Lio by Mark Tatulli for May 03, 2020

We can all dream.

Well, he gets my vote.

At least Elon Musk is doing his part.

Nobody gets to be a billionaire without creating something that millions, even billions, of people want and pay for. If you don’t like billionaires, then trying living your life without everything they’ve made possible for you.

But not the billionaires that are bringing back our rocket missions!

We can use one of those in Florida, it can start in Tallahassee and then go to Washington DC though it will probably break down via overwork, kind of like any online Florida government service….

And his next invention should be politician-be-gone…

When you look at the Carnegies, Vanderbilts and the other multi millionaires in the early 1900s you see a lot of income inequality and where their wealth was sometimes acquired , shall we say a little underhanded. However, we have lots of libraries created by Carnegie. In the same way today we have lots of those billions going to foundations and research (al la, Bill Gates). In addition, those billionaires employ lots of workers. The “poor” don’t employ anyone. Think again before wanting to get rid of all the billionaires and millionaires.

Even billionaires deserve to be judged individually and not be subject to prejudice.

@pschearer – maybe during the Industrial Revolution but not anymore. Your premise is antiquated at best, and false at worst.

This went sideways fast. Good guy with a billion does great things, bad guy with a billion does irreparable harm. Like dismantling democracy. Some kind of rules are needed.

What good is a billionaire’s hoard? After you buy fifty mansions, a hundred yachts, a legislature or three, or a gross of Slovenian models, what does having a billion rupees or rubles or bucks really get you?

Geez, I was going to comment on another Lio contraption with the Dr. Seuss touch, but apparently there are other things to be urgently and angrily argued.

No thanks to a commie final solutiion.

For many decades, the French aristocracy struggled to maintain power, relying on laws and traditions, and employing many who were not aristocrats to be their “voice” and explain to the masses why things were the way they were, and how nothing would change.

Many historians have argued that because of this intransigence, the revolution that finally occurred was bloodier and more violent than it might otherwise have been.

Tell me, please. What has any child done to deserve what it inherits from their parents? Rich and poor alike?

America is the land of opportunity. Congrats to all the millionaires and billionaires on their success. They can do whatever they want with their money. I have no claim to one penny of it.

The idea of inheritance taxes was to make the next generation earn their own millions, instead of living of their inheritance. The next generation still got a big boost from what was left and the government had more money to work with without having to borrow constantly. Now we have economic dynasties and high federal deficits. We are more like Russia than the old America.

true that!

You can have very rich people. I have no problem with that. I do have a problem with soulless ghouls who suck the life and feelings out of everyone. Those who completely lack faith, sympathy, empathy, and charity have run amok under the guise of the very thing they’ve crushed. They are the very thing they claim they fight against. Vile, heartless demagogues who claim they’re good (insert whatever group here) and yet rely on sycophants too dumb to realize their playbook comes from Goebbels. Patriots? Bah, any real patriot of this nation is rolling in their grave every time those parasites claim they’re defending your security by subborning the constitution. Their idea of a grater good is <1% controlling what could benefit millions upon millions of people in need and leaving the nation worse off every day. There’s absolutely no justice as long as these reptiles keep ruling by the ideology of “Just Us!”

Lio’s Non-Lethal Street Sweeper (unlike the 12-round shotgun) is just what we need to clean up the corporate-gummymint complex! Go, Lio and Ishmael. Your cause is just, and your strength is as the strength of a regiment!

You can try to excuse the 1% all day but it remains that wages are too low overall and benefits are generally small or non-existant – that’s the way money gets made. It’s greed that’s destroying us. Just look at the billionaire at the helm. And he ain’t the only one. Greed.