times höhere Steuern für Vermögende
https://thehill.com/business/economy/5657367-romney-proposes-wealth-tax/
37 Kommentare
I know this has been a busy week in news, but I’m surprised this isn’t getting more attention.
Mr „Half the country are takers“ is admitting the wealthy isn’t paying their fair share. All that „trickle down“ BS…he’s admitting it’s BS.
I am suspicious of Romney’s gradual evolution but if it’s all sincere, I am all for it.
Easier to say this after you’ve left your position to really make any change. Fuck these people.
Just another wealthy venture capitalist that can’t be trusted.
Google paid a 14% effective tax rate last year. They spent $62 billion on stock buybacks. The wealthiest 1% own 51% of all stocks outstanding. The wealthiest 10% own 91% of all stocks outstanding.
How is this system sustainable?
Either an oligarch surtax or re-instatement of the inheritance tax, or both. Americans can take back government only after oligarchs have moved on.
Love it when politicians become men of the people when they retire and lose the ability to actually make a change
>Corporations are people my friend
Never forget he helped usher in all the dark money that accelerated corporate and foreign influence into our system. We are in this situation largely due to Republicans like Romney.
Just like climate change has f*cked us up, it’s too late to make things right with how unbalanced wealth distribution is in this country.
The fact that 50 year mortgages are even a THOUGHT for how to make housing affordable to the NON 1% is horrifying.
Something he never said for all the years he was a US Senator . There is nothing more courageous than a retired Republican politician.
we’ve had 50 years of ‚greed is good‘, ’smash and grab‘ — top down economic priorities. there is no class solidarity like opulent class solidarity. so, i’ll take any class traitor we can get from the top.
How brave now that he’s not a lawmaker.
Although I agree with most of what Romney says here, there’s no mention of defense spending in his op-ed. We need an exhaustive audit of defense spending and outcomes, and make appropriate budget cuts. There has to be $billions in over-spending. When I was a contractor, almost EVERY year I got phone calls in October from military program managers, asking if I could spend money they hadn’t allocated yet. They were worried about use-or-lose money. Spending more was (and prob still is) a metric for promotions and raises. The more money a program manager could bring to their military base, the more stability and jobs would be created. It’s built-in to the culture.
In hindsight, had Romney won against Obama, his administration would not have been fundamentally different, but we would not be where we are today.
Oh sure, now that you’ve fucked us all for generations to come by locking in a 6-3 supermajority on the supreme court, NOW you’re willing to concede something. Fuck off, Romney.
we’ve been sinking like the Titanic ever since Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan changed the tax codes
Romney seems so nostalgic now as far as R’s go.
One of the very few reasonable republicans. Still 30 years too late.
Imagine where America would be if Romney won the 2016 GOP presidential nomination. What a different world this would be.
Mitt Romney is the only Republican that makes a lick of sense these days
Romney. Brother. It’s too late. You should’ve done this 25 years ago. And started a real movement.
What changed? The fact that he no longer is funded by the Republican establishment?
Some think that the speed of light is the universal constant but C is actually when Republicans are out of power they demonstrate moral social reasoning.
Nobody her is engaged with his argument, just him as a person. This is US politics in 2025 and it sucks.
He’s 100% right, and if you want good policy that will help save our country from financial ruin and save these important entitlement programs, then you should be backing his stance. You don’t need to back him as a person to do so.
TLDR: ugh
It’s great that he said this. Would have been better when he was a senator and had some ability to actually get this accomplished, though. This is just performative bullshit from a guilty conscience that doesn’t want history to remember him as a soulless money hoarder. Which he is.
He knows what’s coming if they don’t address this. 🇫🇷 solution….
Would have been better had you proposed this from your SENATE SEAT, Romney… :/
But cool, better than nothing.
I like to think I’m an open minded person but if I have an economic come to Jesus moment in my 70s, reversing fundamental ideas I’ve had for decades, I’d honestly be embarrassed.
Don’t let him fool you. Were he to ever be in a position to make this happen, he wouldn’t do it.
Why did he never vote that way while in office?
“Now that I’m almost dead, you gotta tax rich assholes like me!”
Corporations are people
Who cares what you think now coward!
This used to be a thing…until Willard and folks like him spent 45 years undoing it and coincidentally killing the middle class system. Soon everyone will be a pitchfork owning plumber. Thank god for trade schools.
You could have a 100% income tax and the rich would still not pay an extra penny, thanks to dividends and preferential loans on assets. There needs to be a way to tax wealth.
Just tax 100 billionaires and that will be that.
“After a career in positions of power, I’ve decided to start advocating for sensible policies in retirement.” – way way too many Republican politicians.