cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/41925810
Mon 19 Jan 2026 13.00 EST
On Tuesday, she plans to introduce a bill in the House of Representatives urging the US to end the political and economic dominance of billionaire oligarchs, halt the corporate subsidies and tax advantages that fortify their power and reinvest in the American people to defend democracy from authoritarianism.
The legislation is supported by Our Revolution, a political organisation that spun out of the senator Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential run, which is launching a “Defund the Oligarchy” campaign with research showing that individuals and corporations who funded Trump’s election received a staggering return on their investment.
I’m surprised. My semi-maga father-in-law would come up with a bunch of excuses he parrots from fox news.
Like he has a half dozen times.
You can’t be specific. If you say “tax the rich” they will say yes. But as soon as you start listing off billionaires they will back down. They want to tax the rich, they just still think there are good billionaires.