Millionaires Band Together Calling For Virus Wealth Tax | Morning Joe | MSNBC

Abigail Disney, CEO of Fork Films and host of 'All Ears' podcast, joins Morning Joe to discuss being one of many multi-millionaires calling for higher taxes to help with coronavirus relief. Aired on 9/23/2020.
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    1. pepperjack77 I don’t hate anyone, I just believe in responsibility and supporting one’s self instead of looking at government for assistance, government just keeps us free so we can pursue our own happiness

    2. @Barry Faulkner I can appreciate that perspective. I don’t disagree with you. I just also think, in addition to keeping us safe, it is responsible for preventing those in power from preventing everyone else that works hard and plays by the rules, from being successful at a minimum level. And that’s not what we have anymore. Anyone wealthy enough can grease the pockets of greasy politicians to ensure that their wealth is unfairly protected. I believe in grit and determination like you. Why are the wealtlhy and their posterity shielded from that?

  1. Millionaires volunteering to give away some of their cash to the poor? It’s rare but I’m down for it. Meanwhile Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft ain’t giving back a cent. Please believe that.

    1. Bill Gates gave over half his fortune to charity, years ago. He also has clean water projects, in third world countries. Microsoft gets a pass. Bezos is crap, though.

    2. @Dave Schultz 1/2 the workforce earns less than $32,000 per year, Schultzie. What the heck could they afford to give?

    3. Jobs and Gates were very good friends and owned adjacent ranches here in Palm Beach County. Nobody begrudges innovators their mansion or ranch, but _how many of these does one person really need?_

  2. Now this is Americans helping other Americans. We’re all on our own with Donny and the republicans in power. It’s good to see there are still good ppl out there.

  3. Mitch McConnell thinks that money if given to the needy it’s going to hurt him financially, Moscow Mitch needs to go, he is hurting this country as much as Trump is.

  4. And there are grown adults in this country that thought electing a sociopath billionaire was going to benefit anyone except the wealthiest 10% and meanwhile he’s bankrupting all of us, stupid lemmings

  5. Taking responsibility for one another IS PATRIOTISM, Donald. Therefore PLEASE vote BLUE straight down the ticket. BIDEN HARRIS 2020

    1. @Schuyler Ebbets Your summing up sounds a lot like what will happen if Trump gets another 4 years . You talk about democracy but have no idea what it means . Trump is looking to become a dictator , he has already started with the way he has Bill Barr manipulating and corrupting the legal system in america . Take a look at the lead up to Hitler gaining power , thats a prime example

    2. @Thomas Armsworthy Jr Ageism is a prejudice. Reality is you will get older so at what age should you just be considered irrelevant by society

    1. Nobody in the US cares. Go to a Wal-Mart and see how many people put their own shopping carts away. It’s easy and simple, yet hardly anybody does it. I gave up on the people in this world a long time ago. I’m just waiting to die.

    2. @sun dial did you know that he actually only had that as part of his party name just to win over people who just wanted a good economy?

    3. @Rory Cannon
      He still was a Socialist no matter how you want to spin it..and fascism usually comes from the left….😁

  6. “The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt –

    1. I KNOW SOME PEOPLE DON’T REALIZE IT BUT THIS WHOLE MASSIVE GAP STARTED WITH PRESIDENT REAGAN’S TRICKLE DOWN POLICY. NOTHING HAS TRICKLED DOWN TO MIDDLE AND WORKING CLASS PEOPLE. TAX BREAKS FOR CORPORATIONS AND THE RICH, CREATED GREAT WEALTH FOR THEM BUT INSTEAD OF INVESTING IN THE ECONOMIC WELFARE OF AMERICANS, THEY INVESTED IN AU TO DECREASE THEIR LABOR COSTS AND STARTED TO OFSHORE THEIR MANUFACTURING . THIS RESULTED IN A STAGNANT MINIMUM WA THAT IS ST NOT KEEPING UP WI THE COST OF LIVING.. ADD TO THIS, THE RICULIOUS COST OF ED NEEDED TO KEEP UP WI THE RAPIDLY CHANGING TECHNOLOGY , THE REFUSAL TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE, A BROKEN INFRASTRUCTURE AND AN INCREASINGLY ECONOMICAL INACCESSIBLE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, NOW IS WHAT WE’RE AT. TRUMP IS NOT THE ONE TO BEGIN TO LEAD US OUT OF THIS MESS. NO EMPATHY , NO MORALITY NOT IN CONTACT WITH REALITY OR TRUTH.

    2. @Nemesis1ism You need to look into where Trump actually is making money, much of it is from his hotels and much of that is from foreign government officials. Then you need to check the constitutionality of him accepting money from his hotels even without the foreign payments.

      Do you know that Trump is planning on hosting next year’s G-7 summit at Trump International Doral in Miami? He is not planning on having the summit there at no cost to the government. Again that’s an unconstitutional income for Trump.

      I suggest you learn more about your Orange God.

      #TrumpLiarInChief
      #MrTrumpTestItOnYourselfFirst
      #TrumpTheOrangeGod
      #TrumpTheOrangeAlien

    3. @Brian Nave When was the last time that a “scam” or hoax killed more than 200,000 US citizens in about 7 months? The total US citizen death toll of all US military actions (including the cold wars which were not shooting wars) since 1898, that’s 122 years ago, is 630,165. Do you really want to call something that has killed around 1/3 of the total number of war related deaths for about 122 years and done it in less than a year a “scam”? Are you really that divorced from reality?

      I looked at the site your link pointed to and I notice that they are taking data from little more than a one month duration at most. So they are looking at mainly youths in their 20s without high risks for death due to the pandemic and this data doesn’t cover a long enough period for severe cases to run their course and therefore deaths could still occur in your sample data. Additionally your sample is on the small side compared to the sample of all the recorded instances and doesn’t cover the full spectrum of age groups. IOW, you are presenting faulty data and should retract your whole statement.

      #TrumpLiarInChief
      #MrTrumpTestItOnYourselfFirst
      #TrumpTheOrangeGod
      #TrumpTheOrangeAlien

  7. Well we know her parents raised her right. I guess there’s two types of rich kids the Brett Kavanaugh who thinks the world owes them something and they can do no wrong because they’ll get away with it and this woman who believes you should help those in need with a hand up not a handout when you’re rich good for her much respect and love to her

  8. Back in the 70’s, HP reacted to a recession as follows: everybody (including the founders, Hewlett and Packard) took a 25% pay cut until the crisis passed. Everybody kept their job, they just got less. You don’t see any of that now, but you should.

  9. Well since Disney also owns Fox besides money she could start by getting rid of Tucker Carlson and Sean hannity and all those other idiots that back up Putin’s puppet.

  10. If anything, the virus has proven that the people at the bottom are “essential”. It’s not the CEOs who run the engine of our economy, it’s the average American worker.

    1. @L Nur But what they were talking about was the workers they’ve given little or no thought too in the past. Talking about the greeters, people who clean the grounds, bathroom’s, waiter & waitresses,etc…

    2. That is so true . Those people , the C EO’S etc forget that without those people they would not have a business . Without the garbage truck workers they would be knee deep i crap , the ones who lay pipes for water , all of them are the mainstay of any economy

    3. Lee Anderson exactly and now trumps cdc is hiding the numbers, Trump has admitted he’s slowing down testing, “less testing less cases”

    4. @Marco Salazar Here’s what’s real. In an apocalypse money is worthless. Food, water, and the knowledge on how to support yourself and survive is more valuable than money. Just a few weeks ago Toilet Paper was the most valuable commodity on the planet. This pandemic has demonstrated to the rich that the low paid “essential” workers can survive without them and they are scared. That is why they are doing everything they can to hang onto power and keep the lower classes in line so they can stay at the top. Vote the repluglicans out in November.

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