America, we have a problem. Billionaires are a blight on this country. Some are criminals. Some enter the country illegally only to buy citizenship, bypassing the normal waiting period of real working people. Billionaires commonly avoid paying their taxes, openly seek tax breaks, or use fancy legal “loop holes” to pay substantially less than middle class citizens.
Billionaires drain the budget while simultaneously demanding special legal treatment. We celebrate these scallywags while most of us work hard, pay taxes and follow the law. Let’s reduce the deficit by fairly taxing the rich and holding them to it!
In the meantime, a prudent step would be to send them to detention centers where they will no longer tap into our hard-earned tax dollars. Luckily, some of these camps are already under construction. We need to avoid arresting those pursuing the American dream via hard work (aka, “pulling themselves up by their bootstraps”), detain the real criminals, and hold them in facilities fit to their anti-constitutional and often criminal behavior. No need for trials where actual evidence may be presented, it is obvious to us that such persons are bad actors not worthy of U.S. citizenship.
While all billionaires are not “bad apples,” we need to get tough on those who are actively running up our national debt through corporate welfare and special insider deals for government contracts. Cracking down on billionaire theft will surpass all alleged DOGE savings in a matter of months. If only billionaires played by the same rules as the rest of us, we’d be a lot better off financially, environmentally, legally, and morally.
What would this country look like if we rewarded the working person and penalized the cheaters? That sounds like an America I can be proud of.
Paul Rogers, Logan
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