Doc67 wrote: ↑Tue May 04, 2021 8:37 am

xandreu wrote: ↑Tue May 04, 2021 7:08 am A quick Google search tells me he's worth $124 billion. I realise that your worth is not simply money in the bank and I'm aware of his charity work but you don't have to be a socialist to find it difficult to justify how such eye-watering wealth can be attributed to one individual.

Oh yes you do!

What would the socialists want? Anything above $10 Million to be given to the state? $100 Million? A $Billion?

Pick any number and the moment it is enacted there will be those who promise to reduce it and give more to 'the poor' and send the bill to someone else, if you vote for them.

It is exactly the same as the minimum wage. It is a perfect political tool, the government gives out pay rises in the private sector and sends the bill the wealth creators, but when it comes to the government picking up the bill for any similar largesse, they give the NHS 1%.

Kung-fu Hillbilly wrote: ↑Tue May 04, 2021 12:02 pm Nobody should get married until they're over forty or fifty years of age I reckon as most don't have much of an idea about anything until then - whether it be about themselves, the world, otters or anything.

DaveG wrote: ↑Tue May 04, 2021 1:12 pm Single with 70 billion in ya sky rocket...
What would you do

Doc67 wrote: ↑Tue May 04, 2021 1:02 pm

Kung-fu Hillbilly wrote: ↑Tue May 04, 2021 12:02 pm Nobody should get married until they're over forty or fifty years of age I reckon as most don't have much of an idea about anything until then - whether it be about themselves, the world, otters or anything.

If you had to wait until then, the marriage rate would plummet - people would realise what a terrible construct it is.

Marriages should have a sunset clause, maybe 5 years, whereupon either side can walk away without any further liability. If both want to renew then throw a vow-renewal party. This money-for-life racket, alimony etc., is not worth the risk (unless she is loaded, in which case it's a brilliant reason to marry her)