Mark Cuban was confident he wouldn’t be recognized in Boston Common. This was early June, and it happened to be the day of the Boston Dyke March, billed as an “anti-capitalist intersectional gender liberation” event. Earlier that day, outside of his hotel, people had bum-rushed the billionaire, angling for an autograph or selfie. Basketball fans on the street lit up at the sight of him—the minority owner of the Dallas Mavericks.
Do you think that billionaires should be taxed more than they are now? Not on unearned income or on capital gains. The majority of Americans support a wealth tax on the very rich. It’s one of the few things that people are aligned on. If there’s a net-worth tax there would be no Cost Plus Drugs, because I wouldn’t know what my tax is next year. Could you pay your taxes either way? You shared a tweet in April that showed you owed $275,900,000 in taxes this year. I couldn’t.