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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders to propose dramatic expansion in estate tax on richest Americans [View all]shanny
(6,709 posts)28. I must have missed where anybody suggested "confiscating everything."
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Bernie Sanders to propose dramatic expansion in estate tax on richest Americans [View all]
brooklynite
Jan 2019
OP
Many of the billionaires today created their own businesses, and people like Elon Musk
Calista241
Jan 2019
#23
For starters, your $3.5 million dollar business is one hundred percent exempt.
Hassin Bin Sober
Feb 2019
#48
Didn't Elizabeth Warren just do this? Is he copying her or reacting to her?
NurseJackie
Jan 2019
#11
The world was different back then. Today, a company can operate from anywhere.
oldsoftie
Feb 2019
#62
It's good to see Bernie resuming Senatorial duties again. I fully support this measure
Tarc
Jan 2019
#14
Bernie feels like he isn't getting enough attention. That damn AOC and Warren gal
GemDigger
Jan 2019
#15
All I will say is that it seems like the middle class is struggling to make ends meet, and the
SWBTATTReg
Jan 2019
#19
Exactly. Whatever law they pass, you can find a way around most of it in short order.
oldsoftie
Feb 2019
#44
He used to rail against the "millionaires and billionaires and the top 1%"...
George II
Jan 2019
#34