oh no, not my jet.
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They are scared. Good.
It's written for the 1 percent but about 25 percent will gobble it down like a delicious boot
Go ahead. Tax every one I have.
Mamdami should be president
Unfortunately he’s wasn't born in the United States.
Oh no my private... Wait, I don't have a jet. And if I did, I could afford a tax.
Wait are people at fortune mad and scared?
That’s my fetish.
I both love and hate it when Fortune forgets that The Poors can read their garbage too 😄
Let's be honest here, they didn't forget, they didn't even factor or care about the opinion of the working class. It's Fortune, not Pay Check to Pay Check magazine.
This whole article just reads like a deaf man who can’t hear the woosh of a falling guillotine blade.
The author wanted to make Mamdani's policies sound bad, but all I could think after each paragraph was "hell yeah".
Right? Here's a good example:
If you own an apartment in New York and don’t live there full-time, you’re taxed. If your heirs inherit assets in New York, they’re taxed at thresholds that now reach the upper middle class. The logical extension of this trajectory — and the question the entire private aviation industry should be asking — is: what about the $70 million jet you landed at Teterboro this morning?
It's very interesting to see just how out of touch they are. You can even see him trying to appeal to non-billionaires by making it sound like he actually gives a fuck about them. "Omg, you're inheriting a million dollar property? How will you handle the taxes?!? 😱" Then quickly pivots to a more familiar scenario to people in his echelon: "what if I have to pay a fair tax on this ridiculous lifestyle I'm living?!?
Good. Great, even. Fuck these rich asshole climate criminals.
Fuck you and your private jet
Am I supposed to feel bad for sociopathic billionaires?
"Your" private jet
Lmao, exactly. Mamdani can tax all of my private jets at 100%* for all I care, and I’m not even in NY!
*I of course am a normal person, not a bloodsucking billionaire or whatever, and own 0 private jets, nor will I ever own one.
When my butler read this to me, I couldn't contain my outrage.
Oh no, not my private jet…
Whatever is the world coming to?
If he pays his fair share of taxes... He would likely still own everything he owns but wouldn't have as many 0's adorning the big important number in his bank account. Just devestating to see someone forced to pay their fair share, lol
No friend of mine owns a private jet. Tax them out of existence
99% of the people think "good!". The other 1% have the power to make this go away.
177k arrivals and departures per year from Teterboro? That is one privat jet every 3 minutes. That is insanse.
They probably aren't all private jets. A lot of people own small prop planes. It's not cheap, but you don't have to be a billionaire to fly.
That only accounts for like 5%
I thought the number was higher, but it's 85% private jets and 15% small airplanes.
Good.
I'm stuck using paper straws all so some cunt can fly in private luxury?
Truly baffling to read just how disconnected some people are.
Nice of him to include tax evasion strategies right in the communique to his socioeconomic classmates.
This is tax avoidance, not tax evasion. The goal is to avoid owing taxes, not to avoid paying taxes owed.
To the lowly taxpayer, it all looks the same, that they refuse to pay their fair share, but legally there's a pretty big difference.
"tax evasion strategy" is also inconvenient so it's like a congestion charge. There are other options if you want to use them, or pay a charge.
Just do it and shut up. Talk about something else. How are the bees doing this season?
Better! They figured out a vaccine for the virus that has been causing the majority of bee colony collapse and we’ve been seeing huge turnarounds. They treated them in my area and they have been flourishing this year, it’s been a huge relief to see them in healthy numbers again.
No fucking way, that’s badass! That brings me pure joy. Thank you for sharing that. Going to look for an article that covers this, curious how certain areas are recovering. Here in New York there’s a decent size group who been working really hard supporting the bees.
OMG, that is wonderful news! I actually hadn’t heard about this. Off to search for more info about it.
Ditto, I’m doing the same. That’s so cool to hear
Good
I almost fainted, then re-read the header and saw shey will tax my jet, so I got relief. I thought they would be taxing my yatch!
We need to find cheap and easy ways for everyday people to build MANPAD's explicitly to shoot down private jets. Make it so that pilots won't want to fly them, and the rich will be too scared
They can take my private jet from my cold dead hands..... once I buy one.
Ahh yes. The “Lemmy” users with private jets.
Huge cross-over in that Venn diagram 🙄
Lenny users
Lemmy's evil rich people only sister instance