Fox News: "Bilionaires should pay their fair share"
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this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2024
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On top of everything else, he had months to prepare for this eventuality.
Wouldn't the greatest businessman of his generation know that it takes time to raise that kind of money?
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In response, billionaires should get together and donate a few billion dollars to public defenders, pay off people's medical debt, and offer to buy Mar-a-Lago in order to turn it into public housing.
Al Lago is a chintzy motel with a shitty omelette bar. estimated value of less than 5% of the ruling. He's going to have to sell his bedbug infested resorts and ugly golf courses too
All his properties are inflated values, thats the Russian money laundering scheme at work.
Why doesn't trump, a "billionaire", pay his own damn bond? You just said Blbillionaires can afford it.
Even if this guy wasn’t trying to weasel out of paying a cent, there is some validity to the argument that money in commercial real estate is not particularly liquid.
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I’m sure there are still a few Russian oligarchs who have enough liquid assets to bail trump out, in return for some massive political favors once they help him con enough rubes into electing him again.
The problem is that Trump didn't do enough for them when he was in power and they don't think he could win again. To the oligarchs, Trump is a lost cause. Trash that they don't even have to clean up themselves.
I'm just waiting for the 24th when it's revealed that MBS is buying a $50 million property from Trump for $550 million thus solving all Trump's problems. It's not like that sort of thing is completely unheard of for Trump. This is just a larger scale.
I think it'd be best it Tailor Swift gives him a loan.
She's far too good a businesswoman to do a pants-crapping insane thing like that
Why cant he just pull up his bootstraps and get a job?
Why doesn’t he just pick himself up by his bootstraps and get the 450 million going, lazybones
Didn't he already turn a small $1million loan into a billion dollar empire. Surely, he could turn whatever he has now into the small amount of $450 million
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tHaTs SOciAlISm!
Hahahaha
"Perhaps a billionaire could imagine throwing away half a billion dollars, but even they tend to want to be paid back. Trump could sell buildings, but commercial real estate is in a slump, so it's not a good time for him to do that.
Elon Musk loves setting money on fire apparently, so it is actually surprising he's not bailing trump out...
Even musk must know a bad business proposition Paying that bond will pit you directly in the cross hairs of various agencies
Yeah...
The same agencies that forced him to buy Twitter and trump will attack if he gets power.
Musk is 100% dumb enough to foot the bill thinking if trump wins he gets it back, and gets more free reign to do what he wants without government interference.
If he had the money, I legit wouldn't be surprised if he put up some money.
Like, you can't rule out Musk or trump doing something because its irrational. Most of what they do is irrational
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