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Yasmine Nasser-rafi's avatar

The Founding Father only charged tarrifs for the function of the government. Tarrifs by Congress not a dictator President with executive order decree. And it was only 10-15 percent not more. Subsidizing corporations is theft, because it steals money from the tax payer. Whether it's corporate welfare or socialist welfare, taking money from the productive and giving it to those who don't work is also theft. There's excess taxation in this country that's enslavement and is an economic debt system.

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Yasmine Nasser-rafi's avatar

It's corporate welfare that has created the unConstitutional monopolies.

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Alanna Hartzok's avatar

Tax shift to commons rent - the unearned income that now goes to the few who own the vast amounts of land and natural resources. This tax shift plus public banks will address the great need for economic democracy. See theIU.org and my book The Earth Belongs to Everyone.

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Ivan M. Paton's avatar

You are right. The entire global Monopoly Capitalism system was created by the Vatican, the rebranded Roman Imperial Empire, and it begins with their claim of ownership of all the Earth under the Crown Imperial System - and this is what creates the next monopoly the monoply over land by Crown governments, or in the USA the Federal government, which is an imitation of the Crown system, then the banks use the land to extract the wealth through debt and interst which since 1971 has been based on fake money, fiat money, pieces of paper and ink, being used to transfer all wealth to the owners of the central banks, and the biggest banks in the world - (for owners read monarchies, bankers, and billionaires, in that order, who hide their true wealth in tax havens, trusts adn foundations) - this corrupt parasitic, psychopathic, and predatory system for arranging human life is what creates the weealth and income inequality, and when you add in the rest of the monopolies that are used to transfer the wealth, like the government's monopoly on setting taxation and stealing the wealth and transferring it to the private sector though sovereign debts, subsidies and transfers to multinationals, and then there are all the faked monopolies like patents and IP rights, along with countless corporate laws and industries that only exist to extract monopoly profits - It's a giant parasitic, psychopathic predatory machine that has been 2,000+ years in the making. The truth is what your book's title says 'The Earth Belongs to Everyone' which is why the free tribes of history lived in communities as "Warriors in their Gardens" - living in balance with nature and maintaining the health of their lives by maintaining the health of the environment, as the Senalese still do on the islands in the Andaman Sea. But the rest of humanity have been robbed blind by the parasites of the Crown Imperial Empire system.

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Paulo Kirk's avatar

Taxing a continuing criminal enterprises? Taxing the Mafia? Taxing a few million hitmen? Contract killers, tax them? Oh, tax the polluters and the toxin producers? Tax the pedophiles? Tax the manslaughter queens and kings? Tax the AI guys and AGI LGBTQA folk? Tax the mining companies? Tax Boeing and Raytheon? Oh, tax tax tax?

Sure, that is the peaceful revolution, no, the monsters still in charge. Oh, that's right, where to start with the taxation? Hmm, I do a kilo of coke in my house, selling grams to dentists and doctors and professionals, but, alas, a Good Little German with Loose Lips lets the Nazis of the DEA kind know, and, bam, my house, my guns, my bank accounts, my investments, my retirement, my SS, gone gone gone. Forfeited?

But we will tax these mother fuckers? Nah, you need some training with AK-47's and Molotovs and Claymore mines and, well, Anarchist Cookbook revised.

You digging this headline? Trump’s BBB busts the budget to benefit arms makers, AI warlords

Hmm, and these two Jewish kiddos discussing mostly Jews here: Dem leaders meet with tech, media elites at 'billionaire summer camp'

A full guest list of the Allen and Co. gathering is below:

Big Tech

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple

Eddy Cue, senior vice president of services at Apple

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft

Jeff Bezos, executive chairman of Amazon

Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon

Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft

Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber

Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb

Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir

Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify

Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snap

Bobby Kotick, former CEO of Activision Blizzard

Media and entertainment

David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery

Bruce Campbell, chief revenue and strategy officer of Warner Bros. Discovery

Bob Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Company

Dana Walden, co-chairman of Disney Entertainment

Alan Bergman, co-chairman of Disney Entertainment

Josh D'Amaro, chairman of Disney Experiences

Jimmy Pitaro, chairman of ESPN

Michael Eisner, former CEO of The Walt Disney Company

Rupert Murdoch, former chairman of News Corp

Lachlan Murdoch, chairman of News Corp

Robert Thompson, CEO of News Corp

Barry Diller, chairman of IAC

Ted Sarandos, co-CEO of Netflix

Greg Peters, co-CEO of Netflix

Reed Hastings, chairman of Netflix

Neal Mohan, CEO of YouTube

Brian Roberts, CEO of Comcast

Jason Blum, CEO of Blumhouse Productions

Brian Grazer, film and television producer

Bryan Lourd, CEO of Creative Artists Agency

Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency

Ynon Keri, CEO of Mattel

Charles Rivkin, CEO of the Motion Picture Association

Ravi Ahuja, CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment

John Malone, chairman of Liberty Media

Derek Chang, CEO of Liberty Media

Mike Fries, CEO of Liberty Global

Jeffrey Katzenberg, co-founder of DreamWorks

Michael Rapino, CEO of Live Nation Entertainment

Casey Wasserman, CEO of Wasserman Media Group

Corporate media

Michael Bloomberg, majority owner of Bloomberg L.P.

Diane Sawyer, anchor for ABC News

Anderson Cooper, anchor of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360

Erin Burnett, anchor of CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront

Andrew Ross Sorkin, financial columnist for The New York Times and co-anchor of CNBC’s Squawk Box

Becky Quick, co-anchor of CNBC’s Squawk Box

Bari Weiss, editor of The Free Press

Bret Baier, chief political anchor for FOX News

Evan Osnos, staff writer for The New Yorker

David Ignatius, columnist for The Washington Post

Gayle King, co-host of CBS Mornings

David Begnaud, contributor for CBS News

Bill Cowher, analyst for CBS Sports

Politics

Glenn Youngkin, governor of Virginia

Wes Moore, governor of Maryland

Chuck Schumer, Senate minority leader

Gina Raimondo, former commerce secretary

Other

Ivanka Trump

Diane von Furstenberg, fashion designer

Ruth Rogers, owner of The River Café

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The fix was in right up to 1492.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/12/how-franklin-d-roosevelt-botched-social-security/

And, that fucking cunt, FDR!

How Franklin D. Roosevelt Botched Social Security

Alan Nasser

The seeds of neoliberal economic policy were planted during the founding years of twentieth century liberalism. The Democrats’ current embrace of fiscal conservatism is claimed by contemporary self-proclaimed New Dealers to be a repudiation of the founding bequest, a capitulation to reactionary Republican dogma. Budget deficits, we are told, were legitimated by Franklin D. Roosevelt during the New Deal as a legacy to future Democratic regimes. The political obligation to enhance social welfare is supposed to have trumped the old-time Hooverian taboo against government expenditures beyond government receipts.

Objections to this policy are thought to have been refuted not merely by Keynesian economic theory but mainly by successful practice: once Roosevelt put into place large scale deficit-funded projects like the Works Progress Administration, the economy was launched into its steepest cyclical expansion to this day, from 1933 to 1937. Reagan’s tirades against budget deficits are said to be a throwback to pre-Rooseveltian times and outdated orthodoxy. Imagine the chagrin of “the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party” when Clinton and Obama betrayed the heritage of the New Deal by seconding the Republican commitment to fiscal orthodoxy. The rustling sound you are supposed to hear is FDR tossing in his grave.

This story is the most recent supplement to the myth of the Democratic Party as the “Party of the working man.” It fails to recognize that fiscal orthodoxy and the correlative tethering of social benefit to work and wage level was central to Franklin Roosevelt’s political values and bequeathed to postwar American liberalism a distinctly conservative, anti-social-democratic thrust.

Roosevelt’s 1935 State of the Union Address announced to the nation the introduction of two landmark programs, the Social Security Act and the “new and greatly enlarged plan” for “emergency public works,” the Works Progress Administration (WPA). In the same speech the president revealed his disdain for “relief,” social assistance available to all in need irrespective of their ability to work.

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Paulo Kirk's avatar

Shit dawg, Emanuel:

Oh, Some are Saying Taxation Taxation for the Rich & Jubilee for us Peons! --

Bullshit . . . ahh, that's the ticket -- tax the murderers rapists starvation experts the polluters the maiming cartels, the corporate Mafia, sure sure sure

Paulo Kirk

https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/oh-some-are-saying-taxation-taxation

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