Es gibt tatsächlich vermeintliche Expert*innen wie der Ökonom Bernd Raffelhüschen, die dafür plädieren arme/kranke Menschen medizinisch unversorgt und damit im schlimmsten Fall sterben zu lassen.
Raffelhüschen schlägt nämlich eine Selbstbeteiligung von 800,00 Euro für Kassenpatient*innen vor.
"I have cochlear implants and I can only buy parts to fix them or upgrade then from 1 #corporation bc of tech exclusivity. upgrades to get new processors for both ears cost $23k & insurance only covers 90% (and it’s “good” insurance)"
The top 25 richest Americans are together worth just over 1.9 trillion dollars. Let’s say we were to wipe them out and leave each with a paltry 1 billion dollars. Then we divide their assets amongst every American who lives below the poverty line. That would give every single person in poverty slightly over $50K. Could you imagine? You still have 25 billionaires, but now 37.9 million don’t have to figure out whether they’re eating or paying their bills for a while. That’s what #eattherich means.
27 minutes into the new year & Canada's 100 highest-paid CEOs have already earned the average worker's annual salary, according to a report from Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) carried on CBC.
CBC then cuts to Fraser Institute dude who says reports like this are "apples & oranges" because they fail to include other forms of average worker employee compensation like flexible hours. 🤣 #eattherich
I know I don't shut up about this but frankly not enough #people are angry about the 5-day/40 hour workweek (and I am AWARE a lot of people #work even more than that). I feel like a lot more people should be absolutely furious that we only really have two days a week and some occasional hours in the evening to socialise, run errands, do chores, or relax.
It's no wonder so many people are profoundly lonely and disconnected from their #communities when maintaining a social life in what little free time we have is incredibly difficult. If you have kids, a second #job, a very long commute, or other responsibilities, it's nearly impossible.
We literally aren't meant to live like this and I'll never stop being shocked how many people just take it as the natural state of things and don't want to throw a brick through a #billionaire's window every time they think of it.
We are entering into "the great wealth transfer" where about $5.2 trillion (that's the one with more zeros than I can count) is about to pass from the, largely undeserving, super rich to their entirely undeserving heirs.
"Research by Forbes magazine found there were 15 billionaires aged 30 or under but that none had created their own wealth, instead benefitting from huge inheritances."
Is it weird for your old landlord to text you 2 months later and ask, “how are you girls settling in?”
Because I think that’s super creepy.
Dude. I’m not your friend. I never was your friend. You stole our money to pay your mortgage and you bragged about it to our faces on multiple occasions.
Man who is married to a multi billionaire says he will make those who are on benefits and disabled pay for the tax cuts he wants to bribe the electorate with before an election.
He fails to acknowledge impact of years of his party’s austerity on people’s incomes and mental health (most benefit claimants are in work) and there has been a pandemic that has massively impacted the long term health of those aged 50+.
Here's your Monday motivation to give yourself a random award in your living room today. You will still deserve it way more than this embarrassing joke of a woman.
Nita Ambani felt that Nita Ambani deserved an award hence Nita Ambani made sure that Nita Ambani gets an award at Nita Mukesh Ambani cultural centre
By refusing to tax corporations, and refusing to raise the cap on income that is taxable for Social Security, the republicans are purposefully trying to bankrupt the US.
Corporate taxes should be at least as much as individual income taxes, if not moreso.
And there is absolutely no excuse for cutting social safety net programs when corporations clearly are not paying anywhere near their fair share of taxes. Not even close.
Ok if you on the far left want a reason other than #fascism to knock doors for #biden & #dems here you go
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“WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS announced on Friday it is launching an effort to aggressively pursue 1,600 millionaires and 75 large business partnerships that owe hundreds of millions of dollars in past due taxes.” #eattherich
It's wild how some North Americans & some Europeans can understand enslavement was a thing, & so was indigenous genocide & colonialism while simultaneously thinking every rich family is a product of bootstrapping.
Seeing a comment about Poilievre's $1725 per ticket fundraiser made me wonder how much of the CPC income is not received as tax-deductible political contributions (which are subject to limits) but instead as tax-deductible business or self-employment expenses (which are not).
This strikes me as a pretty massive loophole in our political funding rules.
And yes, I know that technically our Income Tax rules would not permit the expensing of these tickets, but fraud happens.
Markets - Where did all the stocks go?
Public Companies In Decline
The number of public companies has fallen fast by Matt Phillips, David Crowther 4/28/24
"...After analyzing the effects of mergers, private-equity investment, and regulatory costs, the paper suggests that M&A is the main culprit. (Though they do theorize that higher costs associated with regulation could be a less important contributing factor.)
“Mergers seem to be the biggest driver of this trend,” Ali Sanati told Sherwood. Sanati is a finance professor at the American University in Washington, DC, and a coauthor of the 2023 paper.
The authors categorized mergers according to various financial metrics, noting that mergers motivated around financing and innovation “are the ones that effectively reduce the number of U.S. listings.”