Don’t worry, they’d still be doing just fine.
That’s not to say the uber wealthy wouldn’t get torched by Elizabeth Warren’s tax plan, but even if her proposal were in place for decades, the fortunes of men like Amazon’s AMZN, +0.08% Jeff Bezos and Microsoft MSFT, +0.51% founder Bill Gates would still be intact, according to TaxJusticeNow.org, a website founded by UC Berkeley economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman.
Gates drew laughs last week when he jokingly told a conference in New York that he’s “starting to do a little math” to figure out what he would have left over if he were to get hit with a $100-billion tax. Well, good news, Bill, it wouldn’t be nearly that much if these numbers are any indication. No wonder billionaires like Leon Cooperman have tears in their eyes. Oh, and Warren has something for that, too:
Meanwhile, billionaires like former Goldman Sachs GS, +0.05% Chairman Lloyd Blankfein, continue to feud with Warren in the public arena:
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