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.
Tax them?
Prohibit them
I want a world wide hard cap on personal wealth. Nobody should have more than 10 million in personal net worth. Helo, even a million might be on the high side, but cap it somewhere there.
Anything over that, 100% to taxes
You don’t have to change away from capitalism, it’s fine, it works well to generate loads of wealth and as long as there are hard caps, nobody will get crazy rich, governments will get loads in income for free healthcare, free education, hell, even universal basic income
Point is: nobody should be either crazy wealthy or crazy powerful.
Having said that, add powerto that list too. Nobody should be able to be president, too much power. Nobody should be able to singlehandedly declare or start a war just because he’s a pedophile and needs a distraction. Nobody should be able to just overrule judges and liberate their cronies for money
And after all that don’t think the US is off the hook. It needs a complete overhaul, politically, justice systems, and so on, and I’d say, split up into the 50 states it has, but now each state being an independent country. (Same for Russia and China, btw)