[seanmerc]

How about we start with your money, hypocrite?

[native texan]

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

[VanDeKoik]

How the hell did this twit ever become rich?

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

[mywholebodyisaweapon]

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

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Exactly.

[dfwgator]

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

[arthurus]

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

[Old Yeller]

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

[OldMissileer]

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.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Goofy as hell. Personification of rich, asskissing hypocrite.

[GnuThere]

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.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

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.

[GnuThere]

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

[TigersEye]

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?

[Teacher317]

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.

[MileHi]

No, British billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson, you should give out free cash. BTW, do you hire accountants to reduce your taxes as much as possible?

[Vlad The Inhaler]

[heights]

Just twittered him. Told him ‘Hey I’m a 65-year-old guy dying of Emphysema, pay off my $45,000 mortgage”... Yeah, right.

[Gritty]

“What do you think those in positions of power should do to address social problems like income inequality?”

Branson: "Hey, I"ve got a new and great idea. Let's again violate the Eight Commandment (You shall not steal) to once again break the Tenth Commandment (You shall not covet ... any thing that is your neighbor's) - all for political purposes and we will do it in the name of "compassion!"

That will probably work as well as it always has (i.e. it won't).

[Simon Foxx]

Early onset of senility - Exhibit 1.

[The Pack Knight]

“It’s a disgrace to see people sleeping on the streets with this material wealth all around them,” Branson said.

People sleeping on the streets has nothing to do with "income inequality" or even a shortage of affordable housing, as is often claimed. Actual "sleeping on the streets" homelessness is quite rare, and largely the result of mental illness and drug abuse. "Basic income," which is one of the most economically illiterate ideas I've ever heard, will do absolutely nothing for these people.

Basic income is a problem in search of a solution. As Walter E. Williams recently pointed out, "There is virtually no material poverty in the U.S." Today, "poverty" is misleadingly defined in relative rather than absolute terms, labeling people as "impoverished" who are lacking none of life's necessities, have access to significant luxuries, and enjoy a standard of living greater than what would be considered "middle class" in most of the world.

Universal basic income would not cure poverty. It would just become the new standard of poverty, with constant demands for a "living UBI," just as we see with the minimum wage today.