Bill Burr is a legend. Here he is unloading on billionaires;
After talking about what refugees contribute to their adopted country, Pat unloads on jurisdiction-shopping techno-feudalists;
"Why aren't we helping more people at the bottom? Rather than these guys who don't need help, just because they have already amassed a huge portion of wealth, and not shared it with anybody. I don't see why we should be trying to attract these people."
#PatBrittenden, 2025
Preach.
There are wealthy people like the Koch Brothers or Peter Thiel, who would rather see the world burn than pay more taxes. Then there are wealthy people who *want* to pay more #tax, like Nick Hanauer (co-host of the excellent Pitchfork Economics podcast), or this lot;
Or this lot in Aotearoa;
Why would we want to make our country more attractive to the sociopaths in the first group, rather than the altruists in the second by raising taxes?!?