He has suggested that “it might be good to raise income taxes on the poor so they had ‘skin in the game,’ and that proposals to repeal the carried-interest tax loophole – from which he personally benefits – were akin to the German invasion of Poland.” Other examples from Surowiecki: “the venture capitalist Tom Perkins and Kenneth Langone, the co-founder of Home Depot, both compared populist attacks on the wealthy to the Nazis’ attacks on the Jews.”
施瓦茨曼的表现好像“他饱受凡是都要插手、见税眼开的政府和带着嫉妒聒噪不停的大众的困扰”。他建议“或许应该提高穷人的所得税，让他们有‘切肤之痛’，还把取消他本人受益其中的利息税漏洞比作德国入侵波兰。”另一个索罗维基的例子：“风险资本家汤姆·珀金斯（Tom Perkins）和家得宝（Home Depot）联合创始人肯尼斯·兰根（Kenneth Langone）都把对富人的民粹主义抨击比作纳粹迫害犹太人。”