I'm on TikTok now! check it out if you want https://t.co/3LCuCbr8QJ
Here's a sampling of the types of videos I'm doing - no dancing but plenty of info about how our economic system is failing us
You ever think about how we use taxpayer dollars to "incentivize" Amazon to build warehouses, use taxpayer dollars to fund airports and roads Amazon relies on and use taxpayer dollars to give Amazon employees food stamps ...
... yet we don't tax Amazon or Jeff Bezos?
Drug war, 50 years later
*Over $1 trillion extra spent on police for drug laws
*20% of prisoners are in for drugs
*We spend 2x more per inmate than per student
*80% of federal inmates are Black or brown
*Drug use hasn't changed and overdose deaths are up
https://t.co/4FRjEBhBYk
it's been a week and I still can't get over this sob story of a millionaire landlord worried he might have to start paying more than $0 in taxes
https://t.co/YsyzTp58kv
My small business pays about $7,300/year per employee just for health care. Health care costs have doubled in 15 years.
Want to really help small businesses compete with big corporations? Make health care free and pay for it by ensuring big companies pay more than $0 in taxes.
Kroger cut median pay by 8% last year, to $24,600
Kroger raised CEO pay by 45% last year, to $20,700,000
Service workers just had their hardest year ever and got nothing in return while execs profited and people think "they just don't wanna work"
https://t.co/zpllaZS1nq
Kroger cut median pay by 8% last year, to $24,600
Kroger raised CEO pay by 45% last year, to $20,700,000
Service workers just had their hardest year ever and got nothing in return while execs profited and people think "they just don't wanna work"
https://t.co/zpllaZS1nq
"A billionaire pays no taxes? Good for him for outsmarting the system," he said while paying a 25% tax rate and getting no health care, driving on roads filled with potholes and putting their kid $100,000 in student debt because we "can't afford" basic services.
Companies will put out smiling ads saying "we are an equal opportunity employer" then require everyone to come back to the office, which hits (mostly female) parents and caregivers especially hard.
Fewer pizza parties, more benefits that actually help people.
I'd like to apologize for the previous tweet. Rich families that inherit wealth do not "do nothing." They worked hard to donate millions to campaigns to ensure their taxes were lowered by 83% compared to the 1950s
https://t.co/6JenMtJVRf
The richest families have grown their wealth by 1,007% in the last four decades, compared to 93% growth for the median family.
They did this simply by inheriting money, doing nothing and compounding wealth. And they all pay a lower tax rate than you.
https://t.co/2WwAVTpOOW
"why aren't people having kids"
*Average college grad is $30k in debt
*Child care costs the same as rent
*Home costs up 75% in 10 years
*US is only country with no guaranteed paid parental leave
*Millennials have 5% of all wealth vs 22% for young Boomers
https://t.co/EmFfoUcOsY
If you think billionaires not paying taxes is wild, wait until you hear about private equity.
They fail to report $75 billion a year in taxes and get away with it.
Why? Private equity firms are 3x less likely to be audited than people making under $25k
https://t.co/ZyIWmNPvPz