This article originally appeared at ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1423169
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1423169
Greedy fuckers, aren’t they?
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This is not mere greed, it is lust and his boot on the face of a society that permitted him.
“When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” – Frederic Bastiat
ETA it should be added that Griffin is a type, an example of a rather specific kind of stupidity in which a nominally bright, very successful person not only despises the social infrastructure that made his success possible but seeks to deflect or alter it in ways that simultaneously increases inequality while ultimately threatening the wealth of those like him who depend on (but rarely acknowledge) a strong state fully able and willing to acknowledge and enforce things like contracts and private property including all associated rights.
“Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” – Arundhati Roy
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Weird that it’s ALWAYS “the worst possible time” to raise taxes on billionaires. /s
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Cheap bastards. Unwilling to pay a few million more on incomes in the hundreds of millions or billions.
Aux barricades!
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Hasn’t a desperate mob of homeless families eaten this guy yet?
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Because he would rather pay tens of millions for security than a few million in taxes?
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The neighboring state of Missouri has a slightly higher highest tax rate of 5.4%.
I love this article. It sheds light on one of the billionaires who benefits most from Citzens United and who has decided his personal wealth is more important than the safety and well being of his felllow citizens.
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I am all for free enterprise but this is just fucking grotesque in the extreme. How many fucking billions does a person need? The sheer greed and arrogance illustrates just how fucking immoral these clowns are.
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I think his spokecritter’s line about chicago devolving into anarchy means that people don’t bow down to him fast enough on the rare occasions he appears in public.
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By then, Griffin had made a big announcement that meant his state tax bill would plummet.
In a letter to Citadel employees, Griffin announced that he was moving the company’s headquarters to Miami and that he himself had already moved his family to the area.
He successfully defeated a proposal that would have raised his taxes, yet he still left the state.
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Yet even though he defeated the tax measure, thereby fucking over the state, he then announced he is leaving Illinois.
Well done voters.
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He is upset that he has to share the streets with peasants in cars and buses.
(The streets should be empty or at least the peasants should bow as he passes)
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He flushed $50 million down the loo when he tried to buy Richard Irvin the governor’s gig.
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“Ken left Illinois for a simple reason: the state is devolving into anarchy. Senseless violence is now part of daily life in Chicago.”
Griffin’s letter to Citadel staff also made no mention of taxes as being a reason for the move. Instead, it rhapsodized about how Miami “embodies the American Dream
from the google machine:
Based on FBI crime data, Miami is not one of the safest communities in America. Relative to Florida, Miami has a crime rate that is higher than 86% of the state’s cities and towns of all sizes.
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Investment guy might be lying? I am shocked. Not.
But Miami will be underwater. Sooner than later.
Guaranteed.
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I was fortunate enough to be in the Loire valley last week. As I toured beautiful castles one word repeatedly came to mind - pitchforks.
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Our divisions never seem to make it to oligarchs versus the common people.
Put another way…how do 1% out-vote 99%?
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At this rate it’s coming within a generation or so…
Regarding the so-called divisions…the 1% have an agenda. The rest of us are divided by well-worn talking points which seem to conveniently play out by specific voting blocs. It’s really an elegant way for a quite small number of people to co-opt the vast majority of people who are in danger of losing the essence of the Social Contract roughly laid out decades ago.
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