OT Unregulated capitalism killing the American Dream

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...tion-they-need-address-soaring-housing-costs/

 

Gutless Cali Dems Bribed to Kill HealthCare Bill.



Edit: I keep telling people: When you can watch a video of a candidates words versus what they do after they get into office. You can clearly see their hypocrisy and corruption.

 

Starbucks Profits Soar by 31%—But It's Raising Prices Anyway

One critic said the company's explanation for the coming price hikes amounts to "word salad to hide corporate greed."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/02/starbucks-profits-soar-31-its-raising-prices-anyway

With profits like that, and you still have the balls to screw over your workers... and customers. Got to love corporate America...

 

Tax-Dodging Billionaire Dynasties Could Cost US $8.4 Trillion: Report

The wealth-hoarding by ultrarich families would be equivalent to over four Build Back Better plans.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...re-dynasties-could-cost-us-84-trillion-report

Our government is literally helping these people rob from America.

I believe that America can't afford it's billionaires for very much longer.

 

Econ 101

 

Billionaires Exploit Crisis Text Line to Feast on Your Pain.



It is sick the ways in which billionaires have come up with to make money off of your information.

 

Starbucks, Big Oil Caught Making Billions Off Price Gouging.



Gouging Americans during a pandemic. That is so American.

 

Amazon Caught Surveilling, Threatening NYC Workers.

 

The Gig Economy.

 

Matt Stoller: Exposing The Amazon Prime Scam.

 

All that for an extra 1.52% tax?

 

But what if all of those highly educated and happy children just grow up looking for handouts instead of using their degrees?

It's important that we wait at least a couple hundred years before following this path. Otherwise we may possibly eventually end up seeing high rates of homeless and crime here in the US...

 

Prescription Drug Costs Set to Become a Leading Cause of Death for Elderly Americans.

https://www.projectcensored.org/1-p...leading-cause-of-death-for-elderly-americans/


Big Pharma is Now the Top Threat to Granny - with Lee Camp



Grandma got run over by Big Pharma...

 

A Bridge Too Far? The Dutch Are Lining Up to Pelt Jeff Bezos’s Gigayacht With Rotten Eggs.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/ar...-rotten-eggs/ar-AATzCM6?ocid=hponeservicefeed

 

'Class Warfare' in Action: Amazon Dodged $5.2 Billion in Taxes in 2021

"Amazon's 6% tax rate is a result that lawmakers have enabled and could prevent if they summon the political will to do so," said one expert.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...re-action-amazon-dodged-52-billion-taxes-2021

People say we should all be responsible citizens, yet our very own government gives away money to rich people who literally don't even need it. Sickening.

 

When Private Equity Becomes Your Landlord

"Amid a national housing crisis, giant private equity firms have been buying up apartment buildings en masse to squeeze them for profit, with the help of government-backed Freddie Mac. Meanwhile, tenants say they’re the ones paying the price."

https://www.propublica.org/article/...ecomes-your-landlord?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

New Data: Billionaires Bought The US Government For $14 Billion.