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Robert Reich (@RBReich) Tweeted:
If you paid just $1 in taxes in 2018, you paid more than Amazon, Netflix, Chevron, and 57 other billion-dollar companies.
Seems fair, right?
Link to tweet
Yeah me.
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)Skittles
(153,147 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,809 posts)tax dollars go to the military, ponder this.......most of a corporations products depend on ocean going ships, just how many of those ships would get pirated or hijacked if it werent for the US Navy, Coast Guard, and Air Force.???
Basically we are paying to protect Corporate profits,. The corporations arent paying a dime
FASCISM is the merger of government and corporations.....we are virtually there people
appalachiablue
(41,122 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,723 posts)Throw in control of all government institutions by the wealthy and it's a trifecta of corruption , greed and power over "the people."
Rollerman
(42 posts)Theyll be screaming from high heaven about the deficit. Theyll want to cut the Social Safety nets, but not a word about re-raising taxes. Gawd I hate those bastards.
progressoid
(49,978 posts)She said the same thing at a town hall on Sunday.
Seems to me they are friends.