Because Felon and his billionaire friends care nothing about 'We the People' & are never satisfied with any amount of money! It's sad that trump was even allowed to run or hold any office! Now, we have to deal with their evil selfishness! It's disgusting!!
Unless the firing is a plan to destroy the US by allowing someone to steal our weapons and use them internally on us and release new strains of viruses on us, with no vaccines to fight it. What better way for Putin to take us out.
... manage air traffic, distribute social security, Medicaid, Medicare, manage national parks and forests, look after water resources and environment. You know why they're doing this right? Chaos, incite violence and call Martial Law so they can rip up the constitution. Voila! Loyal subjects.
Several countries in the 🌎 are getting fed up w their Billionaires& their cronies & taking them to court getting convictions sententencing them as Hazards to the Nation & demanding restitution for ppl
://www.cbsnews.com/news/vietnam-death-sentence-tycoon-truong-my-lan-upheld-unless-pays-9-billion/
Interesting Read her Billionaire Hong Kong Husband bought his way down to 7 yrs plus there's like 40 other Bank ppl etc in on destroying ppls lives & taking their properties assets who also got sentences buying their time down but her she's hidden 💰 assets eventually she'll pay cuz incentive
it’s so bizarre, those dickheads at the Heritage foundation are obsessed with the deficit, but never suggest taxing billionaires and corporations 🤷♂️ it’s almost like they’re the ones who caused the problem.
yeah. and squeezing federal employees for government savings is like squeezing a potato, or searching the cracks of sofas for spare change... wait... i got jd vance excited... he's a piece of shit. just sayin'
Tax the billionaires into millionaires, destroy the billionaires price gouging monopolies, & finally destroy the uber rich ultimate weapon against us- Citizens United. ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿
Knuckle dragging MAGA have always known that Russians/Nazis/dictators were bad guys not because they know politics but because their actions movies & WWE told them so are now flipping because those 'actors' sold out.
Anyone able to illustrate a coloring book explaining that Trump & Putin are bad?
It's not just about billionaires, it's about cruelty. Anti DEI, anti trans, anti gay marriage, women losing their vote of their name has changed....it's white supremacy not taxes. Quid pro quo. I make you even more money while you help me cleanse the world of color
That was what Kamala wanted to do but it seems 70 million people would rather pay more taxes and more for food, housing, and just about everything…idiots!
All because hostages in Gaza were dying and Joe Biden was not only letting it happen, but defending it. Just like what Trump's doing, they're so scared that they're letting it happen, but also defending it despite huge differences.
Remember when people were demanding something about grocery prices and they called her a communist for saying she would do something about the price gouging stores?
Or you could consider guilotining them and repatriating their assets ? I believe that was the French solution,when driven to distraction by evil greed vs utter poverty...
I agree, we shouldn’t have billionaires in the U.S., any overage of a billion dollars will be to pay the national debt and/or medical insurance for the uninsured.
This is about power and money. Trump and Musk will fire as many as they can and then hire them back. It is a game to them but they will frame the rehires as look at the good we are doing for you. Builds loyalty in those rehired, makes them more willing to do as they are told. It's about control.
Just look to Norway, when we increased tax for the rich the fled the country costing the state billions of dollars in taxes instead of the increase the politicians was hoping for.
Tax the rich, pay living wages, Healthcare for all &invest in public &higher education for all would be a win/win. It would reduce the need for public assistance, boost our economy, reduce stress & related mental health problems, reduce crime, provide hope, improve health &open doors for all.
Perhaps if the Democratic Party didn’t continually sideline Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and the rest of our progressive leaders because they need to be “Republican Light,” we wouldn’t be in this mess.
Let billionaires can be even richier while working class even has no clean water at home. That's how capitalism understand freedom and democracy. The right way.
And any who is not to think like that, will be a communist.
I believe that was suggested, planned for, and argued for decades ago and now. Somehow, those initiatives always die in Congress, House and the Senate.
trickle down is essentially correct. taxing human generated wealth creates dead weight loss. you want taxes with negative or neutral dead weight loss such as pigovian taxes or land value taxes respectively.
Trump’s financial backers expect very large tax relief. I believe there is a substantial effort in place to replace government services with private enterprise. It is a for profit plan for the wealthy.
we all die nuked and or infected by the next plague. that's the plan. the billionaires survive in their bunkers and live out their days served by robots. the end.
Most certainly. The golden age of the US economy was roughly 1948-1970. The top marginal tax rates at that time were as high as 91%. Nobody paid that much due to loopholes and deductions. The point is that they paid a lot more in taxes than they do today, which for many is nothing.
The economy was doing just fine. It was actually the strongest in the world and then they handed it to Donald Trump and the Trump effect took place. Everything he touches turns to shit.
I don't disagree that the US economy was doing well relative to many others. But there is no reason for people in low/middle class income brackets to pay more in taxes than billionaires or corps. like Tesla and Amazon. The best economy we had was when it was more of a mixed economy w/higher tax rate
That’s why Trump threatened BRICS 100% tariffs from selling off any USD, which they have been slowly doing. Anything can happen now with international tensions.
Because these are the people that actually pay most of those politicians (allegedly).
And it’s based on net worth, mostly valuation changes, which isn’t part of the tax code at the moment. Doesn’t hit their taxes until they sell a piece of it.
They don’t even have to pay more. Just don’t cut what they are already paying. Keep It the same as the last tax cut they got from Trump. Greedy bastards!
theyve been ripping us off for hundreds of ytears and noiw they want to split the moneyt that was meant to pay us just a tiny bit back for tyhat. Its discusting.Its a sick joke, told by a diseased maniac
This is a crucial difference between liberalism and progressivism. The progressives want to find comon ground and move forward.They arent interested in helping the people who society has destroyed, just in splitting the money, and sucking the poor dry
The elite will kill off most the population once ai automation infrastructure is in place. They'll reclaim the earth for themselves and have a utopia we were supposed to have.
Taxing the rich would solve most everything!!! We could even come into the 21st-century and have universal healthcare instead of being a shit hole country.
GAO 2024, in 2023, half of all corporations paid no income tax.
The effective tax on the rest of them was 9%.
No amount of firing is going to put a dent in the republicans 37 trillion dollar debt load.
Firing all 2 million civil servants would only save the government about $400 billion a year which wouldn’t make a dent in the national debt or deficit not to mention it kills jobs and the economy. We have a taxation problem in this country regarding the wealthy ever since 1980.
We have a spending problem. Just because something is a small expenditure doesn’t eliminate it from being inspected. I cancelled my
$5/month pandora subscription—not because it was expensive but because it was wasteful.
We have a massive corporate welfare problem.
We have a spending problem at the DOD and possibly at the Bush privatized NSA.
We have a healthcare corporate welfare problem.
Had we stuck to the Clinton Newt deal, we would have zero debt.
Clinton enjoyed a unique time in our history. I am not a dem or liberal but I thought Clinton was a pretty good president. He did preside over through sheer luck the buildout of the internet economy by us based companies which gave him opportunity to move into the black budget wise.
I was not a Clinton fan but at least he was not a common criminal, He tried to make the country a better place.
He ran on fiscal responsibility and gets credit for that.
He and Hillary started the Reagan Democrat era which ruined the democratic party such as it was.
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We need to have the rich, especially the billionaires pay their far share. This administration is not for us the citizens of the United States of America. The entire administration must be removed from office, NOW!
No, because this is who America is. America voted for an obese insurrectionist to be President. America voted to reward criminal behavior. Now it has the audacity to say "That's not what I voted for."
I woke up, thinking about just how much money Musk has. Business owners who risk a lot should reap the most benefits but there is no way on earth Musk has ‘earned’ $400B. There is something very wrong with that picture.
Just let the current tax breaks for the oligarch expire, no new breaks, Dems introduce legislation closing loopholes. If the GOP balks hammer that home on every media . Make the Republicans own screwing America to give oligarchs more
if Musk had just paid a little more tax, all the Doge BS wouldn’t have been necessary, and his stock prices wouldn’t have fallen into Trumps Golden toilet
Na. I am pretty confident that Muskrat paying his fair share of taxes would not have made him any less of a dickkk. And it wouldn't have made his cheap ass vehicles any less prone to malfunctions.
well, taxes are economic illiteracy. they don't discriminate between investment versus consumption, and taxes on human generated wealth. create deadweight loss. you want taxes with a negative or neutral dead weight loss such as pagan or land value taxes, moron.
it doesn't matter if they'd still be rich, the point is that you would create deadweight loss. you want to reduce inequality of consumption not investment moron. ideal taxes have negative or neutral deadweight loss, such as pigovian or land value taxes.
FYI, Democracy, Government of the people by the people for the people was conceived and created to protect the capitalist interests. There's only one way to make it work for regular people.
Apparently not even though we would only need to take them around 30ish percent to make income tax a thing of the past as the taxes they pay would more than cover our paltry taxes paid
Given who the Secretary of Health and Human Services is, fighting pandemics is passe. Just let it happen and bury the dead afterwards. Basically the same approach as for school shootings.
You can only charge so much for a product, especially something like housing. If they can't raise their prices enough to cover the taxes then they have to sell and it evens the market out.
Well make a law that landlords cannot raise rent past inflation anymore.
They've been squeezing the average worker for decades so let's just force them to stop.
And inflation numbers are impossible to accurately calculate so the government HUGELY under-reports them. Cost double for families and it’s reported as a 5% increase.
Fixing problems caused by regulation with more regulation is a slippery slope into totalitarianism. Besides your asking the institution who enforces taxation to penalize those it’s in bed with 🤦♂️
Bitch shut the fuck up about totalitarianism you have a fascist oligarchy forming in America as a result of NOT ENOUGH REGULATION on billionaires and what you can and cannot do with ridiculous amounts of money.
“You have authoritarianism forming as a result of NOT ENOUGH AUTHORITARIANISM!”
Let me get this straight. You think that billionaires are in control of our government and if we give them more power to regulate they’ll start regulating themselves?
You are hearing the exact opposite of what I am saying.
No. I say we need to ban billionaires.
Yes I know they are currently in power, but that can be changed.
That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it. They already bleed us dry for all those things. Are you suggesting we just go “please sir, can I have some more?”
The Buffett Rule is the principle that no household making over $1 million annually should pay a smaller share of their income in taxes than middle-class families pay. Warren Buffett stated that he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary..
If billionaires paid more taxes, how would they store up their wealth to secure it from others that might be able to make use of it? Come on, think…these billionaires need to protect these assets from actual use
You are a moron and capitalism is what empowers the United States to make things terrible in places like the Ukraine…I think you would understand that.
For years, many have said they'd be open to this ... the tax code needs to be updated. I've heard people like @reidhoffman.bsky.social and @mcuban.bsky.social noting this. Silly to put so much and many at risk with senseless actions. **sigh**
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Read my profile. I have lost everything. And I had to pay income tax last year. Not fair in anyway shape or form. I didn't intend to get injured but I still worked through the negatives and was successful. Now I'm screwed like so many others. Tax the 1%.
How dear you propose such an outrageous action we must think how this will impact the Billionaires Gilded Age? Those poor people need new privet jets and mega yachts!
That is a sensible, logical, and decent proposal.
So, no.
They don’t care about the math mathing, because it’s not actually about the money. It’s about control, to bring about their sick, twisted, delusional, Christian Transhumanism cult beliefs. It’s more unhinged than most people yet realize.
We really gotta give the billionaires some more tax breaks and additional privileges, and we all should probably start dying in mass because they believe there is way too many of us
Billionaires don’t lose a little bit. They crush big or they lose big. They are good at making the odds work in their favor to limit losses. If you want anything from them at this point you have to take it all.
NO!!!! GODDAMMIT!!!!! DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND, THEY'RE THE JOB CREATORS, THE JOBS JUST HAPPEN TO NOT BE WHERE THE WORKERS (CONSUMERS) AREN'T LIVING. STRANGE, AND TO THINK OUR PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS VOTED TO PAY COMPANIES TO TAKE AWAY THE JOBS.
If Elon etc. were as magnanimous as they purport to be they could voluntarily pay a little more of their treasure and save thousands of jobs. Go slower and move more judiciously.
FiNC isn’t waiting—we’re upgrading democracy by rewriting the rules. Digital Politics shifts power from donors to voters, creating a system where politicians answer to the people.
By breaking establishment barriers, we’re making democracy work for everyone.
That makes sense but it just ain't gonna' happen with a selfish billionaire stinking up our White House, surrounded by oligarchs like Elon Musk as well as other millionaires and billionaires.We'll get no support from a Republican dominated fat cat Congress either!
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://www.cbsnews.com/news/vietnam-death-sentence-tycoon-truong-my-lan-upheld-unless-pays-9-billion/
Tax corporations 50%(FDR). That'll fix the budget. They'll scream like babies.
Anyone able to illustrate a coloring book explaining that Trump & Putin are bad?
They are billionaires because they benefited from billions in subsidies! Even the richest of them got 38 billion from the US!
What do you think this is 1996!
The purpose of the Fed Gov is oppressing us all and causing chaos. Get with the times 🤦♀️
Let billionaires can be even richier while working class even has no clean water at home. That's how capitalism understand freedom and democracy. The right way.
And any who is not to think like that, will be a communist.
Stay calm. Keep fighting.
Micro actions snowball & avalanche.
50501 nationwide protest #3 on March 4.
Continue economic blackout of fascist collaborators indefinitely.
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It led to more hoarding of wealth.
I can’t wait until we outgrow capitalism. Then we can truly have Utopia Now.
Even the GOP economists who coined the term never actually believed it, FFS!
They confessed decades later…they just didn’t want to admit that they were greedy as fuck…& didn’t give a damn about anyone but themselves!
REPUBLICANS👏🏻ARE👏🏻BAD👏🏻PEOPLE!👏🏻
He's firing everyone to have full access to load Grok into all our systems and control all of it with his tech.
Having everything held hostage by him will be neat.
Roughly $500B per year.
A 20% tax on those those additions for those 800 people would be $100B per year.
And they would STILL be $2.4T richer.
800 people.
And it’s based on net worth, mostly valuation changes, which isn’t part of the tax code at the moment. Doesn’t hit their taxes until they sell a piece of it.
That's how fascism works.
The effective tax on the rest of them was 9%.
No amount of firing is going to put a dent in the republicans 37 trillion dollar debt load.
$5/month pandora subscription—not because it was expensive but because it was wasteful.
We have a spending problem at the DOD and possibly at the Bush privatized NSA.
We have a healthcare corporate welfare problem.
Had we stuck to the Clinton Newt deal, we would have zero debt.
He ran on fiscal responsibility and gets credit for that.
He and Hillary started the Reagan Democrat era which ruined the democratic party such as it was.
We need to protect capitalism by supporting our superwealthy so they can suck our blood and deprive us of peace.
How dare you want to have a peaceful and meaningful life.
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they aren't being taxed ENOUGH!
It's better to be poor together
than selfishly successful
They have no empathy. Just greed and power.
Of course, that's why some of our deep pocket donors took advantage of one bad night to push him out.
Trumplicans want America Great Again … cool raise tax rate for 1% back to 1950’s, when middle class was growing = 90%
Doctors make good $…
…but NOWHERE NEAR Bezos/Zuckerberg/Musk!
Billionaires MUST be taxed out of existence…
…& ALL of that $ MUST be spent directly improving the lives of all Americans…or we won’t survive!
#MedicareForAll
#ClimateCrisis
#UBI
#TaxTheRich
#WealthTax
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together”
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Trump wants to SELL American citizenship to the highest bidder and expects those billionaires will pay their taxes…
WHY?!?!?
HE DOESN’T!!!
#FuckMusk
#FuckBezos
#FuckZuck
States can arrest them, just which governor has the spine?
@govpritzker.illinois.gov ?
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social ?
Or we can just watch this BS of TROs with no enforcement or wait for SCOTUS to kick the can.
History proves that this solves the budget dilemma (except for the extravagant spending of a certain prez).
Not rocket science—no algorithm needed.
E can retire. 😬
They've been squeezing the average worker for decades so let's just force them to stop.
Let me get this straight. You think that billionaires are in control of our government and if we give them more power to regulate they’ll start regulating themselves?
No. I say we need to ban billionaires.
Yes I know they are currently in power, but that can be changed.
Remember;
The Buffett Rule is the principle that no household making over $1 million annually should pay a smaller share of their income in taxes than middle-class families pay. Warren Buffett stated that he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary..
For example, if Evil Musk decides, he can switch off Starlink in a minute. Even though he got 37 billion government funding to build it all.
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So, no.
They don’t care about the math mathing, because it’s not actually about the money. It’s about control, to bring about their sick, twisted, delusional, Christian Transhumanism cult beliefs. It’s more unhinged than most people yet realize.
his value is in his power and ability to influence weak, fearful, and unifnformed people.
FiNC isn’t waiting—we’re upgrading democracy by rewriting the rules. Digital Politics shifts power from donors to voters, creating a system where politicians answer to the people.
By breaking establishment barriers, we’re making democracy work for everyone.
In other words, we're fucked1
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