Dtknuckles
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they have been saying this for ages, but CA economy has kept growing and so has the population.
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they have been saying this for ages, but CA economy has kept growing and so has the population.
bother
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BUT our average donation size is $3!!!! grass roots campaign!!!
AG William Bar is leaving before Christmas
ayayrawn
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Special place in hell for this pustule.
djdavedk
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Musk is a douche - sucking the government teat to the tune of 5 billion dollars in taxpayer funding.
Elon Musk's growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in government subsidies
Los Angeles entrepreneur Elon Musk has built a multibillion-dollar fortune running companies that make electric cars, sell solar panels and launch rockets into space.
www.latimes.com
For someone who decries government, he sure takes advantage of it when it comes to free money.
Corporate welfare queen, like the worst of them.
Congressman cites Trump's efforts to overturn election in announcing decision to quit GOP
In an exclusive interview, Rep. Paul Mitchell, Republican of Michigan, told CNN that his disgust and disappointment with President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the election have led him to request that the Clerk of the House change his party affiliation to "independent," and...
www.cnn.com
Interesting. Looks like we still have some GOP members with morals
Djxfactor511
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I mean, he's retiring so it was a low(er) risk decision.Congressman cites Trump's efforts to overturn election in announcing decision to quit GOP
In an exclusive interview, Rep. Paul Mitchell, Republican of Michigan, told CNN that his disgust and disappointment with President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the election have led him to request that the Clerk of the House change his party affiliation to "independent," and...
Interesting. Looks like we still have some GOP members with morals
ayayrawn
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Not buying it. All the other stuff from the last 4 years was apparently okay.Congressman cites Trump's efforts to overturn election in announcing decision to quit GOP
In an exclusive interview, Rep. Paul Mitchell, Republican of Michigan, told CNN that his disgust and disappointment with President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the election have led him to request that the Clerk of the House change his party affiliation to "independent," and...
Interesting. Looks like we still have some GOP members with morals
AnthonyI
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Agreed, not to mention, he's retiring so he leaves unscathed and cowardly in my opinion.
While Bezos has been the biggest beneficiary of the pandemic in terms of largest net worth increase, Musk saw the highest percentage gains with a 228% boost, taking his personal fortune from $24.6 billion pre-pandemic to $73.1 billion as of August 13, according to IPS.Musk is a douche - sucking the government teat to the tune of 5 billion dollars in taxpayer funding.
Elon Musk's growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in government subsidies
Los Angeles entrepreneur Elon Musk has built a multibillion-dollar fortune running companies that make electric cars, sell solar panels and launch rockets into space.
For someone who decries government, he sure takes advantage of it when it comes to free money.
Corporate welfare queen, like the worst of them.
Musk's wealth climbed another $8 billion Monday as Tesla stock soared to an all-time high, making him the fourth wealthiest person in the world.
Elon Musk has tripled his wealth during the pandemic, joining a list of 12 Americans collectively worth more than $1 trillion
Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Warren Buffett are among the dozen richest Americans, whose wealth has jumped 40% during the pandemic.
www.businessinsider.com
I wonder if any of his companies' profitability might come partially from publicly funded subsidies and all the taxes he's not paying....hmmmmmm
AnthonyI
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Ding, ding, ding
Capitalism at its best. Further wage inequality.Ding, ding, ding
Move business where the largest tax breaks can be found and the cost of labor and benefits is cheaper. Executives and shareholders make bank while the workers are no better off at best.
While Bezos has been the biggest beneficiary of the pandemic in terms of largest net worth increase, Musk saw the highest percentage gains with a 228% boost, taking his personal fortune from $24.6 billion pre-pandemic to $73.1 billion as of August 13, according to IPS.
Musk's wealth climbed another $8 billion Monday as Tesla stock soared to an all-time high, making him the fourth wealthiest person in the world.
Elon Musk has tripled his wealth during the pandemic, joining a list of 12 Americans collectively worth more than $1 trillion
Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Warren Buffett are among the dozen richest Americans, whose wealth has jumped 40% during the pandemic.
I wonder if any of his companies' profitability might come partially from publicly funded subsidies and all the taxes he's not paying....hmmmmmm
In the last couple years didn't Bezos also provide assistance for employees with applying for programs like Food Stamps and encouraging them to do so rather than increases wages to livable wages?
Well, the electoral college certified the vote yesterday. So there is no legal avenue in court now to invalidate those votes. It's a done deal.
AnthonyI
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Uh uh, Lindsey Graham says there's still a "narrow" path to victory
Well, that path now requires someone in both the senate in the house to request a vote to invalidate / no accept the electoral colleges results.
With the democrats in control of the house that path is incredibly narrow to get this vote to pass
The vote would have to pass in both the house and senate.
Singing to the tune that the election was stolen from them in 2020 until their dying breath.
This isn't capitalism. This isn't what Adam Smith envisioned with his invisible hand. In fact, both Marx and Smith were huge critics of financiers and the rentier class--those people that generated their income passively through owning a resource that they rent out whether it be in monthly rent or through loan interest. Both warned against giving the financiers power to shape the economy because of the very issues we are dealing with right now.
Oh, it gets better than that:
According to the New Food Economy, Amazon ranks high on the list of employers with massive numbers of employees enrolled in SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, otherwise known as food stamps). In Ohio, around one in 10 Amazon employees uses SNAP; in Pennsylvania, about one in nine. In Arizona, nearly one in three Amazon employees is enrolled in the food stamp program.
Later this year, Amazon will start accepting food stamps for online grocery orders, from which it stands to benefit enormously as one of the nation’s top retailers. That means the company will be the recipient of government assistance (in the form of tax breaks and incentives) while its own workers are forced to rely upon that same program to survive.
A large number of Amazon workers rely on food stamps for assistance
The latest troubling revelation regarding the online retail giant's working conditions.
archive.thinkprogress.org
So Amazon workers are on food stamps and Amazon accepts food stamps so he not only doesn't pay his workers a living wage, but also rakes in government dollars by accepting the very food stamps that his workers rely on.