• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    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.

    • Sal@lemmy.world
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      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…

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        You’re twisting yourself into knots. I’m just informing protest-non-voters what they voted for.

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          “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.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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        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.

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    Corporate giveaway? Call it what it is: corporate socialism. Using the people’s money to line the pockets of oligarchs

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    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.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      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.

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    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?

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    4 hours ago

    Anyone got a link to the inevitable fact checking post? I trust Mr Reich, but it’s always nice to follow up.

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    Welp, there’s 5 businesses right there that I will not ever buy anything from again.

    They can’t pay their fair share of taxes, I guess I can’t be a customer.