@Sherifazuhur The name of the game is Disruption. Not just the uberriche US Elite, ALL THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC ELITE profit from systemic disruptions, and the 'west playing a dangerous game in the middle east' is just that kind of systemic disruption they profit from.
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About 125,000 notices will be sent to high-income earners, including 25,000 people with income more than $1 million, the tax agency said. Maybe we should eat the rich before the price per pound exceeds that of ground beef.
Just came to this quote in “A People’s History of the United States” and thought it worth sharing — even though May Day is almost over.
“If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists.”
“We need to know who is going to stand up with us! And this choice is clear. Joe Biden bet on the American worker, while Donald Trump blamed the American worker”
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain
Although this clip is a few months old the sentiment is still true
If you truly are moral, if you truly care about the American worker then you must vote Joe Biden
@flexghost wasn't it Joe biden that told the rail workers they had to deal with it and
get back to work or else? The truth is he's pro-business, #antiunion. And on top of that he sends bullets to kill #palestinians. #genocidejoe has got to go. #eattherich
Red states like Ky are planning to eliminate income taxes to move to an entirely sales tax system. They plan to tax all goods & services, so presumably your doctor, home care, your bookkeeper, and your contract labor will all have to charge you sales tax on top of their regular co-pays & fees.
Of course, that means the brunt of all taxes will be paid by the low wage working poor, and the rich will not be affected - nor pay any tax on their income. Small biz is screwed.
Of course, this being the GOP in Kentucky, they will no doubt slap sales taxes on Food & Medicine, too, just to make sure they hurt the poor as much as possible.
B/c that's what right wing christians do - hurt the poor, disabled, elderly by depriving them of food, med care, affordable housing, and then criminalizing homelessness for good measure. In the name of their evil god.
I remember folks in the web community shunning me when I first started speaking out against Big Tech – because I was criticising their friends who worked at Google, Facebook, etc. – saying I was exaggerating things.
I wonder what the same folks think now given what we know about these very same corporations; given a number of them are actively enabling a genocide.
Am I still an alarmist?
(I understand if some of you are too busy working at one or debating the minutiae of CSS syntax to reply.)
Folks have made many visual explainers to help us grasp just how rich the world's wealthiest people are. This is one of the best I've seen: https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
However, I think it's good while viewing this to keep in mind that most folks still think rich people are not bad. I'd urge you to consider while going thru this visualizer how many people are visibly homeless - just where you live - and ask yourself if you could have this much wealth and NOT help, and in fact hinder. #EatTheRich
Rich folks undermine democracries, then have their pick of wherever they want to flee to because their accomplices in other nations believe hooey about the virtue of rich people.
Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun — whose pay-packet is largely comprised of deferred stock tied to prices last year — received his annual compensation of roughly $23.6M for the end of the financial year on Friday. ABC News...
From layoffs to lawsuits, billionaires are striking back to crush worker power (therealnews.com)
Boeing CEO Loses Millions in Pay Amid Plane Maker Troubles (www.improvethenews.org)
Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun — whose pay-packet is largely comprised of deferred stock tied to prices last year — received his annual compensation of roughly $23.6M for the end of the financial year on Friday. ABC News...