The effective federal corporate income tax rate:
1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%
Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.
That is how we will pay for it.
This time last year, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said that releasing movies in theaters was "an outmoded idea for most people" and that consumers wanted "to watch movies at home."
Today, movie theaters have scored their biggest weekend of all time at the global box office.
Joy Reid: “You’ve been spending a decade insisting Elon Musk is genius. When you hear him talk you realize he’s actually an idiot. You keep telling them, ‘But he invented Tesla,’ when he didn’t, he just bought it. Two other white dudes invented Tesla, they’re geniuses. Elon just bought it and now people think he’s a genius. No, he’s not”
Salmonella in the eggs.
Flesh-eating screwworms in the meat.
Diarrhea lettuce.
Smoke in the air.
Forever chemicals in the soil.
Data center pollution in our water.
Handing Saudi Arabia nuclear technology.
A war over a strait that was already open.
$5 gas.
Expensive groceries.
Skyrocketing healthcare costs.
Crushing utility bills.
Are we great yet?
The irony of Republicans controlling all branches of government while
bankrupting the country, starting a war, sending money to fraudulent programs, violating the Constitution, giving corporations immunity...
but arguing that the biggest problem we have is “stolen elections.”
How the fuck do we have $300 billion to rebuild Iran after we spent $80 billion bombing it, when we don’t “have the money” for pediatric cancer research?
Well there’s this special interest called the gun lobby and they convinced the GOP to embrace guns for anyone, anywhere and turned their base into rabid gun extremists and now over 120 people are killed by guns every day and politicians are routinely shot at or assassinated.
You’re not happier, though. You got your white supremacist president, your conservative Supreme Court, your restrictive laws & inhumane deportations & you’re STILL miserable, hateful bigots. And it’s bc all those things don’t actually help you in any way, they just hurt others.