Anand Giridharadas: All Democratic candidates should be asked one debate question

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.AnandWrites says all Democratic candidates should be asked one question: 'Do you want more billionaires or less?'

 

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AnandWrites More billionaires, more hope for everybody. I should aspire to be one, not run them out of town.

AnandWrites None.

AnandWrites NO. The only question they should be asked is HOW CAN THEY BEAT TRUMP.

AnandWrites I believe you meant to ask, “Do you want more billionaire Democratic candidates running for President”? Oh the irony of it all 😂

Lawrence AnandWrites Surely he means “smaller”

AnandWrites More

AnandWrites *fewer

AnandWrites *fewer

AnandWrites More .....that’s who they charge ALL of the programs to! Cmon. Wealth is not the problem. How we tax and how we spend is the problem.

AnandWrites Zimbabwe had lots of billionaires.

AnandWrites None. None at all.

AnandWrites Neither. We want FEWER; 'billionaires' is a countable noun, you knucklehead.

AnandWrites They shouldn't exist period.

AnandWrites MORE. We should want *everyone* to get richer. Wealth isn't finite. More billionaires doesn't mean more poor people.

AnandWrites Every billionaire is a policy failure

AnandWrites More... I want to be a billionaire

AnandWrites Correctly stated, the question should be: “Do you want more billionaires or fewer?”

AnandWrites This guy needs to not be held out by democrats as a positive messenger unless. First, he’s a hypocritical fraud and secondly his message is toxic in the sense that it will turn of moderate voters and drive right leaning folks straight into Trump’s arms.

AnandWrites Good billionaires responding to consumer demand create jobs. Because you hate fake billionaires don't hate all people with money.

AnandWrites They also should be asked how many receive donations from private prison companies.

Lawrence AnandWrites question is pretty irrelevant.

AnandWrites AnandWrites Your position is ridiculous!

AnandWrites This face look madeness

AnandWrites This is an absurd question. Whats the slogan for this? “America-where you’re success is limited!”

AnandWrites Billionaires should help pay more taxes

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Lawrence AnandWrites Less or none. One of those. Bloomberg should take his Republican butt and challenge Impeached directly. He could also play the Ross Perot role and peel off votes from Impeached.🤷🏽‍♂️ The DNC should give him his money back also.

Lawrence AnandWrites And all this time I thought the question was going to be more hair gel or less.🤣

Lawrence AnandWrites More of them! All paying their fair share in taxes. Success is not the problem. The tax code is the problem.

Lawrence AnandWrites The correct answer is more fool! If “Billionaires didn’t build that” then imagine how much wealth they created and shared because no one works for free except in a socialist society.

AnandWrites Yeah, at least one shallow question there for the laughs.

Lawrence AnandWrites Less! You don’t really earn a billion you take it! People can’t afford healthcare! What’s wrong with people!

Lawrence AnandWrites what the hell is wrong with billionaires? I'm sure some are greedy, etc.. but Bloomberg has donated $10B to charities, he doesn't steal from them, Steyer has put his $$ where his mouth is on climate, etc. why wouldn't we want the country to produce more billionaires?

AnandWrites Maybe some other year I’d care. But l I want now is to beat Trump and flip the Senate.

Lawrence AnandWrites Thank you AnandWrites! Your correct statements about billionaires and how they make it to that level were spot on. Nobody gets there by simply following the rules and working harder. Corners are cut and people are stepped on.

AnandWrites Ffs....

Lawrence AnandWrites If you cure cancer, invent the car, invent the computer, then you should be a billionaire. Anything else, no.

Lawrence AnandWrites This question is frankly dumb.

Lawrence AnandWrites why is that a relevent question

Lawrence AnandWrites *Fewer

AnandWrites The answer should be more, because that’s the American dream. Everyone can get rich.

Lawrence AnandWrites People on Twitter should be asked one question: 'When you're talking about a quantity, should you use the word 'less' or 'fewer'?'

Lawrence AnandWrites First, I need a billion dollars for research on this question.

AnandWrites Not about number of billionaires . It’s about fairness, they paying their fair share, do they believe in uplifting workers or are they stifling living wage, etc. ? Our system needs to evaluate our current capitalistic society and ask, “is this working for all Americans?”

AnandWrites Ridiculous question! The question is should they pay their fare share of taxes?

AnandWrites Not a concern.

AnandWrites I'd a lot rather a writer ask the question: 'Do you want more or fewer millionaires?'

AnandWrites ****'We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.' Justice Louis Brandeis

AnandWrites Is 'none' an option?

AnandWrites These people are just may I say it ridiculously on ivory tower without the poor masses they claim to represent. Just like Bernie Sanders who’s millionaire and wouldn’t show his taxes cuz we will know he is millionaire.

AnandWrites his question should be ' do you want everyone to hold tight at $15 an hour or aspire to be the best that's possible? He hates success.

AnandWrites How does this keep coming up in my timeline? Who is reading and subscribing to this mans theory?

AnandWrites Someone needs to tell the people pushing this shit that it’s not the government’s job to tell people how much money they are allowed to have. Seriously, wtf?!?!? This is why people think liberals want to take everything away from them. Regular ppl don’t care about this shit.

AnandWrites Less. The less money that is penned up at the top by a wealthy few, the more money moves around being exchanged by people. That’s what makes an economy go. Higher income inequality is associated with lower social mobility.

AnandWrites Do we want trump, yes or no. That’s the question. And the answer is NOOOO

AnandWrites Well, I mean as long as I am one of them, um more.

AnandWrites You can’t judge all billionaires by Trump. Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Michael Bloomberg are billionaires but have proven to be excellent inspiring leaders.

AnandWrites This is a terrible headline. I almost passed it over, and I sympathize w point being made. One has to watch the clip in full to understand properly. It's not about billionaires per se. It's about what we see happening now to our country. And why.

AnandWrites Less

AnandWrites It depends. If I could be one of them, I'd want more.

AnandWrites We should want many more billionaires. I would enjoy being one.

AnandWrites

AnandWrites Or *fewer*.

AnandWrites Fewer

AnandWrites Do Democrats want more or less millionaires? What do Democrats have against people that work hard and become successful?

AnandWrites grow up. we're capitalists stop making billionaires out to be the boogeyman

AnandWrites I thought billionaires were gonna pay for everything ?

AnandWrites None. Not one. The World has no need of Billionaires. What are they good for? What purpose do they serve?

AnandWrites We are a capitalist country after all! Nancy Pelosi

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AnandWrites Agreed

AnandWrites It’s a bit more complicated than that There are many billionaires in Scandinavia.

. AnandWrites Ummm... More or *fewer*

AnandWrites More . Who’s going to pay for everything?

AnandWrites More billionaires! 💰💰💰💰 But they need to pay their fair share of taxes.

AnandWrites I have no problem with billionaires as long as they pay a much higher % in taxes.

AnandWrites Candidates should? As if this is deciding factors for Americans. Or they should because of one, accidentally elected to WH, rest have to be put into the same garbage bin. No wonder NYC hustler is loughing at Dems.

AnandWrites Billionaires pay most of the taxes now, more would mean more tax revenue. But we have a spending problem no one talks about. And lower middle class and the poor pay no or little income tax, billionaires pay a lot. The fair share argument is hyperbole.

AnandWrites wrong question!!!do you want capitalism or socialism?

AnandWrites Anand is a pretentious psuedo intellectual fool! I learned a long time ago that it doesnt do any good to count or worry about other people's money, billionaire or not. He should do the same!

AnandWrites If it means more poverty and by avoiding taxes and stealing wealth from others then now if they come into it by like a Bill Gates then it’s cool

AnandWrites That's the dumbest question ever. Everyone wants less. But Republicans want less so they can consolidate power in a very few. Dems just want less because a billionaire is a fucking money trap for society.

AnandWrites Obviously more since billionaires are a byproduct of a healthy economy in capitalism. Who do think creates the jobs? The government?

AnandWrites What I want is for Elizabeth Warren to be our next president.

AnandWrites More!!!

AnandWrites Not everyone can be a billionaire. Next!

AnandWrites

AnandWrites I want Trump out and don’t give a sh*t abt any righteous revolution bs purity tests. Rich man, Poor man, just beat Trump.

AnandWrites Bernie has accumulated around $2 million in his life, mostly from writing three books and owning a DC condo for work plus his home in Vermont. Bloomberg is worth $60 billion. That's 30,000 times as much. Is he worth 30,000 Bernies?

AnandWrites Really tired of this sanctimonious clown.

AnandWrites I generally don’t like his analysis 🤷🏽‍♀️

AnandWrites Can I be one of ‘em? I’ll even settle for a summer camp.

AnandWrites While this will play well with Bernie’s base it won’t have much impact on voters who aren’t interested in class warfare. While the very wealthy should pay much more in taxes, there’s no need to demonize them, or divide the country into us vs. “them.”

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AnandWrites Depends if less Billionaires means reduced economic growth and reduced jobs and wages. Economies are dynamic. France tried a 75% wealthy tax and had to stop it within a year because it didn't generate the tax revenue expected and rich folks and companies left.

AnandWrites There are only two kinds of communists. Those that want to make the poor rich and those that want to make the rich poor.

AnandWrites AnandWrites More obviously with improved regulations and fair taxes. Who cares if Bloomberg is a billionaire? He would actually work and make govt works for us. Bloomberg is not a slouch

AnandWrites No problem with billionaires. Just have them pay their taxes without loopholes !

AnandWrites I have no problems with someone being a billionaire, I have a problem with them getting tax breaks that aren’t afforded to the middle class. I have a problem with large corps paying zero income tax because of tax breaks and tax shelters.

AnandWrites Socialists love to think that they are the most enlightened people on Earth because they’ve decided for themselves that it’s okay to steal other people’s money to make up for their own failures in life. maddow Lawrence

AnandWrites U never want a billionaire

AnandWrites That is so simplistic, I think that is what Bernie's followers are excited about, a simple answer to all the problems. They really don't seem to care that Bernie has absolutely no clue how to implement the changes, he thinks that blowing up the system is the fix.

AnandWrites You all keep this up & that Trump guy is going to get 4 MORE YRS IN OFFICE. You all truly don't know what you are doing. You are all screwing yourselves once again. I truly thought at least some of you in the USA were clued in. You all STILL do not get it. SHAKING MY HEAD, AGAIN

AnandWrites Doesn't matter. I care more about education, healthcare, affordable housing, climate change, racism, sexism and a whole lot of other things b4 I care about many rich ppl there are in the world.

AnandWrites If we get more, will at least one of them become Batman?

AnandWrites More or fewer. Sorry. Sometimes I just have to. It's a compulsion.

AnandWrites Obvs. more.

AnandWrites Only billionaire can create jobs !

AnandWrites *fewer

AnandWrites Tell him it should be 'fewer' billionaires, not 'less.'

AnandWrites If they pay their 25/35/45 whatever %, I don’t care.

AnandWrites Don’t care

AnandWrites Class warfare as an election strategy is going to result in more billionaires, bro

AnandWrites If we can find more resources, more. If not, they better start paying up.

AnandWrites Many more would be great, actually. The billionaires aren't the problem. The system that allows them to not pay their fair share, is.

AnandWrites Capitalism is a pyramid scheme.

AnandWrites Good segment & good points by Anand !!

AnandWrites They’re all gonna say less except Bloomberg. But every single one of them would love to be a billionaire so they can have more power

AnandWrites Who the hell cares as long as everyone is living better. This hyperfocus on vilifying billionaires or wealthy folks is absurd.

AnandWrites I’ll go with more.

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