Those who get wealth by lying set for themselves a deadly trap...because the wicked ones refuse to do what is just, their violence boomerangs and destroys them.
Proverbs 21.6-7
That is precisely the angle of attack that must be made.
In the UK the Tories are the ones loudly decrying a class war at every opportunity while they take away the NHS, schools, benefits we've paid for. Making themselves richer while screwing us.
William Buffet still seems to have his head on somewhat straight. How he made his $$ in the first place is suspect, but he's pledged to give 90% of his wealth away. How, exactly he's doing that, I don't know, but at least he hasn't caught the "greed flu." Others are suffering from terminal cases.
...which is exactly what socialist have been saying for a long time ("our policies aren't radical, they're just human"), but I promise you that the establishment dems are going to fight you over that message. Seems leftists are the only people dems are willing to fight...
I've been watching on youtube a guy named Gary Stevenson and his focus is primarily on Income Inequality. Don't know how accurate he is but it's worth a watch.
The weird Nazi billionaire is losing billions per day on Tesla so everyone needs to keep up the pushback. Let's drive that company into the ground. Sorry for the people who bought one before they knew how much of a dick he is.
And exactly what’s wrong about being a socialist anyway? A great big hunk of the wealth these bastards are hoarding belongs to all of us because it was our society that made their wealthy accumulation possible. This is class war they have declared. Don’t shrink from it. Take it to them.
🍬 100 = a handful of candy
🚛 1 million = a truck full of candy
⛰️🚛🚛🚛 1 billion = a mountain of candy trucks!
Making this into a bumper sticker for my car because a visual might help people understand how massive the gap is between a million and a billion. Not enough people get it.
This list makes it clear how much trouble we are in. All the top Oligarchs in Felon47s pocket. All are benefitting from the destruction of our republic and the checks on rampant capitalism.
We did it to ourselves. How many on the list provide consumer goods instead of services? Those in the service industry take care of us and are crapped on my the rudest of us. They make the least. Quit buying their products. Upcycle. Wealth in stocks is fluid. Up can be down very quickly.
It would remain a functional country for the billionaires too! They lose nothing in the way of even a measurable change in their quality of life. We're suffering by choice for literally no good reason.
Yes but also the socialists, communists, and Marxists are totally right about this and the people on that list are gonna spend more money than you can ever dream of pinning those labels on your ass whether you like it or not.
It makes you a sane, rational person with at least a minimal ability to do math. It's not an ethical or humanitarian matter to say "I think we should get out of the way of this rolling boulder before it crushes us." It's grounded in practicality.
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Great idea, but most of these vendors use Amazon fulfillment and it goes through them anyway. Amazon is becoming an Octoput with invisible tenticals everywhere.
Do you know that $100 million is really NOT that much considering building a good quality high rise apartment cost at least $100mill; a very good movie cost over $100mill? I hate MUSK, but there R very rich people like Bill Gates who uses his money 4 humanitarian causes. Musk is rich by corruption
As a young man, I espoused what I termed ‘benevolent capitalism’. I naively thought when most people became wealthy enough they would turn to leaving a legacy of bettering the world but even the “best” of them are fucking psychopaths. Eliminate the rich.
Sad part, even if we went back to Reagan's tax cut rate for the wealthy (28%), the top 10 of those guys alone would generate over $583B in revenue. That of course assume they are all American, but you get the picture. Tax the whole list & budget deficit solved. I'll bet they wouldn't even feel it.
It makes sense that business- making all its profits using US infrastructure while some pay employees a poverty wage,
should pay more than me in taxes.
Tax cuts for the people benefitting the most screws the poor and creates the destitute class.
It’s not just unfair, it’s amoral and unpatriotic.
I would love to believe that, but if she was married to a Koch…or if she was born a Koch and has 62 billion dollars, according to the list, then I have to conclude she is not doing any of that. I hope I’m wrong.
When it finally becomes the people against the billionaires, we will see the progress needed in this democracy. Unfortunately, if they gain control before that happens, it will be near impossible. That is what the billionaires are trying to do now.
Change begins in a moment of crisis. Trump, to stay out of prison, climbed over the backs of mostly lower/middle income white people who felt they had lost a world which never really existed, but in which they felt secure. They were sold snake oil for a misdiagnosed illness. Now they may change.
iBush/Trump added 10.7 trillion in tax cuts then spent an UNBUDGETED 14.5 trillion on Afghanistan/ Iraq/ COVID - 25.2 TRILLION of our 35 Trillion Debt..
Tax Cuts Are Primarily Responsible for the Increasing Debt Ratio
Our forefathers from both parties expected that wealthy & corps to pay their fair share of our debt - yet the GOP since Reagan has given them the 50% tax cuts that have allowed the wealth inequality to become worse..
Check what their taxes were before 1981
And check what the wealthiest corporations were expected to contribute before 1981 compared
the 21% they pay now after tax deductions ( soon to be 15%)🤦♀️
I wasn’t that aware until I read in a comment that a lady said she and her husband’s taxes increased- and researching the data easy to see what they have been up to…😡
Yes - and got even worse after the Bush/ Trump cuts.. Let’s not forget Clinton left a balanced budget and then Bush started cutting again… When Clinton cut he provided programs to make sure that those cut had training to get the skills they needed to provide for themselves- not the GOP way…😡
Oh neat are we starting a leftwing 3%ers? Can we use the arabic 3 rather than the r9man III? I think it will make things easier than just presuming the gravy seal looking folks are with the right?
437,500 TO 1…….The ratio of American citizens to American billionaires. Tread carefully billionaires…tread very carefully. Because you now have our attention..and not in a good way.
You can only actually want to do anything about it if you are a socialist or communist or anarchist because the system of capitalism itself is the problem. Until workers own their workplace and operate them democratically there is no way this gets fixed in a real and permanent way.
(2) we need to abolish the election funding bill which makes politicians and wealth be bound. New election funding bill to be gov funding (at least 50%) + individual funding (up to 10K per person). This will disconnect money and politics. After this bill, everything that people desire will happen
Billionaire Tax is inevitable.
But the priority is we got to do the election in 2026, not through machine but hand-count like old school ballot count with zooming to everybody can see one ballot to ballot.
This will get you no election rig to begin with. With right people, (1)
These are the people behind the Heritage Foundation, the Christian Nationalists, Citizens United, on and on and on. They are the people systematically stripping away our Civil Rights and freedoms. Time to take back our country - our planet!! 🌎
If they were SATISFIED with what they had and shared in the welfare of their countries, it would be different. The TOP TEN BILLIONAIRES in the US, want the bottom income 90% to pay TAXES FOR EVERYONE, including themselves. Greed is why TRUMP was elected. Love of only money is evil
If you think this level of inequality is a bad thing, you should learn what socialism, communism, and Marxism actually mean. The ideas you've been taught to fear by decades of anti-communist propaganda are not bad at all, and in fact they make a lot of sense.
Russia sure does. Australia does. UK does to a lesser but growing extent. These people are so rich that they have the capability of destabilizing the globe and its economy. Musk is doing that right now.
Just pointing out that they are not only an expanding threat but one that has no borders.
this absolute knob went on and on and on today about marxism and radical feminist destroying nuclear families and argued that and poor people just always scamming the system as a reason why we MUST stop providing government assisted programs with funding. total weirdo geared up at pinning the middle
class against each other and the poor. all the while rich people are the ultimate scammers and he knows that good and well the moment we start all caring for each other that will he abundantly clear. but go off queen! it totally matters what bathroom people use to take a shit!!
They have more money than they will ever be able to spend and they want more! They want to take from us to pay for their tax cuts, does anyone in their right mind think this is ok?
The world needs to decide that the wealthiest person on earth should never “own” more than 1000x the poorest person. Human abilities do not vary by more than a 1000-fold, and human moral worth is equal. Excess wealth should be removed from the wealthiest for the public good.
The combined market value of all listed companies in the world is about USD 100 trillion. Institutional investors, pension funds, insurers, etc. hold 41%. 14% is held by the public sector, pensions and sovereign wealth funds.This compares with the total wealth of all billionaires of USD 14 trillion.
The cold, hard truth of the matter is that regardless of whether you realize or admit it - you're a participant in the class war. A war that an overwhelmingly vast number of Americans are currently losing because we're too busy fighting each other over comparably meaningless issues.
Today’s social media crisis? Networks falling all over themselves to discuss Gene Hackman’s life.
One mention of his classically trained pianist wife, Betsy Arakawa.
Same as the couple’s dead dog.
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"its their money, they earned it"
Okay starve, i guess, the rest of us with spines are gonna figure out how to fix this
Proverbs 21.6-7
In the UK the Tories are the ones loudly decrying a class war at every opportunity while they take away the NHS, schools, benefits we've paid for. Making themselves richer while screwing us.
And sadly this Labour govt are little different.
But they’re content in their greed.
There's more, we need them
That's the list to add to the #boycott
🚛 1 million = a truck full of candy
⛰️🚛🚛🚛 1 billion = a mountain of candy trucks!
Making this into a bumper sticker for my car because a visual might help people understand how massive the gap is between a million and a billion. Not enough people get it.
“From each according to their ability, to each according to his needs”
Hey, what about My needs? They are the same as those in 1%!! 😡
I’m thinking there’s likely another tier above this that we are never told about.
No needs 1 million a year either,
No one needs that much money.
Capitalism and democracy are not compatible.
Capitalism and the future of life on this planet are not compatible.
So we need to get comfortable with naming some other systems to switch to, before capitalism ends us.
I just think it's pretty evident that them paying even fairly nominal amounts would clear the deficit.
should pay more than me in taxes.
Tax cuts for the people benefitting the most screws the poor and creates the destitute class.
It’s not just unfair, it’s amoral and unpatriotic.
A 2% annual tax on the net worth of households and trusts between $50 million and $1 billion
A 1% annual surtax (3% tax overall) on the net worth of households and trusts above $1 billion
They said it would net $3T over 10 years.
How do they sleep ?
This would generate about $39 TRILLION in revenue. Bye bye debt, hello surplus.
That still leaves about $37,000,000,000 for the 1% to divide up or go all Hunger Games or something
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Tax Cuts Are Primarily Responsible for the Increasing Debt Ratio
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/tax-cuts-are-primarily-responsible-for-the-increasing-debt-ratio/
Check what their taxes were before 1981
https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/expert-insights/whole-ball-of-tax-historical-income-tax-rates
the 21% they pay now after tax deductions ( soon to be 15%)🤦♀️
https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/historical-corporate-tax-rates-brackets/
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Tax they paid (y-axis)
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each year (x axis)
& show how much percentage has been tax.
And average of workers %
My request? At this table, add one column to insert the chart showing tax amount(y-axis) they paid Vs. each year (x axis)
and then percentage.
But the priority is we got to do the election in 2026, not through machine but hand-count like old school ballot count with zooming to everybody can see one ballot to ballot.
This will get you no election rig to begin with. With right people, (1)
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The patriarchal oligarchy exists, peeps.
Just pointing out that they are not only an expanding threat but one that has no borders.
It's so revolting
We actually work for a living so it’s not like it would be hard or anything.
Unite!
Win!
No one needs to use X or buy a Tesla
No one needs Amazon, Whole Foods or the Washington Post No one needs Facebook, Instagram or Threads
Maybe we should be devoting less time to the opioid crises & more time to the social media crises
One mention of his classically trained pianist wife, Betsy Arakawa.
Same as the couple’s dead dog.
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