Howard Schultz would rather you not refer to billionaires as billionaires, please
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Campaign Action Starbucks billionaire Howard Schultz seems determined to torture us all with his own odd parody of our current American political condition. We can only hope that it will not last, and that once each of the consultants involved has cashed a fHoward Schultz would rather you not refer to billionaires as billionaires, please
Campaign Action Starbucks billionaire Howard Schultz seems determined to torture us all with his own odd parody of our current American political condition. We can only hope that it will not last, and that once each of the consultants involved has cashed a few checks they will each duck out and attach themselves to some campaign not quite as likely to end in public humiliation. But for now, Schultz continues to play the part of the Monopoly Man come to life to warn us that all this talk of taxes on billionaires is getting out of hand. If the choice before America is stark racism and corruption or taxing Howard Schultz at the same rate a man of his wealth would have been taxed back when the first Star Wars movie was released, Howard Schultz will condemn both sides and start his own political movement, thank you very much. We have nobody to blame but ourselves and our addiction to sub-par coffee. The latest episode of Astonishingly Out Of Touch Theater came when CNBC host Andrew Ross Sorkin asked Schultz, during an interview, if he agreed with the premise that «billionaires have too much power» in American public life. Schultz took polite exception to the premise in the most Rich White Guy way a man possibly could: Must we call them «billionaires»? The moniker 'billionaire' now has become the catchphrase. I would rephrase that and say that 'people of means' have been able to leverage their wealth and their interests in ways that are unfair, and I think that speaks to the inequality. But it also directly speaks to the special interests that are paid for people of wealth, and corporations who are looking for influence, and they have such unbelievable influence on the politicians who are steeped in the ideology of both parties. Aside from the odd objection to calling billionaires billionaires, preferring instead the dodging unspecificities of people of means, the rest is so generic it could be squeezed from a tube. Schultz went on to emphasize that he, on the other hand, was "not in bed with any special interest,” despite a protocampaign devoted, so far, entirely to himself as his own special interest. He is quite literally in bed with the special interest group consisting of himself and his alarm at Democratic politicians muttering about tamping down on the great American greed-fest by undoing a few of his own tax breaks; he shares a pillow and a set of sheets with that uniquely narrow special interest. It has been, so far, the only component of his campaign. Read more
