Why do we vote to protect and enable billionaires? The CEO of Starbucks, for example, makes about $100 million per year. He is able to write off his private jet as a business expense. The average wage at his stores is $17-19 per hour, or less than $40,000 per year, and the front-line workers are not allowed to write off clothing the corporation makes mandatory for them to work at the store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The median household income in the U.S. is about $84,000 per year. To make $1 billion, the median household will need to work 11,943 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
America’s richest once faced a tax rate of up to 91 percent and were still RICH beyond the wildest dreams of most of us. That was well before the billionaire class came along. Today’s billionaires have 1,000x the wealth the gilded age families did. And here’s the kicker: the uber wealthy aren’t paying taxes on most of it. But under the Trump regime, America’s working class is paying a higher tax rate – and that discrepancy is increasing dramatically – than the grossly wealthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Big Beautiful Bill cut about $930 billion in Medicaid, SNAP, and other support mechanisms for the most needed while reducing what the uber wealthy pays in taxes by $1 trillion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Get woke, Amerikkka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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