Peter Kropotkin wrote:the actual number is the military budget is 720 billion which
accounts for 57% of the federal budget..
and we have huge corporations that pay no taxes...
for example, Netflix and amazon paid no federal taxes along with
IBM, Goodyear, Chevron, Halliburton, US Steel, General Motors, just
to name a few of the couple hundred corporations that paid no federal
taxes...
and we have multiple Televangelist who are worth millions..
Joel Osteen in Texas is worth 40 million dollars..
Kenneth Copeland is worth 760 million dollars....
tell me again why churches aren't taxed?
the money is there.. the big corporations and wealthy individuals
simply pay members of congress to do their bidding... and that is why
we have a massive deficits because of huge tax cuts to billionaires and corporations....
the money is there......to do a universal basic income...if we simply get people
and corporations to pay their fair share of taxes....
Meno_ wrote:Because the profit to loss ratio is thin and taxing them, or devaluing the standard of living of CEO's would devalue their motivation.
Rule of thumb is: the higher the echelon, the thinner the veritable risk of failing, a. reverse domino effect of trickle down.
Most of these internationals are indebted to the hilt by failed acquisitions, whete millions are really have become chicken feed.
Slightest bad moves can effect hostile takeovers followed by breakup of the corporation anyhow.
Huge corporations fail, Enron among them, Chrysler, K Mart ... The list is long and the profit Nowedays us made in vastly overrated high risk markets, generally overseas.
Besides home offices have been usually been moved overseas, in neural offshore territory, or on basis of inducements of one kind or another.
The drug money only upsets the apple cart, only when stupidly exposed , as was the case with Delorean.
Otherwise the war on drugs is simply a tactical ploy to undermine unwarranted competition. Even presidents were known to indulge, remember the whole dis Do about drug money for the contrast?
The swamp is far and wide.
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