Best part is if and when they try to restore them or raise them they will bitch about the rates being impossible snd ‘they will just leave’.
Fucking shitfuckers…
Regardless of how taxed these corporations are, they all steal surplus labor value from the working class. Democrats only want to prevent the parasite class from killing the host, not to remove it.
I guess this is where im supposed to say thank you and kiss chuck Schumer’s feet? standards are loooooow. Let’s introduce competition into the electoral process and raise them.
Electoral Reform Videos
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems
If you ever need to remind yourself if Americans are stupid, remember that they elected a born rich criminal with one failed presidency already under his belt who made it very clear he would work to benefit corporations and that he was not a fan of unions or worker rights.
I mean…that is Grade A stupid right there.
xhitter*
Ahh the tariffs make so much sense now, moving corporate taxes to the plebs.
Well, kinda. But also a ton of business to business trade is fucked right now. Automotive manufacturing can shift back and forth across the US/Canada border half a dozen times as pieces are machined and fitted and assembled.
There’s a reason we ditched tariffs for taxes in the 1940s. Tariffs create economic friction at every border crossing. Income/business taxes only capture profits at the end of the accounting period.
yhea, obvious since the beginning. replacing progressive corporate taxes for a flat tax as a fuck you to people.
thank god i don’t live in the US.
EU citizens, never stop fighting.
Do the same with chat control
can never stop. they just keep trying and trying. sadly we have to do the same.
Oh cool so Walmart can afford ppl walking out with full shopping carts now
Ding ding ding
That’s a lot of money to trickle down, can’t wait!!! /s
But MY bills are cheaper!
Except they’re not? This is a perfect snapshot of “trickle down” economics failing. Well, failing for the electorate, huge win for the rich.
All economic systems funnel money to the top without an educated, democratic electorate.
Trickle down economics only work for the non-wealthy. If you give a 1000$ to a poor person, they would ideally buy locally making the money go around the community.
However, we are so deep in late stage capitalism that mega corpos have their claws in everything that every dollar given to them is a dollar that doesn’t go back into the economy
Your example of giving a poor person money which they spend and circulate into their local economy is literally the opposite of “trickle down”.
I think they are trying to say trickle down can work at lower levels of class, i.e. giving money to the middle class will filter a little bit down to the lower classes. But I still doubt that in our current world, like maybe IF there were more small business and IF those businesses would pay their employees more given more profit coming then maybe but one there is a lack of small businesses for common commodities in a lot of regions, and two those small business owners tend to act like corpos now and my assumption is they would hoard that increased profit especially with how shit the economy has gotten. With a lack of stability in todays economy even the most well intentioned small business owners operating costs could swing way too high at a whim. So even for them saving extra profit as a rainy day fund to keep their business alive in those economic down swings would be crucial to staying afloat. Which again just kinda negates the premise of trickle down working at any level even more.
All of this just further points out the only solution is trickle up as giving a poor person money will always circulate upwards. With that, now they can afford more of life’s necessities and even some luxuries once they can become comfortable. All of which will filter into profits for businesses and spur the economy, create more jobs, etc. Its ridiculous that such common sense seems devoid from policy, like all these companies could do so much better without all this greed. I bet in the long run the savings from not needing to fund bunkers, private protection, bullet proof vehicles, enhanced security, etc. in addition to the economic boom of people being able to actually afford to buy things if the uber wealthy just didnt try to act like parasites would pale in comparison to what they get by from a 8-10% break on these taxes in the short term before the economy slowly grinds to a halt and any profit they got starts slowly dissipating more and more as no one can afford to buy anything.
And every single one of those companies has gone through rounds of layoffs in 2025. Not only that, but each one of them had released statements saying that their layoffs were (paraphrasing) “strategic reductions in force” unrelated to economic factors.
Which is a long way of stating the obvious: corporate tax cuts don’t encourage job growth. Even if that stupid theory were true, companies would have eliminated chunks of their workforce with or without the tax breaks because AI investments (/gambles) are majorly driving this iteration.
My buddy works for Verizon and just let a few of us know that Friday they’ll be laying off 15% of the workforce.
they have even less reason to hire people for thier companies, if they can save money they will just squeeze out the current employees or outsource them. prior to takeover r/conservative by russian bakced mods, early on in trumps term, they actually believe no corporate taxes equal=more jobs.
the layoffs have been happening since musk started in early 2023, than followed by every company in tech.
Well my ISP dillegently itemizes every single state local and federal tax they pay as an additional “fee” on my monthly bill. Therefore, I should see that the federal item drop off my bill, right? Right?
This is what you voted for protest-non-voters.
I like how liberals are always like “Leftists are so powerful that without them the dems lose but so unimportant that we don’t need them”.
Almost like it’s one of the core tenants of fascism…
You’re twisting yourself into knots. I’m just informing protest-non-voters what they voted for.
“You should’ve just voted for genocide!!” is what you’re saying here. Also, there’s more than enough evidence to say the muskrat rigged the election, so even without the protest votes you’d still have won.
Who is “you” in the phrase “you’d still have one”. Pretty obvious the person you’re arguing with isn’t a trump voter
But the one you just replied to sure sounds like they voted for Trump by proxy.
Alarmist at best, malicious at worst I think
Pretty obvious the person you’re arguing with isn’t a trump voter
Is that really obvious though? It reads like a troll trying to create pointless division among progressives.
I always read these people as either political bots or children (or adults, similarly intelligent) spreading a meme created by a political bot.
Me: Vote.
You: Stop creating division!
Unreal.
Textbook DARVO sequencing.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO)
On top of that, hypersensitivity, projection, victim-role adoption, blame pre-loading.
While these are effective rhetorical tools for manipulating people, this isn’t how reasonable people engage in conversation.
If you’re not a bot then you’re a narcissist or have picked up narcissistic behaviors from reading social media arguments and should, as the kids say, touch grass.
In fairness I can’t tell now. Good point. I would also dig at people not voting in protest and then complaining about trump being in power, but that is a straw man in isolation and I’ve not specifically come across someone with that opinion
Yes, exactly. They use a lot of bad faith arguments, logical fallacies, etc. They’re all just literary devices to amp up the messaging and they all follow roughly the same kind of bad faith argument templates.
Of course, these could be people. The problem is that they seem to simultaneously be completely ignorant of how reality works while also being an encyclopedia of pop culture political references and grievances. If it’s a person then it fits the ‘chronically online, touch grass please’ stereotype, but there are so many others that argue exactly how it does on the exact same topics across all of social media so I just assume it is a bot or a bot-affected person.
We know there are information operations that exist to shape public perception that are happening on all social media. This is what it looks like, very hard to tell apart from real people (made even harder by real people mimicking them).
Trump was a vote for 10x the genocide, besides all the other fascist stuff he has been doing.
Again, the election was rigged, so no, it’s not the fault of anyone who didn’t want to vote for a non-solution.
they are both strong and weak at the same time, so storng as you must always fight against the enemy, and weak that they cant do anything you want.
Anyone got a link to the inevitable fact checking post? I trust Mr Reich, but it’s always nice to follow up.
It’s a great question in these times of misinformation.
It appears to have come from this policy organisation. Naturally they may have an agenda but at least have more credibility than an X tweet:
https://itep.org/corporate-taxes-before-and-after-the-trump-tax-law/
Corporate giveaway? Call it what it is: corporate socialism. Using the people’s money to line the pockets of oligarchs
Now do the 99%
