Pepsi could give every one one of their 306k employees a $17,000 bonus and still retain $5,500,000,000 in pure profits. Instead they authorized a $10B stock buyback program and paid $6B in dividends to Wall Street this year.
We've reached the point in American political discourse where people just want to justify mass murder. In this case, it's using meaningless statistics to say those neediest among us are "useless eaters". I guarantee a large majority of the people saying the bottom 1% are the reason we're all struggling also call themselves Christians.
If capitalism is so great, why do corporations need so many tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, grants, legal protections, bailouts, and trade protections?
When citizens need these things, why is it socialism?
@appodlachia The south AND Appalachia. How quickly the US has forgotten that Appalachia used to be the seat of socialism in this country, and the coal miners of the early 20th century bled & died for workers' rights & safety regulations.
And thought your taxes will go up marginally, you're no longer spending $800+/month on premiums for a COUPLE, $1200+ for a family of 4.
Literally every single economic study examining a hypothetical M4A system in the US says it not only saves us all shitloads of money, but it would save 100k+ lives per year!
@jublonski77@peachey_keen@Tondieu5@hou96862 Right??! And she calls herself a Christian. Lol, if Jesus came back today, he would be whipping her in the temple for calling God's children things with """market value""". Disgusting.