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It’s like trying to reason with a three-year-old.
If I had the money, I’d self-deport my entire family to some scenic mountain canton (just a modest chalet will do) in a heartbeat.
I have no problem with Bern’s proposal. I just have a problem with lack of funds.
Many of these billionaires are rapists anyway.
Getting rid of rich people would help the wealth gap, but then who is going to pay my kids’ college tuition?
We need to build a wall of regulation and have Them pay for it.
I am not as smart as I am handsome, but isn’t Vail in the U.S?
Jimmy Carter – Not sure how I missed that aspect: will save for later and thanks! BrentB67 – You’re right: Vail would be a refugee camp where their long, tortuous journey begins.
BB67 . . . once again proving he can navigate. Show off! ;~)
Dave – nevermind – we all laughed anyway!
I am not a billionaire, yet, but will sacrifice if need be and self deport from Dallas to Vail from the 4th of July to Labor Day each year. Please do not weep for me. Somebody has to soak up the cool mountain air.
Self-deportation is not enough. They must be frog-marched out of the country in handcuffs.
Since Colorado legalized marijuana, Vail so high that it’s technically no longer under U.S. jurisdiction.
Well, I am as smart as You are handsome. No, it isn’t.
[couldn’t resist]
Is he talking to the Clintons? Please let it be so. :)
Right, but we need to preemptively deport people who may become millionaires. Sorry.
Texas is a whole other country. Guess I will stay put.
And you’re as handsome as Brent is smart.
[didn’t occur to me to resist]
Oh wonderful. We have a pre-Friday happy hour thread going and it ends up on the Main Feed.
My handsome, humble cover is blown.
No wonder They call Him “Einstein.”
That’s alright by me as long as those no-good rich folk leave their wealth behind. I wouldn’t mind getting naked and rolling around in the tall stacks of money that’ll, no doubt, be left in their swimming pools.
As I recall, wealth inequality was supposed to be the centerpiece issue of Bernie Sanders’ campaign. What happened?
If all those billionaires self-deport, who will he have to “soak”?
Isn’t that “a whole nother country”?
Mark Zuckerberg has just announced his decision to move to Switzerland. This may explain FB’s spectacular performance on NASDAQ today.
Now, if only John Walker could explain how I could afford to gain Swiss citizenship…
You know, the first paragraph was so plausible that I didn’t understand it was a joke until I read below the fold.
DD,
Bernie is certifiable. For that matter so is Hillary.
Regards,
Jim
I don’t know if you’d like it, Brent. Colorado is not as gun-friendly as they were a few years ago. Wyoming may be more to your liking.
Then he can rant about all the evil Ferners!
I don’t think that’s really what Bernie means. His point is that most billionaires would probably still prefer to stay in the US even under more severe tax conditions… right? (just checking, I’m never 100% sure about anything Sanders-related).
He should be careful what he wishes for, though – if an exodus of American billionaires suddenly looked possible, I’m sure there are plenty of countries around the world looking to offer them a sweet deal.
James Gawron – Your brevity is admirable. You should be a comedian.
The Senator from Cloud-cuckoo-land surely could extend his death embrace to the centimillionaires, to include the soon-to-be president from Cloud-cuckoo-land & the acting diplomat of that exalted jurisdiction…
Then the Dems could have a battle royale. Old, weak, & filthy rich, they’d make quite a spectacle. The self-loathing of the principled lefty would guarantee a dance of phantoms, or, being Americans, zombies invading & ruining your country. No one ever told you that the zombie apocalypse starts with Sen. Sanders–that’s media bias for you…