Why the wealthy are about to become the most despised life form in America.

[Augiedog]

It’s quite simple really, they are going accrue greater wealth, unnecessarily, at the expense and physical harm to the most vulnerable and least able in our nation.

Their failure to give voice to an effort to stop their newly unearned wealth is on their shoulders. They will try to claim that congress and that evil orange haired guy did this, not them. But you never heard a squeak out of them as they saw the golden shower coming. Well, maybe a few giggles, but.....

The harm about to unfold and enfold the vast majority of Americans will eclipse anything we have seen before. Financial, medical and social turmoil will just be the beginning as the full impact unfolds and wrecks merciless havoc across states, cities, towns, families and individuals. Kansas will look like a wildly successful experiment compared to what is coming.

The wealthy in this country could have tried to resist this, knowing that all they will get really is some cash. What they will reap is going to be far worse than what they planned on or even considered.

[Orrex]

1. They absolutely won't give a shit until we show up at their door with pitchforks

And then they'll deploy their loyal police forces to "disperse" us.

[democratisphere]

5. How are they going to disperse the Multimillion Man (and Woman) March?!

[Orrex]

6. Oh, that? They'll ignore it outright.

The way they've ignored all the other progressive marches.

[DBoon]

8. Fear of communism was all that kept them in check

They didn't want to end up like the Russian aristocracy, so they pretended to be civil to the peons

Since the collapse of communism, they realized they could get away with anything

[Irish_Dem]

2. They don't care and they can buy a lot of positive PR or distraction campaigns

if they need to do so to keep their wealth or accrue more.

Being a multibillionaire provides a lot of distance from the riffraff.

[SCantiGOP]

3. No, they won't and they shouldn't

I am not comfortable in painting any group or class in our society with a broad brush. Many, many of the wealthy are among the most open and aggressive opponents of Trump and the GOP cabal.
The fact that a tax cut is going to disproportionately favor the rich is no reason to hate on an entire segment of our population.

[Bradshaw3]

10. Do you have any proof to back up that claim?

That "many, many of the wealthy are among the most open and aggressive opponents of Trump and the GOP cabal"? Sure there are some like Buffett and Gates but I can start with the Kochs and Adelsons and build a long list of billionaires who will be happy to get their tax windfall and spend it on even more houses, bots, etc. Maybe not so much with millionaires but the very richest, the oligarchs, are driving this country through the GOP.

[elleng]

11. Thanks.

[ret5hd]

4. Someday those gated communites will be locked from the outside.

[handmade34]

7. ironically

from my 12 years traveling throughout the U.S. (work) I noted that most of the gated communities are not necessarily the richest... perception is everything sometimes...

often money buys a security that doesn't require a gate... our society is very ill

[tblue37]

9. Have you seen what Michael Bloomberg said about it?--

https://theguardiansofdemocracy.com/billionaire-michael-bloomberg-blasts-gop-tax-bill-ceos-dont-need-money/

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg Blasts Harmful GOP Tax Bill: We CEOs ‘Don’t Need The Money’

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Last month a Wall Street Journal editor asked a room full of CEOs to raise their hands if the corporate tax cut being considered in Congress would lead them to invest more. Very few hands went up,” Bloomberg wrote in a Bloomberg op-ed. “Attending was Gary Cohn, President Donald Trump‘s economic adviser and a friend of mine. He asked: ‘Why aren’t the other hands up?’”

“Allow me to answer that: We don’t need the money.”

“It’s pure fantasy to think that the tax bill will lead to significantly higher wages and growth, as Republicans have promised,” Bloomberg continued. “Had Congress actually listened to executives, or economists who study these issues carefully, it might have realized that.”

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Of course, when Obama pushed to raise taxes on the wealthy, Bloomberg said that was "about as dumb a policy as I can think of."