In a kleptocracy, corrupt politicians [or unelected CEOs like fElon Musk] enrich themselves secretly outside the rule of law, through kickbacks, bribes, and special favors from lobbyists and corporations, or they simply direct state funds to themselves and their associates. (Wikipedia)
Notice no outcry from Jamie Dimon and other heads of financial industries…. They are hearing the ‘ca ching ca ching’ of their coffers at the expense of consumers, retirees and manufacturers. Buy low is their mantra.
AND THE POOR ELECTED🍊. History has taught us nothing.Pit the poor whites against minorities and foreigners. THAT IS WHAT GOT US HERE. THEN THE WEALTHY PROFIT FROM THAT BIGOTRY.
Indicative of the real welfare queens and terrorists you need to worry about, not someone from another country. They're right in your backyard, running multi-billion dollar corporations, and holding office.
Your oppression is their profession.
The complaints from those who usually support Trump's policies ring hollow.
Whatever they're saying to Trump, let me translate it for you here:
"We're happy with the distribution of wealth in the country the way it is...if you push it too far, the poor might actually do something to change it 😬"
Rump blabbering about groceries to his “shallow end of gene pool base” who continue to lap it up with a spoon are in for a surprise. In the back rooms he is stabbing them in back. Fasten your seatbelts MAGAts It’s going to be a rocky road.
Tarrifs on penguins and LITERALLY THE ENTIRE WORLD except Vladimir Putin the degenerate war criminal and Russia. TRAITOROUS BASTARD DonOLD j RUMP is clearly UNFIT and woefully inadequet working for Russian interests. Disgusting
MAGA; Make America Gilded Again……Trump’s dog whistle for billionaires who understand history and why Trump eradicated the Education Department. The buck 🛑 there.
People are losing money in their 401K’s that took them years to build and what about people who are already retired, this will be devastating in so many ways.
How much more will it take for GOP Congress to impeach cultists?
hundreds of felonies that warrant action; 18 USC
acts are NOT covered by feckless scotus granting of immunity
Musk will soon eliminate Congress & Courts –
has no use for them in tyrant kingdom
Since the last Trump tax cuts, when he eliminated almost all my deductions as a Sole Proprietor, I just wrote a check for $5700 to the Feds. He can suck it.
Do you think Musk and Bezos have a different mind set? I think they are just as bad or worse than the Robber Barons, who at least at some point gave something to society.
USA. 21st century Robin Hood in reverse.
Trump and his Mafia cronies are stealing from the poor to give 💰 to already obscenely wealthy, massively greedy billionaires who, between them, are deliberately destroying the lives of virtually everyone else, everywhere. Loathesome, soulless bxxtards.
Ford Motor Company will offer employee pricing to all US shoppers: "For the next couple of months, we're going to offer our customers the same deal that our employees get... that's worth thousands of dollars."
While I agree, he's also trimming their taxes by diminishing their worth, killing their businesses, and crushing them with these tariffs as well. Let's face it, the more you had, the more you lost this week - I'm back to 2022 & retired with no recovery room so others tax rates are little concern now
Are Liar Racist Felon Criminal Dictator Trump, CEOs and US Companies in USA going raise their minimum wages and pay more to their employee's making things in USA, to US people can buy things make in USA???
And the next question is, will these import taxes be paid into an "External Wealth Fund" instead of the IRS and be more accessible to Trump and Musk? There may be a scam on top of the tariff scam.
I do agree that Trump thinks these monies from the foreign countries go into some sort of pot that he'll have access to ("we'll have so much money"). What he doesn't realize is that it has to pass through U.S. consumer's hands before it does.
The tariff is paid by the importer as the goods come into the country. But yes, as price goes up, quantity sold goes down, so that expected tariffs will be based on this lesser q of goods sold.
Thanks for clarification. Consumers will be paying for the tariff indirectly, e.g. it won't be going directly into the Department of Treasury "pot" as it's paid by the importer as the goods enter the country.
rogue elements are now running the country, with no one to stop them.
it’s only a matter of time before a colossal failure or a major act of terrorism exposes the incompetence of this so-called government. Whatever happens, it will undoubtedly go down in history as a catastrophic moment!
I wish instead of using “wealthy vs. poor” language, we phrased it as “wealthy vs. non-wealthy”. As soon as you use the word “poor”, middle class people tune out. You say “non-wealthy”, that captures their attention.
Don't worry people. Sure, we will see a major 5-year depression. You might lose everything. But after that, you will have a chance to work in a coal factory or metal recycling plant. And you won't have any of those pesky union fees either. That's true freedom right there brother!
If Trump is going to ultimately abolish income tax, why would he care about tax cuts? The game he’s playing is much larger. Putin has led him to believe he can take it all. He will confiscate revenue generating companies/industries, governmental lands & funds. Elon will just shut off the computers.
No shit. And we’ve been screaming about this for 10 years. I’m not even going to say “better late than never” bc fuck cnbc, cnn, msnbc, and all the others that helped elect this maniacal moron. This is on them as much as it is the morons that voted for him or didn’t vote. 🤬
Nobody panic! The world is 'trusting the US President'. So beautiful. Knows what he's doing. Knows that tariffs aren't import taxes. The world (except Russia)will pay. The US will be rich +. His Ph.D in Global Economics is kicking in. Did you know Trump can add 2+2 & make 9? Genius. Millions say so
They've shot themselves in both feet with this grand stunt. No one will trust their cryptos now. How could they? Crypto money-changers at Treasury, Wall Street? You really want that? Talk about manipulation on whims and favoritism. Wall Street, your influence around the world dies with the dollar.
Just another Trump scam. To all the hard-working people who voted for him, do you understand now that he was not making America great again for you? The rich getting richer…
This is a tax cut for the rich paid for buy the poor. This is a regressive tax. Poor people buy cheaper goods (China) which are a larger % of their income.
It’s the billionaires/corporate greed that moved US manufacturing to countries where labour and parts are cheaper.
Trump wants us to pay the billionaires to reverse 50years of progress to bring manufacturing back??
US labour can’t compete! = more job loss!
The rich get richer! - we get fucked!
Perhaps the end goal is to drive US labour rates down so low in order for US to compete globally……….that’ll be the other shoe to drop. Certainly the value Trump puts on eduction supports this theory. Kicking out immigrants has already prompted some states to consider child labour, 3rd world status!
It’s a game for Billionaires! they can gobble up resources at much cheaper prices now. Why do you think COVID happened & during Trumpy’s term? Why do you think Elon poured Billions into Elections to get Trump Elected? Why did 911 happen? Israel wants Gaza for Trump properties. Look at the end game.
Are they finally waking up? They helped Trump win because they didn't want a black or woman to be President. Hopefully they can change the conversation by doing their jobs.
Hardly. They are a regressive tax - but business owners? Takin it on the chin. Either absorbing the increases or losing business with no choice but to raise prices.
Tax cuts for the wealthy are always going to screw the working class and the poor people. We have a corrupt and unjust economic/tax system here in the U.S. And, of course, a corrupt and rigged political system which overwhelmingly favors the wealthy. It is shameful and disgraceful. 🤬
As a capitalist economist we won’t be able to afford the military if not everyone pays their share and the economy will shrink if millions of human beings can’t afford to buy stuff. The former destroyed the Byzantine Empire and the latter the Athenian Empire. 😃
And as everyday Americans dump their stocks, the top 1% will slide in and buy cheap to make billions when Donny pulls the tariffs and the market recovers.
The GOP-Musk-Trump tribe is a law-breaking, constitution-violating gang of tyrants guilty of brutalizing behavior against the American people & democracies worldwide. They have completely abandoned humanity! Their only goal is staggering self-wealth & authoritarian power. Guillotine the bastards!
FIXED: These are tax cuts for the wealthy piled on the national debt with interest paid to the wealthy by ordinary tax payers for decades to come, and to be paid off by a generation yet unborn when they become taxpayers.
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Loopholes up the wazoo
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/project-2025s-tax-plan-would-raise-taxes-on-the-middle-class-and-cut-taxes-for-the-wealthy/
Listen to Gov. Pritzker. This is SO important...
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BemC1yDGj/
Soon to be followed by depression.
The time for action was the last election.
#RIPUSA
#rUsSiA
I've been trying to communicate exactly this since 2024 and never came up w anything that well stated
A PLAN.
To bring America & Americans to their knees,
to BREAK us by destroying our economic security, food security, and SOCIAL SECURITY.
FUKKK ALL OF THEM.
America BELONGS TO US.
#StrongerTogether
#RaiseYourVoice
Your oppression is their profession.
The dead-letter-literal-interpretation of the Bible,
white nationalists, evangelical Christian fundamentalists
elected the Antichrist
that they have been warning about
for years,
their lord and savior Donald Trump.
The Christian fundamentalists
elected the anti-Christ President.
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It’s just a method of taxing Americans so Trump can fill his coffers - for whatever reason he deems useful.
CNBC is actually talking about poor people?
trump has a plan too. And it's crazy. It says something about his plan that he did not put tariffs on
Russia
North Korea
Cuba
Belarus
everyone suffers from tariffs at this scale
Whatever they're saying to Trump, let me translate it for you here:
"We're happy with the distribution of wealth in the country the way it is...if you push it too far, the poor might actually do something to change it 😬"
The coup must end!
hundreds of felonies that warrant action; 18 USC
acts are NOT covered by feckless scotus granting of immunity
Musk will soon eliminate Congress & Courts –
has no use for them in tyrant kingdom
He’s said his favorite decade is the 1890’s.
Robber Barons fits the current moment better tho
Trump and his Mafia cronies are stealing from the poor to give 💰 to already obscenely wealthy, massively greedy billionaires who, between them, are deliberately destroying the lives of virtually everyone else, everywhere. Loathesome, soulless bxxtards.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JBq-2FdXpeNjva2h0T72q2NLKkRi2fTo/view?usp=drivesdk
It’s quite literally a consumers tax. It’s pretty simple
🤬🤬🤬🤬
it’s only a matter of time before a colossal failure or a major act of terrorism exposes the incompetence of this so-called government. Whatever happens, it will undoubtedly go down in history as a catastrophic moment!
This is stabbing ourselves in the ass repeatedly.
April 5th we’ll be showing the nation,
Our disgust with this administration.
Mark your calendar. Make a sign.
Time to be loud in a protest line!
https://handsoff2025.com
He even imposed a tariff of 10 % on an uninhabited island group called the McDonald Islands.
Trump imposed tariffs on King Penguins!
The idiocy of it all has no boundaries...
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2025/04/03/economists-question-how-tariffs-were-calculated-by-trump-administration.html
Trump wants us to pay the billionaires to reverse 50years of progress to bring manufacturing back??
US labour can’t compete! = more job loss!
The rich get richer! - we get fucked!
Make America Oligarchs. Only.
The tariffs will be revoked by tomorrow afternoon.
It's the chaos it causes that they want. Not the actual tariffs.
They are allowing this.
Demand they stop it.
While they still can.
https://5calls.org
The price of all imports just went up 10% so all US product's prices will rise to a competitive level.
🤑"70% tax takes all income!"
False—it only applies to income over $10 million a year.
🤑"Taxing rich is radical!"
70% of Americans support it.
🤑"Wealth tax is unconstitutional!"
Nonsense—we already tax homes via property taxes.
#TaxTheRich #Resist #BoycottAmazon
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#kleptocracy
Promise you will vote straight BLUE ticket, with purposeful selections of only dems at every level, from Clerk of Court, to Sheriff, to Dog catcher!