rbreich ,
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Effective tax rates before and after the Trump tax law:

Verizon
Before: 21%
After: 8%

Walmart
Before: 31%
After: 17%

AT&T
Before: 13%
After: 3%

Walt Disney
Before: 26%
After: 8%

FedEx
Before: 18%
After: 1%

This is what a corporate giveaway looks like.

Sassinake ,
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@rbreich
the real moochers and welfare queens

philip_cardella ,
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@rbreich wait. Isn't FedEx a competitor with the USPS the Trump loving Postmaster General is running into the ground?

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odaraia ,
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@rbreich Lots of extra funds for continued lobbying and bribery, not much for education, healthcare, the arts, libraries, scientific research or holidays. Add AI profiteering and we get the dimming of our imaginations by a kakistocracy.

Luna ,
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@rbreich I wonder how much they paid him?

kevinrns ,
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@rbreich

Its important to warn, but also important to celebrate.
Biden CANCELLED those tax thefts to corporations, a trillion dollars of corruption and unfairness.

THEN Biden ADDED a tax, just on the un-taxed largest corporations, who had not paid taxes since BOOMERS went to high school.

Then spent that money on massive offshore windfarms and free heat pumps for your home, and 7 BILLION in residential solar grants.

You might want the last two, because heat death is coming to your state.

KeithDJohnson ,
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@rbreich For example.

Cartoon by Ted Rall, in the style of Charles Shultz: Lucy in her usual role, holding a football, ready to be kicked by Charlie, while saying to him, "If you cut taxes on the rich, they'll invest that money & create jobs for everyone!" I don't know if Charlie looks dubious as there are not enough features to determine. It's Lucy, he should be.
Cartoon by Clay Bennett depicting The Three Branches of Government as a large fruitful apple tree, with three primary branches labeled Judicial, Executive, & Legislative. Three of The People look up from their gathering of fallen fruit to see above them a man in a business suit plucking apples freely from the comfort of an articulated boom, AKA 'cherry picker', labeled MONEY.

Cartoon by Jonik: A basketball auditorium, the crowd in the background held away from the court by an armed guard while Uncle Sam, standing on the back of another unhappy player, for just that bit of extra lift, as he, US, hoists a short man in a business suit to easily dunk the ball. Scoreboard reads: Big Business 195; The People 8.
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    • CStamp ,
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    @rbreich And isn't the FEDEX guy now destroying the public mail?

    brandon_lehtsko ,
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    @rbreich The opposite of which, I suppose, is a corporate takeaway, right?

    susan77 ,
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    @rbreich This is just so evil.

    Paranoid_Schizoposter ,
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    @rbreich but think about the poor higher ups if we increase the tax again. What are they supposed to live of? Only 14 Lamborghini????

    lightninhopkins ,
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    @rbreich And my taxes went up significantly. What bullshit.

    gumpfloyd ,
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    @rbreich Of for and by the greedy and selfish.

    Radical_EgoCom ,
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    @rbreich
    Taxing the rich isn't enough. The working class has to take action and forcefully seize control of the means of production, dismantling the capitalist system to establish a society based on mutual aid and collective ownership.

    yianiris ,
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    Westinghouse, Lokheed-Martin, Raetheon

    Before Biden
    -80%
    After Biden
    -340%

    that is your reverse welfare state in action, blue or red doesn't matter, just different lobbies.

    The only way out in resetting capitalism is to start before total currency collapse

    The clock is ticking

    @rbreich @heretical_i

    decapitae ,
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    @rbreich Has anyone seen a living wage from any those companies yet?

    philoserf ,
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    @rbreich

    Puts these to gether with the effect they have on the commons. Ouch!

    captainrob ,
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    @rbreich what are the effective tax rates now that biden is president?

    jvillasante ,
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    @rbreich Do you mean let's try to give these companies some intensive so that they actually hire US workers instead of going to India, Mexico... ?

    Aviva_Gary ,
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    @rbreich indeed

    huntingdon ,
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    @rbreich

    Subsidies for the poor? An abhorrent moral hazard.

    Subsidies for the wealthiest corporations on the planet? Necessary incentives.

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