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Funny way to say "$10 B illegally stolen from citizens will be ignored".
At a certain point, you have to ask why there's no enforcement on making the government piss away money fighting these pointless fights. If you're willing to try to outspend the government to not pay fines, maybe you should just have everything you own taken by the fucking state forcefully and redistributed whether you like it or not. Obviously people need a chance to fight against government overreach, but this is 31 years later. I would consider 15 years to be more than enough time to fight it, and if you keep fighting it, fuck you, the gloves come off. It's painfully obviously just a way to keep our government pissing away money in court for years, and I think that kind of behavior should be deeply punished.
Why are we always using kid gloves for these rich fucking pricks?
"If we raise taxes, they'll leave for another country and take their wealth with them."
You know you can just lock up their wealth, freeze their assets, and make their asses go to another country fucking penniless, right? Does the government forget that it can, you know, do shit like that? They can run away to a different country if they want, but they can't take all the wealth they generated off US citizens backs with them.
"but then people won't want to invest in America"
Yeah, horrible, exploitative people who are only looking to make a buck won't want to, and fuck them anyway. We don't fucking want or need that kind of trash here.
"If we raise taxes, they'll leave for another country and take their wealth with them."
This is such a cop-out. Like, oh no, they'll go steal from the working poor somewhere else. Whatever will we do without them? 🙄
Further, if they're so brilliant, won't they just be able to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps and make another quick billion? If what they bring to companies really is so valuable that they're paid like Gods of Olympus, then those valuable skills they bring should be able to build them back up almost instantly.