‘We Have to Protect Our Geniuses’: Reflections on President Trump’s 2024 Victory Speech

by Martin HoossPolitics & LibertyNov 14, 2024

Over the course of the past decades, Democrats have become increasingly vocal in demanding that rich people (be forced to) redistribute their wealth. According to them, millionaires and billionaires have the duty to help the poor by ‘paying their fair share.’ In a 2019 interview, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for instance, claimed that “people are going to have to start paying their fair share in taxes.” According to her Green New Deal proposals, anyone who has a net worth of at least US$10 million should be taxed at an extraordinarily high rate. As Ocasio-Cortez explains in the same interview. . .

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