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It seems these days, everything is about socializing the costs and privatizing the profits.
We need to figure out a way for shareholders and upper management to pay for the largest costs in our country.
If we tax them, they just pass the cost to the consumer, so we need to go directly to their wallets.
They are the beneficiaries of our military industrial complex that has 0 to do with protecting this nation and everything to do with protecting trade routes and corporate interests.
We also need to make them pay for the infrastructure in this country, since without the federal interstate system, they could not ship their goods from China to us.
They take all the rewards while punishing everyone else with 0 risk to themselves.
I recall a time when mom and pops did not have stocks on wall street and dirt roads were numerous.
Business owners lived locally and cared about the people and their surroundings.
Communities depended on each other, knew each other and worked together.
Today, the Corporate HQ could be in New York, the workhouses in China and the owner living in the Bahamas where he has zero care nor skin in the game.
I think the owners need more skin in the game by living in the communities that provide them their wealth and living close to the factories that pollute the landscape.
Upper Management and CEO's have a lot less skin in the game than they did in the past.
CEO's get golden parachutes when the ship is sinking.
They come onboard to a company they did not start after all the hard work has already been done.
They pass the risk to everyone else below them.
They make millions more than those in the past.
They do not need to live in the same city their business is with technology.
Majority of business in this country were not beholden to the money changers on wall street in this countries early history.
That should be a thread to itself on how much money gets siphoned off to shareholders today vs the past.
Consumers are being forced to prop them up since almost every company now goes through the money changers on wall street.
It seems these days, everything is about socializing the costs and privatizing the profits.
We need to figure out a way for shareholders and upper management to pay for the largest costs in our country.
If we tax them, they just pass the cost to the consumer, so we need to go directly to their wallets.
They are the beneficiaries of our military industrial complex that has 0 to do with protecting this nation and everything to do with protecting trade routes and corporate interests.
We also need to make them pay for the infrastructure in this country, since without the federal interstate system, they could not ship their goods from China to us.
They take all the rewards while punishing everyone else with 0 risk to themselves.
I think it is time to end their gravy train.
still trying to tax the rich for their success eh? in the end, the rich dont pay taxes if they dont have to. raise bill gates personal taxes and you can bet he will find a way to reduce his tax burden, either by raising prices on microsoft products, or by putting pretax money away where the government cant touch it, like his foundation. or perhaps he starts a second foundation to take advantage of tax laws.
the only way you are going to make the rich pay more in taxes is to go to a communist economic system where the government owns all the means of production, and you dont want that.
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