The Senate can't expand Medicare or Social Security. It can't raise the minimum wage. It can't combat climate change. It can't tax the rich. But it can provide a $76 billion blank check to the highly profitable micro-chip industry that shipped 150,000 jobs abroad with $0 offsets.
Cost to provide Americans with tuition-free community college:
$45 billion over 5 years.
Cost of this year’s military spending bill:
$840 billion.
Priorities.
180 Democrats and 149 Republicans just came together to pass an $840 billion war budget for 2023, which is the biggest in history. If you haven’t figured out that both parties exist to preserve our decrepit capitalist and imperialist system then you’re not paying attention.
You don’t get to pretend that you care about public safety if you’re a governor who allows six major mass shootings to happen on your watch while actively going out of your way to make it easier for criminals to carry guns.
Corporate greed is oil companies making $93 BILLION in profits in the first quarter while they rip off the American people at the gas pump, charging $5, $6, or $7 a gallon for gas while spending $88 billion on stock buybacks to enrich their wealthy stockholders.
"87% of Americans agree that CEO pay is a problem, including 77% of Republicans! If you ask the media, they'd say those people are radical leftists...turns out 77% of Republicans are radical leftists. That is why they do the culture war." -@cenkuygur
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Coming up on #tytlive:
Universal healthcare could have saved more than 330,000 U.S. lives during #COVID19.
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Democrats keep saying “democracy requires everyone to make sacrifices”, but the reality is ‘everyone’ never includes rich people.
It’s always the poor & working class both at home & abroad who make sacrifices while the rich get richer.
It’s not democracy at all. It’s oligarchy.
Yesterday, @POTUS sent a letter to Big Oil demanding an answer to why they're making record profits when Americans struggle to afford record high gas prices.
It's time to pass @SenWhitehouse's and my Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax to return their excess profits to the people.