Here's the truth about tax cuts for the rich.
They explode the federal debt, fuel giant profits at the biggest firms and financial institutions, and stoke a surge in billionaire wealth but do nothing for average working people.
Nothing trickles down.
Notice how essentially nobody in Washington asks “if we can afford” an $886 billion defense budget?
No, we only hear that when we need health care, or student debt relief, or climate action, or paid family leave, or universal pre-K, or child-poverty relief.
Let me get this straight: teachers can only write off $300 in out-of-pocket expenses for school supplies, but “three-martini” business lunches are fully tax deductible for corporations. Hello?
365-to-1: The CEO-worker pay ratio at Stellantis
362-to-1: The CEO-worker pay ratio at GM
281-to-1: The CEO-worker pay ratio at Ford
The Big Three CEOs keep pretending they can't afford to pay workers fairly while they themselves are raking in millions off of workers' labor.
Here are five things that ruined air travel (and the rest of our economy). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTzaMXXelew
I refuse to tolerate a system that lets the 500 richest people add $852 billion to their wealth in the past six months alone, but doesn’t raise the $7.25 federal minimum wage for over a decade.
Stop asking: Do Starbucks workers really need to unionize?
Start asking:
-Does Starbucks’ new CEO really need a pay package worth $28 million+?
-Does he really need to be paid 800x Starbucks workers?
BREAKING: A grand jury of Georgia citizens has reportedly indicted Trump on charges including racketeering and conspiracy for his alleged efforts to overturn the election results in that state.
This is his 4th indictment. He already faces 78 felony charges in 3 other cases.
No elected official has ever been accused of anything remotely on the scale of what Donald Trump has been charged with.
His prosecution isn’t a “witch hunt.” It’s a defense of our democracy.
Don’t believe his lies.
With the stroke of their pens, six unelected Supreme Court justices blocked student debt relief, ended affirmative action, and made it easier to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people
What happened to the belief that the Supreme Court had no role in legislating?
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.
For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
Just a random reminder that we desperately need to overturn Citizens United and get big money out of politics.
Nurses went on strike.
Then graduate students.
Then school teachers.
Now it’s hotel employees, writers, and actors.
UPS drivers and auto workers may be next.
Many strikes, similar story:
Workers are sick and tired of billionaires and corporations hoarding wealth and power.
Let’s be clear: If we allow a former president to completely avoid accountability for inciting an insurrection against the U.S. government, we will be inviting it to happen all over again.
Prosecute Donald Trump.
From banning abortion to criminalizing gender-affirming care for trans youth, the Republican agenda centers on taking AWAY freedom. Know the truth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPzlR_mGQIM
News flash: If you outlaw abortions, stop people from voting, ban discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity in classrooms, and criminalize providing gender affirming care for trans youth, you don’t get to call yourself the party of "limited government."
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In 2021:
Endeavor’s CEO raked in $308.2 million.
Discovery’s CEO raked in $248.6 million.
Disney’s CEO raked in $32.5 million.
Comcast’s CEO raked in $33 million.
Meanwhile, pay for writers has fallen by 23% over the last decade.
Corporate greed is out of control.
Over three-quarters of Americans believe that mass shootings are preventable.
62% support a nationwide ban on AR-15s.
This issue is not as divisive the gun lobby wants you to believe.
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Just another reminder that trickle down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.
Researchers estimate that if the top 1% of Americans paid the full amount of taxes they owed, it would raise $175 billion a year.
That’s just UNPAID taxes. Not new or higher taxes.
This is the real looting in America.