A Bit to Read

It’s sunny today. Sunny, sunny, sunny and if there are clouds in the sky I can’t spot a one.

As we watch the economy tumble like a complicated design of dominoes, someone shared a post from someone else that said, in essence, that donald et al. have done more to end millionaires than the left ever did.

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I chuckled, remarked that it was true, but it had me thinking about it, it was somehow…off.

And then I realized what it was.

We, and when I say “we” I mean Democrats, not “The Left,” that amorphous group with the bones of a horshoe.

We never tried to “end” millionaires or even billionaires.

We never had any intention of it. Not the faintest, tiniest, smallest bit.

All we wanted was for them to pay their fair share in taxes.

That’s it.

And it is difficult to understand the scale of the money they have, but lets go simple. When you have $100, 1% of your net worth is $1. At that scale, every dollar counts. And yet, it is just a dollar.

If you have a million dollars, 1% is $10,000.

But if you have even a single billion dollars, 1% of that is $10 million.

At the scale of $100, you will notice your single dollar.

At the scale of a million, your life probably won’t change that much minus that $10,000.

And when you’re at a billion? Ten million dollars is like one dollar to you.

They throw the big numbers around to make themselves victims, but the reality is they never would have noticed the taxes. It wouldn’t affect their lifestyles or what they could buy or where they could go or what they could have.

We were not asking for them to change.

But because they acted like requiring them to pick up their own tab was an attack on their existence, somehow we are left with the narrative that that was the goal.

It never was.

But that doesn’t matter now, a whole bunch of very rich people and corporations who voted for this because they were incensed at the idea of paying their part are finding out now that maybe it would have been better to pay an amount of money they’d never even notice than to lose most of it.

To lose their trade agreements.

To lose their customer base.

To learn that their feet are not gold, but clay, and they, too, can come tumbling from their economic pedestals.

It’s little comfort, I know.

But it’s some comfort.

That the hole they dug to bury their money.

Has another hole on the other side.

Have a great Tuesday.