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any Dem that supports these cuts for the rich must be primaried!

Mike Pence's Group Launches $10 Million Campaign To Pressure Lawmakers On Retaining Tax Cuts For Wealthy

https://www.joemygod.com/2024/06/mike-pences-group-launches-10-million-campaign-to-pressure-lawmakers-on-retaining-tax-cuts-for-wealthy/

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Wealth of Elon Musk
2012: $2,000,000,000
2024: $211,300,000,000

Wealth of Jeff Bezos
2012: $18,400,000,000
2024: $204,900,000,000

Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg
2012: $17,500,000,000
2024: $178,400,000,000

Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2024: $7.25

Three words: tax the rich.

mvario ,
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@Strandjunker

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Entertaining my darker fantasies.

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50 billionaire families have already poured $600M+ into this year's elections — mostly in support of Trump.

That's only 0.6% of their total wealth. It essentially costs them nothing to drown our democracy in dark money.

kristen_d ,
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@rbreich Yet the fucking Nazi piece of shit will not get win the popular vote because he isn't a populist, he's a moron Putin-fellater and moneylaunderer for the mob. A useful tool. Sometimes money loses and when it does it's lovely.

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Things that are not the problem:

"Inflation"
Unions
Minimum wage
Immigrants
Government spending
Social Services and Welfare
Homeless people
Gay people
Carbon Tax
Bike lanes
Mass transit
Trans healthcare
Women's healthcare
Genderqueer people
Indigenous land rights
Urban greenscaping
Public education
Public healthcare
Public libraries
Vaccines

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kristen_d ,
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@GottaLaff to my ears.

randahl , (edited ) to random
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I remember when the Tesla brand was synonymous with innovation.

Now, it is synonymous with casting doubt on the legitimacy of the US justice system in front of your 181 million followers.

Buy another car.

(The following is posted in a thread about Trump being on trial in New York in the hush money case:)

kristen_d ,
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@randahl is the and is the symbol of scumbag

jeffowski , to random
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The gap between what corporations pay in taxes and to their executives Among 35 profitable corporations that paid executives more than they paid in federal income taxes, these 10 companies paid their top executives the most. Five year totals, 2018-2022. Tesla: Profits $4.4B, Taxes -$1million, $2.5B in executive pay. T-Mobile US: Profits $17.9, Taxes -$80m, $675m in executive pay. Netflix: Profits $15.1B, Taxes $236m, $652m in executive pay. Salesforce: Profits $6B, Taxes $175m, $508 in executive pay. AIG: Profits $7.7B, Taxes $385m, $406m in executive pay. Ford Motor: Profit $7.7B, Taxes $121m, $355m in executive pay. NextEra Energy: Profit $24B, Taxes $287m, $325m in executive pay. MetLife: Profit $11.7B, Taxes $96m, $240 in executive pay. Match Group: Profit $2B, Taxes $10m, $229m in executive pay. Sempra Energy: Profit $5.2B, Taxes $6m, $228m in executive pay. Guardian graphic. Source: Americans for Tax Fairness analysis of Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy and SEC data. Note: 'Profits' are domestic, pre-tax.
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    TEN YEAR OLD MEME:

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    Jessica Ellis @ @baddestmam... - 9h I keep hearing about how we shouldn’t tax billionaires because it might limit their philanthropy. They aren’t being taxed right now. Where the fuck is Zuckerberg? Where the fuck is Bezos? Where the fuck are the Walton fam? Where the fuck is Musk? Where the fuck is Bloomberg? Jessica Ellis @ @baddestmam... - 9h You should not be allowed to have the resources to save the world if when the world needs saving you are not going to use those resources to save it.
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    Boeing's outgoing CEO could get "golden parachute" worth as much as $45 million.

    The CEO before him got one worth $62 million on his way out the door in 2019.

    America has socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for everyone else.

    leswarden ,
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    @rbreich Weren’t we all raised and also raising our kids with the mindset of ‘don’t reward bad behavior’? I guess that filters down but doesn’t filter upwards.

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    We have collapsed bridges because we won’t tax billionaires

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    “…on March 18, 2024, the country (USA) has 737 billionaires with a combined wealth of $5.529 trillion, an 87.6 percent increase of $2.58 trillion, according to Institute for Policy Studies calculations of Forbes Real Time Billionaire Data.”

    https://www.juancole.com/2024/03/billionaire-wealth-percent.html

    jeffowski , to random
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    #ReligionIsPoison #NoBillionaires

    elexus jionde @Lexual__ Stop associating wealth and prosperity with goodness, God, and blessings. These people are not highly favored or blessed, they are privileged. When you think the rich are rich because they’re good, it becomes easier to claim the poor are poor because they're undeserving
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    Source @rbreich
    From September, 2011

    The Great Prosperity: 1947-79 Pay Rose With Productivity... Wages and overall compensation for production and non-supervisory workers (now about 82 percent of the private sector work force), tracked steadily upward alongside gains in productivity. The rising value of goods and services per worker meant rising pay. But that relationship ended in the 1970s. Productivity change 1947-79: +119% Hourly Compensation change: +100% Average hourly wage: +72% The Great Regression: 1980-Now ...And then it didn't Productivity change 1980-2009: +80% Hourly Compensation change: +8% Average hourly wage: +7% Source: Robert Reich, New York Times, September 4, 2011
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    #ReligionIsPoison #NoBillionaires

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