But hey, don’t take it from liberal class-warrior me that we ought to tax the rich. Take it from the ultrarich Oscar Mayer weiner heir Chuck Collins:
Chuck Collins figures he won life’s lottery by inheriting vast sums of money through his great-grandfather Oscar Mayer’s processed meat company, but rather than fight to protect every dime Collins has helped push to hike taxes on the ultrarich like himself.
He was successful in helping implement a higher tax in Massachusetts on income over $1 million….
“I think people are waking up to the harms of these inequalities,” said Collins, a founding member of the group Patriotic Millionaires, which calls for higher taxes on the country’s super affluent. “Including people who have wealth, who say, if we keep going down this road, it ain’t going to end well for anybody.”
…Massachusetts is often brought up in the debate over the effectiveness of millionaire taxes. Voters passed the Fair Share Amendment in 2022, which added a 4% surtax on income over $1 million; the threshold has risen annually for inflation. To date, the amendment has collected $6 billion for education and transportation, according to the state’s Executive Office for Administration and Finance.
“It’s good for everybody, in a time of grotesque inequality, for wealthy people to chip in a little bit more,” said Collins, Oscar Mayer’s great-grandson. “Especially at a time when others are just struggling to keep up” [Kimberlee Kruesi, Geoff Mulvihill, and Cedar Attanasio, “Some States Are Reviving a Push to Tax the Rich,” AP, 2026.03.11].
Even some of the rich will tell you: tax the rich!
The people who bought the eight acres or so behind us are Pepsi heirs or at least she is. Apparently they have property like it in Hawaii and Pennsylvania too, perhaps elsewhere.
They have had people building on the property for six years. Many buildings a large pool and who knows what else. The original house on the property was large and three years old when they tore it down to rebuild it.
At times there have been over thirty people working. The backup noise is tiring.
The workers are sworn to secrecy. Alot of it looks like preper elite.
Money to burn. I keep telling myself they are employing many people.
One day while we were gone they had a crew come on to our property and dig out all the tortoises we had on our small hill that runs the length of our property. I can’t mow it anymore. A couple came back so I already told the workers to stay the f off.. There used to be an alley too. Amazing what money can do.
I was told I should sue them but I’m not interested in trying to sue billionaires.
It would be nice to at least tax them more but this is the free state of Florida.for the wealthy.
It is a good example of gross inequality. Why they chose this property to enact their weirdness, who knows. We did make them stop working before eight. Yeah!
Maybe they’ll change the zoning to turn it into a hotel or something similar. Who knows. Its also totally walled in, a big wall too.