Thread by @Doc_0

The U.N. Secretary General wants a "wealth tax" for companies that profited during the pandemic. How about if we tax the wealth of POLITICIANS who profited from the pandemic? They're planning to line their pockets with more trillions as we speak.

abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/c…

The biggest pandemic profiteers are state-owned or state-controlled Chinese businesses, by the way. Good luck confiscating THEIR wealth to fund some globalist effort to alleviate income inequality.

But we should all be sick and tired of this game where private earnings are forever at risk of confiscation by politicians in the name of "fairness," while the immense wealth of the political elite is 100% secure. You can never touch THEIR personal or imperial fortunes.

Every penny the State takes becomes a sacred offering to the ideological gods. Money and property seized by politicians is never viewed as "profit" and no amount can ever be an "excessive" insult against the holy principle of "fairness." It's a nifty little rigged game.

The State and our political elite are never expected to make do with less. They're never accused of having too much money. They're never held accountable for where the money goes. Their endless greed and vicious opportunism are never assailed as "profiteering."

Our diseased political class can't even be bothered to chip in a nickel for all this "infrastructure" they claim we need. They won't shave a hair off their pet projects, slush funds, or bureaucratic fiefdoms. They won't even give us an honest bill to cover the "infrastructure."

No, the best we can get are bills that grab oceans of OUR money and tentatively promise that MAYBE the political elite will spend a dime on infrastructure for every dollar we let them gobble up for their other fantasies and desires. How is THAT not "profiteering?"

What private American company has a rate of 80 or 90 percent pandemic profiteering to match the hideous appetites of our bloated political class? Which company has ripped us off on anywhere NEAR the scale Democrats are planning to? Who delivers less value for the dollar?

How about those greedy teachers unions, top Democrat donors who are happily sending a generation of American kids to education hell while they demand ever larger payoffs before they'll even THINK about going back to work? Are they profiteering? Where's THEIR wealth tax?

"Profiteering" is a dangerous and frequently dishonest concept, as the politicians who sling the word around usually have no idea what profit margins truly are, how industries work, or what costs, risks, and sacrifices are made to conduct business at a sustainable profit.

But when there really is profiteering going on, you can bet you'll find politicians - usually loudmouth left-wing socialists - mixed up in the deal. Honest-to-God profiteering usually requires anti-competitive power, and Big Government is the only vendor for that junk.

Private companies always end up taking the fall when the public grows outraged or a disaster blows up the lucrative symbiosis between Big Biz and Big Gov. The politicians walk away scot-free. Sometimes they profit even MORE after the debacle. See: 2008 financial crisis.

It takes a lot of political influence to get the value-per-dollar ratio of private industry down to the miserable nickel and dime ratio we inexplicably tolerate from Big Government spending. Capitalism needs socialist consultants to become as corrupt and inefficient as socialism.

Let's stop treating wealth as sacred and untouchable once a politician grabs it. Let's start confiscating THEIR riches and forcing THEM to sacrifice for the "greater good." Time for the biggest investor, employer, and landowner in America to start paying some wealth taxes. /end