NoShit...

[pbmus]

[SamKnause]

1. Facts no longer matter in the U.S., especially in the Republican wing of government.

Until the Republicans are laughed at, mocked, and humiliated every time they mention

tax cuts for corporations on news programs, nothing will change.

News programs should have the facts, charts, and graphs at the ready to disprove

the lie that Supply Side Economics was successful.

The only thing that is trickling down in the U.S. is poverty, and it is trickling at an alarming rate.

People working 2 low wage jobs are barely keeping their heads above water.

If you want to spur the economy and create jobs, increase wages !!!!!!!!!

[madokie]

7. True that

"If you want to spur the economy and create jobs, increase wages"

[Smitty63nnn]

9. It all starts with the minimum wage

15 an hour sounds good to me. Imagine the economy with 15 an hour minimum wage. You know damn well, it will all go back to the economy.

[madokie]

11. Ultimately

our government would be able to afford all the social programs we so badly need. Plus rebuild our infrastructure, prepare for the future even

Its not right that we have homeless people. Should be zero persons who don't have a place to lay their heads or a table to eat from. Its not right that we have so many people who can't afford to see a doctor or a dentist.

Where we are as a society is not where we ought to be.

[Smitty63nnn]

17. I totally agree, but

until something changes it will be the same old shit, over and over. And as of today, I can't name one thing that has changed from all the mistakes in the last election.

We lost to DONALD F TRUMP. This was huge. The verdict (in my mind) is still out on how that happens. Yet nobody seems to care, since we've done nothing to fix what went wrong. I can think of 2 areas to improve. Super delegates and the electoral college. Yet, NOTHING!!!!.

[Wounded Bear]

2. They have decoupled profits from wages...

used to be, the tax structure encouraged corps to re-invest in their own plant equipment and employees. Now, they mostly re-invest it in stock buy-backs, so the investor class gets richer and wages stagnate.

[smirkymonkey]

3. Anybody who believes this is going to be a windfall for the working and middle classes is just

a fucking idiot. I'm sorry. Maybe I am being too cynical, but I would be everything I own that it will never happen. The gap between the haves and have nots will only grow wider.

[rzemanfl]

4. Have a "t" on me. Gamble with it. n/t

[They_Live]

8. I'll take "missing letters" for 500, Alex. n/t

[rzemanfl]

10. Donald Drumpf's *ee tapes. n/t

[WinkyDink]

16. Oh, I don't know; "I would be everything I own" has rather a profound meaning, no?

[Hoyt]

5. Unfortunately, today there is more money to be made from investing in assets than workers.

Don't really think that will change anytime soon, no matter what is done. Sooner or later, we are going to have to look at some form of guaranteed income or something similar. But, that's probably not going to happen soon either.

[TrollBuster9090]

6. Yep, not only profits have been historically high, but also the CASH ON HAND of corporations.

I remember hearing that American corporations were sitting on top of $2 Trillion in profits in 2009 when the 'stimulus' bill was passed. They continued to sit on it, rather than hiring people.

How long is this stupid ZOMBIE ECONOMICS LIE going to persist. Corporations DO NOT USE higher profits to hire more people, or to pay the people they already employ higher wages (except for the executives, of course). And, cutting taxes for billionaire plutocrats DOES NOT make them hire more people, or create jobs. Give a billionaire another tax cut, and the only person he'll employ is another accountant to find a way to stash the money in a shell company in the Bahamas.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Or the billionaire simply buys more property, which does not create jobs, only inflates real estate.

[pbmus]

13. And then rents out the real estate for double the mortgage...

This is America eating itself...

[WinkyDink]

14. DUH!!! Workers are considered LIABILITIES by corporate owners and stock-holders!! PROFITS ARE

REDUCED PER WORKER!!!

Salary, health benefits, pension, vacation time, overtime, sick pay, jury duty, Military Reserve duty, etc. = LOSSES TO STOCK-HOLDERS.

To be clear:

CORPORATE OWNERSHIP HATES---YES, HATES---EMPLOYEES.

[Honeycombe8]

15. Of course it won't. It never has, that I'm aware of. nt

[world wide wally]

18. Just the same old tired shit that Bush did

And we saw how that ended up

[pbmus]

19. And reagonomics...a totally failed trickle down disaster..

[BigmanPigman]

21. No, it was a successful disaster and a failed, flawed

concept. Someone on CNN said that the average middle class person will see a whopping $8 a week benefit...WOW! What will people do with all that cash?

[VOX]

20. Since Reagan, GOP gives tax cuts; then Democrats have to raise taxes to bail out the sinking ship.

No one likes the adult who tells you to eat your spinach. And Democrats have been put in that position since Bill Clinton. The GOP, the so-called "party of fiscal responsibility," racks up massive tabs on never-ending war, ignoring major natural disasters, and sending more wealth upstream to their 1% buddies.

It's past time to break up that pattern.

[jmowreader]

22. A boss I had once described corporate taxation in the best way I ever heard

If you are a corporation...

you earn $1000...

and you are paying taxes on more than one of those dollars...

you need to fire your accountant for incompetence.

When guys like Rex Tillerson (former CEO of ExxonMobil and current United States Oil Minister) claim the corporate tax rate in this country is too high, I always think, "what the hell are you smoking, and can you give me some? We're already paying your ass $170 million in refundable tax credits for the privilege of getting gouged at your gas stations. How damn low do you want taxes to be?"

[Corvo Bianco]

23. How does the MAGA working class have no idea who their oppressors are?

Their blind trust in rich dudes is stunning. Oh well, at least they get to swoon over Hannity nightly. Worth it!