- Feb 21, 2002
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Surprised there isn't a thread on this already. CNN posted two articles today on Tom Perkins. You may remember him as the guy who likened 1% "persecution" to Kristallnacht. Well, he's at it again. Apparently at the event focused on income inequality entitled "The War on the 1%", yes, you read that right, he has said that 1%'er biggest fear is economic extinction due to taxes which he thinks are extremely progressive as they are, and has suggested that the more taxes you pay the more votes you should get.
I'm not going to post the article text, you can read them on cnnmoney:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/14/investing/tom-perkins-vote/index.html?iid=Lead
http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/14/investing/tom-perkins.fortune/index.html?iid=HP_LN
This is so out of touch it's hard to believe this is real. Seriously. What. The. Hell. The guy is advocating for bringing feudal society back. It used to be couple of hundred years ago that you couldn't vote unless you were a free white male 21 years of age and had owned a property. If you were slave, or a woman, or just happened to be a working poor - too bad. Is this really where we want to go back to? The feudal society?
I'm not going to post the article text, you can read them on cnnmoney:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/14/investing/tom-perkins-vote/index.html?iid=Lead
http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/14/investing/tom-perkins.fortune/index.html?iid=HP_LN
This is so out of touch it's hard to believe this is real. Seriously. What. The. Hell. The guy is advocating for bringing feudal society back. It used to be couple of hundred years ago that you couldn't vote unless you were a free white male 21 years of age and had owned a property. If you were slave, or a woman, or just happened to be a working poor - too bad. Is this really where we want to go back to? The feudal society?