To the Moon 🌚

So Richard Branson, who is worth $5.3 billion dollars got $220 million in a handout so he can help send other rich welfare kings to space.

It’s the kind of story that makes my skin crawl. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and other billionaires also take handouts that are generously given by taxpayers who can’t even afford to eat three good meals a day.

There was another report that explained that billionaires buy sports teams for the tax write-offs.

Tax fraud?

Who cares!

They’re rich!!

I have this discussion all the time. It’s the one thing that angers me most of all on social media.

Men and women who struggle to pay their bills take pot shots at the people they believe are beneath them on the social ladder.

They bash people who take food stamps or are on disability. Many of those people who they look down their nose on may have crippling medical bills, or sick family members.

This country is filled with the working poor. People who work 70-80 hours a week and still can’t manage to stay above water.

Billionaires shouldn’t be able to get tax breaks.

It’s that simple!

No grants, no tax loopholes, no bilking the taxpayers.

“They create jobs!” One guy argued with me on a site. “They should get every tax break.”

“Wages are too low,” I countered. “They’re making billions more on your back-breaking work.”

“So are the people sitting on their couch!!” He countered.

“Granted,” I said. “But those people sitting on a couch aren’t stealing $220 million. A rich dude gets a grant for $100 million. He spends $90 million on a project. He pockets $10 million in free money.”

“He’s creating jobs!”

He couldn’t quite see it.

“Okay,” I tried. “If you were able to get $100 million of free money from the taxpayers and you only spend $90 million on your job-creating project, and you don’t pay any taxes, aren’t you just stealing $10 million?”

“That’s how business works!” He said. “God Bless him!”

“No, no, no! He’s stealing!”

It’s on a grand scale that some of the regular, working dudes just can’t understand, but if a man making $25,000 a year, working 60 hours a week in a degrading job gets $400 in food stamps…

…he’s a leach, right?

A man can steal a lot more taxpayer money in a suit than he can in sweatpants.

And it saddens me.

Branson is worth $5.3 billion.

He didn’t need to get taxpayer money out of the poorest state in the country - New Mexico - to fund his little hobby.

$220 million.

It’s pocket change for him.

Taxpayer money in the millions going into the pockets of men whose pockets are so full that they have to send it to out of the country banks so they don’t have to pay U.S. taxes on it.

Those are the welfare kings.

The people with zero money aren’t causing the money problems.

I hope all the billionaires go to the moon.

One way trip.