On #PrimeDay, let's not forget. Amazon blamed "inflation" on a 17% price hike in a Prime membership after its profits soared 450% since the pandemic to a record $38 billion while avoiding $5 billion in taxes, spending $4 million on union busting & denying workers paid sick leave.
us: left govt, high inflation
uk: right govt, high inflation
germany: centrist govt, high inflation
italy: everyone in govt, high inflation
wild guess it’s not the govt
“Biden is causing rising grocery prices!”
4 companies control 90% of the baby formula market.
4 companies control 85% of the beef market.
3 companies control 78% of the pasta market.
3 companies control 72% of the cereal market.
It's corporate greed.
NEW: Apple Store workers in Maryland are attempting to form the company’s first US union.
While CEO Tim Cook made $98 million last year, workers face threats from customers and are barely scraping by.
“There’s a revolution coming and it’s gonna be one retail store at a time.”
That cut to Peter Doocy...
“Everyone had to prove they were fully vaccinated and boosted. So if you are at home watching this and you wonder how to do that, just contact your favorite Fox News reporter. They’re all here, vaccinated and boosted, all of them.”
If you are against Medicare for All on the basis of “I don’t want to pay for someone else’s care,” please explain what health insurance is. Because you pay for other people’s care AND the CEOs yacht. It’s simple. They’re middle men profiting off sickness.
Big oil companies are engaged in massive profiteering and price gouging. We need a windfall profits tax.
March 2008
Gas: $3.23 per gallon
Oil: $104.54 per barrel
March 2014
Gas: $3.51
Oil: $102.28
Last week:
Gas: $4.10
Oil: $111.42
Today:
Gas: $4.32
Oil: $95.17
Professors will still be paid when college is free.
Doctors and nurses will still be paid when healthcare is free.
The middlemen standing between the people and those services won’t have 3 yachts anymore.
"Biden is causing rising gas prices!"
Exxon raked in $23,000,000,000 in profit last year.
Shell raked in $19,000,000,000 in profit last year.
Chevron raked in $15,600,000,000 in profit last year.
BP raked in $12,800,000,000 in profit last year.
"why are food prices so high"
UNFI (the nation's largest grocery distributor) just reported its highest sales ever, "driven primarily by inflation."
Its profit is up 11.9% in the last year.
Every stop along the supply chain, corporate greed has been rebranded as "inflation."