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It's Poor People, Not Billionaires, Causing All the Problems

The whining about billionaires is a distraction from who is really victimizing us

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Frank J. Fleming
May 13, 2026
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So a bunch of people are always whining about billionaires.

“Billionaires shouldn’t exist!” these people shout, but I wonder why in the world people even care about billionaires. No billionaire has ever done anything to me. I don’t even know any. If it weren’t for all the whining about them, I wouldn’t even know they were around.

But you know who does cause problems that directly affect me? It’s the billionaire’s dark opposite: the poor person.

Poor people suck. They commit crime. They ruin neighborhoods. They smell weird. And not only all that, they cost us a ton of money. 60% of the federal budget now goes to entitlements, and that’s mainly to pay for poor people1 — whom I don’t even like!

So, poor people are terrible and the government is constantly taking money out of my pocket to keep these terrible people around? What?! So why is anyone worrying about billionaires — people who pay a lot of those taxes but also give us cool things like being able to order anything to my door overnight and magic space rockets?

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