@GiveKeys2Lyoko@glt123190@DrKPCornell@hasanthehun Communism is an economic system like capitalism. Both Commuinism and Fascism reject liberalism, but communism ends capital accumulation while fascism controls personal liberties. The end goal of Communism is prosperity for all, not just Elon.
We really CANNOT have sustainable energy because it threatens the oil industry. We cannot have healthcare because it threatens insurance. We cannot have peace because it threatens the weapons industry. Capitalism built a system where doing the right thing is treated like bad business.
It is important to resist the commodification of basic human needs. Food, water and healthcare cannot be subordinated to market considerations or geopolitical interests. Access to adequate food is a fundamental human right grounded in the dignity of every person. Meeting this need not only alleviates suffering but also addresses underlying causes of geopolitical instability. Indeed, food security is an essential component of global and integral security. https://t.co/DgkM9RegJ7
Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.
If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.
elons “trillionaire” status is its total bullshit from over evaluation of his companies stocks which he barrows against the untaxed unrealized gains If he actually had to sell for liquidity,m the stocks would crash and hed have to pay taxes on it
Tax the rich=that type of income
The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did.
And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves.
One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults.
Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life.
If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever.
Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone else’s savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen.
Alternatively
There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all.
To start -
If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers.
It’s the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail)
Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability.
Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up
But
They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks
Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.
@realDonaldTrump You arrogant, silver-spooned clown.
It wasn’t you. It was never “guys like you.”
It was the deaf laborers hammering steel until their ears bled, the Black slaves whose blood, sweat, and broken bodies literally built the foundations of this nation’s wealth while your ancestors were probably counting their inherited coins. It was the indentured servants treated like disposable dogs, the starving Irish fleeing famine only to dig your canals and lay your railroads, the Chinese workers blasted apart building the transcontinental line for pennies and contempt, the Italians, Germans, Jews, Scots, and English tradesmen pouring their muscle and skill into factories, mines, and shipyards.
It was the pioneers and farmers who broke the prairie with their bare hands, buried their children in frozen ground, and fed this country through droughts, blizzards, and plagues. The fishermen risking their lives on wooden boats so your kind could eat lobster in Manhattan. The common men and women—the “complainers,” as you sneer—who actually did the work while robber barons and dandy boys with daddy’s money sat back, exploited them, and took all the credit.
You and your fellow trust-fund grifters couldn’t build a goddamn birdhouse without hiring real people to do it for you. You inherited wealth, stiffed workers, filed bankruptcies, and played golf while calling yourself a builder. Without those “ingrates” you love to shit on—the ones who actually sweat, bleed, and die for this country—you’d be nothing. A loudmouth real estate heir with a big mouth and zero calluses.
The complainers? Many of them are the descendants of the people who made America possible while your crowd was busy hoarding it. They have every right to complain when pampered elites like you lecture them about “building” from your golden tower.
This country was built from the bottom up by the forgotten, the immigrant, the laborer, the slave, the farmer—not by blowhard billionaires who think slapping their name on a building makes them Paul Bunyan.
Sit down, Donny. The real builders are still carrying this nation on their backs, and they see right through your nonsense.
@VPToughLoveShow@MichelleMaxwell Who gave the trophies? Who was supposed to teach them anything? Boomers expected unquestioned obedience and taught nothing except how to live in excess. Hammered in Christianity then didn’t live a Christian lifestyle, just one twisted by prosperity preaching and televangelists
Netanyahu is lobbying for Section 224 in the national defense bill, a provision that quietly expands U.S.-Israel military cooperation and weapons development with almost zero oversight.
The American people do not want more U.S. military aid to Israel. We must defeat Section 224.
@Nurse_and_MD@Ismokerugs@RabKeyz@DerrickEvans4WV Maybe there should be some sort of regulatory body that inspects food and insures the quality of products. Maybe we could call it food something agency. Though we would have to make sure companies don’t just pay inspectors or be former employees of those companies.
@LFighter45887@dunbar422@cafreiman You really have no idea what you’re talking about. Get off whatever forum/subreddit/discord you’re getting your info from because it’s wrong and you sound ignorant. This entire exchange belongs on confidently incorrect.