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Billionaire Richard Branson: America should give out free cash to fix income inequality
CNBC ^ | 2 Jul 18 | Catherine Clifford

Posted on 07/02/2018 2:57:13 PM PDT by seanmerc

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To: seanmerc

Why not open his private Caribbean Island to low income families? They need a vacation too.


21 posted on 07/02/2018 3:13:17 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: seanmerc

C’mon Richard, you’re a bright man, do we have to point out the obvious to you....?


22 posted on 07/02/2018 3:13:57 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: seanmerc

Hey Richard, start with your money....my husband is 81 and still working. $1M would be a kind donation.


23 posted on 07/02/2018 3:14:25 PM PDT by native texan (wwg1wga)
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To: seanmerc

How the hell did this twit ever become rich?

I learned from an episode of Ducktales 30 years ago that this idea is stupid.


24 posted on 07/02/2018 3:14:29 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: seanmerc

Richard Branson, you can jump up ** ***.


25 posted on 07/02/2018 3:16:24 PM PDT by mywholebodyisaweapon (Thank God for President Trump.)
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To: seanmerc

Exactly.


26 posted on 07/02/2018 3:18:37 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: seanmerc

Branson knows damn well that if you give money to the poor, the rich will get it all back in no time.


27 posted on 07/02/2018 3:19:25 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: VanDeKoik
How the hell did this twit ever become rich?

Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield

28 posted on 07/02/2018 3:19:52 PM PDT by DrDavid (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: seanmerc

Richard Branson should give out free money in the ghettos until his income is equalized with the income of everyone in the ghettos.


29 posted on 07/02/2018 3:19:55 PM PDT by arthurus (er)
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To: seanmerc

Bono agrees. As long as he doesn’t have to pay.


30 posted on 07/02/2018 3:20:14 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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How about we start with your money, hypocrite?

Exactly. Why is it all these billionaires tell us to give away our own hard-earned money yet never offer theirs?

Taxing people who make $12/hr to give part of it to others who don't want to work is outright theft.

31 posted on 07/02/2018 3:20:26 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: seanmerc

Goofy as hell. Personification of rich, asskissing hypocrite.


32 posted on 07/02/2018 3:20:29 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Call RedHen (540) 464-4401 and make no-show reservations)
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He can get back to us after he’s given away 99% of his wealth for this cause.
He would still be rich and the 99% would have been squandered.


33 posted on 07/02/2018 3:21:48 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: FreeperCell

Now that he’s older, he doesn’t look nearly as bad. That is, he wouldn’t...except he’s still got enough giant teeth for 3 or 4 people.


34 posted on 07/02/2018 3:21:50 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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He is free to start doing that at any time.

No one is stopping him.

He could get a list of the thousand neediest families and start sending them checks tomorrow if he wanted to.

But... he doesn't want to.

He wants the government to take money at gun point from other people, those who might be challenging his role as king of the mountain.

His own personal money will be safe, he just has to pay off a politician or two.

What a slime ball.

35 posted on 07/02/2018 3:22:34 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies!! Or maybe midgets....)
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To: seanmerc

Is that really Branson?
Now I know who Austin Powers was based on.


36 posted on 07/02/2018 3:23:57 PM PDT by GnuThere
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The only way to do that (and it wouldn’t be enough) is to strip every billionaire of every dollar or pound they’ve got and redistribute it.

How do such stupid people get so rich?
If I get a lobotomy will I start making piles of money?


37 posted on 07/02/2018 3:24:30 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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You could take the Assets of every Millionaire and Billionaire in the United States, cash them out and send that Money to the Treasury and it wouldn’t make a dent in our National Debt. It would be a rounding error at best.

IIRC a few years ago the Left was all about taking the 1%'ers money. I read somewhere that if we took everything they had it would run the US Government for about 80 days, then there would be no more 1%'ers to steal from and the government would still be spending money like a drunken sailor.

38 posted on 07/02/2018 3:24:42 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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Love love LOVE President Trump’s actions in office so far... However, one of the reasons I was a Cruz guy in the Primaries was that I was deathly afraid that the electorate would start looking to celebrities and the hyper-rich for political leadership... and we could potentially get more guys in office like this one.


39 posted on 07/02/2018 3:26:36 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: arthurus

C’mon, liberals, rich or not, don’t dare mix in the ghetto

Their precious “Diversity” has to come to them.

And only in infinitesimal numbers


40 posted on 07/02/2018 3:27:45 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Call RedHen (540) 464-4401 and make no-show reservations)
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