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- neverscared3
Oxfam predicts first trillionaire within a decade
- we did it .. .a trillionaire... hip hip hurray..neverscared
- If there's a gofundme I can donate a bit of money to help them get there, post the link.PhanLo
- Trillion is the new billion.NBQ00
- Yes but someone will be employed to bleach their sheriff's badge, so it's a good thing.MrT
- PhanLo10
- Come on Mark. Give us some of your money so we don't have to fix things.robthelad
- Why don't the 650K+ Americans build their own app and become filthy rich, Bernie?NBQ00
- Let's be clear. Zuckerberg didn't build Facebook singlehandedly did he? Bezos didn't do Amazon all by himself.SlashPeckham
- I was being sarcasticNBQ00
- rob wasn’tmonospaced
- Well why didn’t you do anything about it Bernienb
- Of course Bernie but what do propose to do about it, The forced redistribution of wealth? Retrospective taxation?
It's all posturing and virtue signalling...Morning_star - ...all mouth, no trousers.Morning_star
- Even if Zuckerberg had built Facebook single-handed, all his wealth comes from exploiting others.i_monk
- 95% for the 1% .. even that woul be to less... https://wwd.com/wp-c…neverscared
- BASED ON THEIR WEALTH GROWTH, 26 TOP BILLIONAIRES PAID AN AVERAGE INCOME TAX RATE OF JUST 4.8% OVER 6 RECENT YEARSneverscared
- https://americansfor…neverscared
- i guess its gonna trickle down.... not into his fresh designed bunker though...neverscared
- On December 22, 2017, President Donald Trump signed into law the so-called Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), a $1.9 trillion tax bill favoring corporations and wealneverscared
- thy Americans.....neverscared
- biden should invert it... i guess not.neverscared
- What solution do you propose?Morning_star
- Yeah but how else can people with micropenises get laid on this world?_niko
- guys is it gay to fix things with money?doesnotexist
- how many jobs did the $100 million create? Architects, handymen, landscapers, dozens of third party contractors, etchotroddy
- Bernie wants Zuck to send the money to bureaucracies so they can distribute 'more effectively'. Worked so well with the homeless, and highspeed railhotroddy
- Captain America to The Rescueutopian
- Here come the nazis to complain about rich peopleHayoth
- hotroddy that is a false equivalency.doesnotexist
- How? Fucking tax the cunt properly.
It worked 60 years ago.Nairn - How much? Who? Where's the threshold? Is it retrospective? Does this tax regulation exist in all states? In all countries? Is it just personal or business too?Morning_star
- Is it on earnings, dividends, existing stock, income, growth.
My point is that the wealthy are subject to all the same tax laws as everyone else. If they're...Morning_star - ...rinsed in the US they'll move to the UK or the Camen Islands or Switzerland. The benefit to the US of having Zuck, Bezos etc base themselves in the US far..Morning_star
- ...outweighs the negative impact if the fucked off to another country and took their business with them.Morning_star
- I don't understand the obsession of some to defend these sociopaths... They are not your friends and they don't give a shit about you!OBBTKN
- I'd imagine that 99.9999% of this planet doesn't give a shit. You think Bernie cares? I don't understand the shallow bleating fucks that point at a problem andMorning_star
- ...offer no practical solution. Virtue signalling cretins.Morning_star
- I feel you're just being contrarian.
*shrug*Nairn - it's not a false equivalency. the moment you grow the gov't is the moment you're doomed.hotroddy
- How so? Since we are playing devil's advocate, tell me. You mean we should cut our defense spending? Agreed, smaller govt, it's fucking ridiculous.formed
- Or because healthcare is so great private? And please spare us the regurgitated 'people will have to wait in line' lies.formed
- Or maybe education? 'Cause private colleges are clearly helping and affordable. No?formed
- Or maybe infrastructure is something we should cut back? 'Cause it's so great now, right?formed
- You cut 'govt' and it simply goes to the same people as 'private' with ridiculous price tags. But hey, that's 'less govt', right? *YAWN*formed
- It's always gone on. These cunts make money disseminating cunty truths so everyone stays angry on their cunty platforms and generates more money.MrT
- But someone was employed to fit each one of Zuck's 85 toilets in his new panic room, so everything's fine!MrT
- PhanLo9
- Who would stick around if they were stood up??formed
- Are there no restaurants under socialism or does everyone eat from a communal pig trough?hotroddy
- yespango
- Captain America to the Rescue.utopian
- "I may be a restaurant, but the only reservation I want tonight is in your heart."kingsteven
- I sleep well at night knowing hotroddy is such an awful piece of human shit he has no chance of reproducing and will die alone like a fucking loser.monospaced
- And that level of absolute stupidity will not reenter the gene pool.monospaced
- I was too thinkin about u I hope you bought your kids a Christmas tree. Navigating life with a deranged father must be challenging enough for your poor kids.hotroddy
- still better than hotknobby who might just sacrifice his kids for the economy. like pinochet.pango
- I imagine it's better to be the hero of stupid than the hero of incompetence
hotdoddyneverscared - Yes I bought a Christmas tree and we covered it in lights and the kids loved it. We had a fire and hot chocolate too. So derangedmonospaced
- How is your takeaway from this 'durr, no restaurants in socialism???'?i_monk
- then what is it? there are no dating apps in socialism? or people don't get scammed in socialism? durr, which is it?hotroddy
- oh I get it, the shallow misconception that once socialism is implemented it will miraculously eradicate greed from society. LOLZhotroddy
- does it hurt you to be this stuoid? like, do you get a headache trying to think and then you just shit blurt out “socialism” like some retard?monospaced
- I mean, we get you’re so low on the ranks of human beings you have no concept of dating, but I’m really trying to wrap my head around how you’re so cluelessmonospaced
- mono one day we'll have a substantial argument but so far your exchanges have revolved around accusations of stupidity, racism, etc.hotroddy
- i know it can be challenging to apply the same critical thinking skills you skillfully apply for religion (sarcasm) ..hotroddy
- It seems that the American educational system has failed youhotroddy
- lol, wowmonospaced
- do you really think you’re being a critical thinker here? Omg that’s hilarious , but what do I know, I only have one advanced degree from a top university.monospaced
- You still need to explain what you even mean before you can start talking about educations. So far you’re the one who looks like the dimwit.monospaced
- then instead of having one of your classic temper tantrums, you should realize the absurdity of blaming capitalism on this chick.hotroddy
- lol hotknobby. the great defender of capitalism.pango
- it was a joke until Mono got offended and started spewing his trademark psychotic rants.hotroddy
- It's just a prank, bro.palimpsest
- There’s no way this story is truenb
- @nb - of course not, but just look at the 'interaction', so it clearly 'worked'.formed
- "I'm not stood up. Just no one is joining me for dinner tonight. I'll have the ice cream."robthelad
- PhanLo3
Sacklers to pay $6 billion to settle Purdue opioid lawsuits
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https://www.reuters.com/business…
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- who gets that cash? surely not the homeless that Oxy put them there in the first placeYakuZoku
- my nephew was a crane operator, hurt his back then they gave him Oxy, 1 year later he was jobless, homeless and on HeroinYakuZoku
- to this day hes still in and out of prison and rehabYakuZoku
- They should execute the entire Sackler familyPhanLo
- That's heavy what happened to your nephew. An old mate who was a stonemason was the same. Backpain at work led to opiods and job loss.PhanLo
- Yankee Doodle Dandy!utopian
- I’d vote in favor of execution for the Sacklers. Make an example of themnb
- Same with an aunt of my wife. She hurt her back, they gave her oxi, one of the side effects is back pain so the cycle was endless. She was dead within 2 years._niko
- I think execution is too good for them, they been to be water-boarded for a day for each life they ruined._niko
- It's refreshing to see that too much power does have its limits. But yeah, all that money should go back into the community to help those most fucked by OxyIanbolton
- Getting those kind of painkillers here in Portugal is almost impossible, only when you're in the hospitaldmay
- neverscared3
- just kiddin ...neverscared
- His investors are certainly going to get the message. These antics are making me consider selling my Tesla stock....formed
- PhanLo3
- have you seen what they do with tampons?sarahfailin
- capitalism can't challenge the notion that individuals should expect shit for freehotroddy
- PhanLo5
- Paul and many others have no clue about taxes or how money works apparently...grafician
- <Yeh? well Alan Partridge is shit ;)Morning_star
- A million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years.akiersky
- Whoa @ math.ideaist
- The tax money still just goes to pay for war.BabySnakes
- That's how you stay rich bro. Fight for every dollarplash
- utopian0
General Motors and Ford Paid Average Combined Tax Rate of Just 1 Percent on $42B in Profits.
Meanwhile In 2021
• GM CEO Mary Barra made over $29 million
• Ford CEO James Farley made almost $23 million
• Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares made about $21 millionOn top of the $652 million in executive salaries, GM and Ford paid the members of their corporate board of directors $51
million over those five years...corporate board members as a whole work an average of 248 hours annually - meaning the total 27 board members of the two firms were each compensated at roughly $1,860 per hour in 2022 alone.
- utopian3
Elon Musk just requested $100 million from the US government
The automaker has requested $100 million from the United States government to build nine charging stations for the Semis, according to CleanTechnica and Bloomberg. The stations will be strategically positioned between Northern California and the southern border of Texas. Each station would feature up to eight individual 750-kilowatt chargers, which means eight Semis could charge simultaneously at each of the nine stations.
- shame on him for trying to reduce transport costshotroddy
- Corporate welfare beggar...American capitalism at its finest!utopian
- I realize that grasping how this can benefit you might be a significant cognitive shift, and it seems more convenient for you to simply echo "corporate welfare.hotroddy
- Will they be run powered by diesel generators like his Central California one?instrmntl
- https://www.sfgate.c…instrmntl
- @hotnobby - so trucks (owned by companies and presumably sold by Tesla) carrying goods (sold by companies) should have their operating costs reducedBuddhaHat
- by having their charging networks built using taxpayer dollars? Tesla also paid a $0 in fed corporate income tax in 2021. All so Tesla sells more trucks?BuddhaHat
- Just Your Typical Everyday
American Crony Capitalismutopian - pure commie vibes... he likely starts building his glas house 42 in austin with it...neverscared
- he may be reducing surface level trans costs, but he's pulling more power than the current infrastructure can handle. so, he's really not reducing costs.doesnotexist
- Yes Buddha, if the current isn't helping keep fuel costs down, the least it should is try to subsidize alternate forms of transportation.hotroddy
- and it should look to private enterprise to do it bc Cali's bureaucratic corruption railroad costing $200 million per mile ain't gonna cut ithotroddy
- *current gov'thotroddy
- Elon Musk: "socialism for me, but not for thee"BuddhaHat
- utopian6
Many of today's unhealthy foods were brought to you by Big Tobacco.
For decades, tobacco companies hooked people on cigarettes by making their products more addictive. Now, a new study suggests that tobacco companies may have used a similar strategy to hook people on processed foods.
In the 1980s, tobacco giants Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds acquired the major food companies Kraft, General Foods and Nabisco, allowing tobacco firms to dominate America's food supply and reap billions in sales from popular brands such as Oreo cookies, Kraft Macaroni & Cheese and Lunchables.
- we really try to stay away from any processed fooddoesnotexist
- imbecile1
- ROIutopian
- hire more IRS agents.hotroddy
- they work for the banks/finance already. much better pay.uan
- stop taxing regular peopledoesnotexist
- OBBTKN2
Property developer and CEO Tim Gurner: "We need to see unemployment rise. Unemployment has to jump 40, 50 percent in my view. We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around."
- pablo281
"In the United States, Amazon has opened its own supermarket chain to supplant its business rivals Walmart and Target and capture the American groceries market. In China, Alibaba and JD.com are investing in various areas of the food supply chain. They’re opening their own poultry, fruit and vegetable farms, and replacing human labor with AI-controlled machines. What impact is this kind of commercial revolution having on working conditions, food quality and the future of our planet? Featuring rare documents and witness statements, the documentary takes a look behind the scenes of these temples to consumerism."
- The monopolies will keep growing...until they are stopped.formed
- Education. We need more education. AND, USA needs to stop insulation - we need to travel outside the borders more - we need to understand the global economy...canoe
- is not the only economy. How does this happen - by education and travel - to see first-hand people survive without Walmart. We did at one point. Thanks Obama!canoe
