Also, frankly, even if the Trump family was as wealthy as Trump claims. Or had as much physical cash as Elon has assets / investments. It would be a drop in the bucket.
Nations operate on scales that are orders of magnitude larger than any privately owned wealth. That’s kind of the point. This would be like levying a $1000 fine for a billion dollars in damages and expecting it to “be fixed”.
I’m actually willing to believe that between all the bribes and scams they probably do have a lot of money now, but it’s also going to be hidden in places that would be very hard to track down or impossible to retrieve (Russian Banks etc)
This isn’t true, there are a few “old money” families that control international business. Morgan. Rothschild. Rockefeller. They have been acquiring wealth for centuries on a staggering scale. I’m reading about their manipulation of world war one now, it’s disheartening.
None of them can compete with the Catholic church yet, but they’re working on it.
There are absolutely people / families with a lot of influence and power. But if you seized the personal assets of one of them you’d have enough money for maybe one Aircraft Carrier. Much less everything else the US does or the amount of damage Trump has done to the US economy / infrastructure / reputation.
Jail them, regulate them, and for God’s sake tax them. But seizing, at most, a few billion in assets from one group of individuals is nothing when the US military alone spends about a trillion a year.
Also, frankly, even if the Trump family was as wealthy as Trump claims. Or had as much physical cash as Elon has assets / investments. It would be a drop in the bucket.
Nations operate on scales that are orders of magnitude larger than any privately owned wealth. That’s kind of the point. This would be like levying a $1000 fine for a billion dollars in damages and expecting it to “be fixed”.
I’m actually willing to believe that between all the bribes and scams they probably do have a lot of money now, but it’s also going to be hidden in places that would be very hard to track down or impossible to retrieve (Russian Banks etc)
This isn’t true, there are a few “old money” families that control international business. Morgan. Rothschild. Rockefeller. They have been acquiring wealth for centuries on a staggering scale. I’m reading about their manipulation of world war one now, it’s disheartening.
None of them can compete with the Catholic church yet, but they’re working on it.
There are absolutely people / families with a lot of influence and power. But if you seized the personal assets of one of them you’d have enough money for maybe one Aircraft Carrier. Much less everything else the US does or the amount of damage Trump has done to the US economy / infrastructure / reputation.
Jail them, regulate them, and for God’s sake tax them. But seizing, at most, a few billion in assets from one group of individuals is nothing when the US military alone spends about a trillion a year.