@Strandjunker How did someone manage to invent a "federal minimum wage" and at the same time fail to index link it in the obvious way? Were they deliberately setting it up to fail?

@Strandjunker Four words: massively tax the rich.

@Strandjunker jeez

@Strandjunker

It needs to stop…

@Strandjunker it doesn't matter how much they are taxed. they will have their outs. those outs should be eliminated, and the tax system should be made more fair. the realistic tax for middle class is around 40% while listed is 35% but they actually pay around 15% or less. getting rid of loopholes will raise billions or more without changing that tax rate and reduce complications for everyone.

@Strandjunker Agreed! And yet when people try to organise a European Citizen's Initiative called 'Tax the rich' it only receives 349.674 out of the 1.000.000 needed signatures: https://www.tax-the-rich.eu/ .

So either:
1) People agree on taxing the rich, but don't care enough about changing it to become politically active

2) Those who find this topic important don't know how to bring together people and movements along a common goal.

@Strandjunker Kinda begs the question, What is the end point of this progression, if not addressed in some way?

@Strandjunker tax or eat?

@Strandjunker 4000 Minimum wage, three words too, and also set maximum wage, 3 word they hate more than tax, because taxes are so easy to avoid, bahamas is right on the corner.

@Strandjunker And yet the billionaires say the working class are the stupid ones for borrowing money.

@Strandjunker

Welcome to the 1700s!
But don’t worry, your children can work for minimum wage too!

@Strandjunker a more realistic comparison would be to use average cost of living. Comparing the exceptionally wealthy with the minimum wage is just mixing stuff up.

To be clear, I agree with your point but it's straight up demagogue to compare the wealth of the extremely rich with the worse legally possible salary

@Strandjunker Better yet, prevent the rich.

@Strandjunker important to note here though that lack of taxes is not the problem, loopholes are. they would be taxed a lot but in (according to politicians) an effort to get them to contribute to charity there have been many loopholes put in place. thus the solution is to close such means of legal tax evasion and make new methods of getting the same or better charity contribution without the tax dodging.

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Four words: INCREASE THE MINIMUM WAGE!

@Strandjunker imagine they tracked inflation against the wealth of the billionaires.

@Strandjunker @onepict tax wealth.

Tax individual wealth. Tax corporate wealth. Tax anything that isn't creating jobs or cycling money back into the economy.

(remember when companies had massive R&D departments inventing cool stuff and employing people, just to offset corporate tax? Let's have more of that)

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Eat the rich.

Fixed it for you. ;-)

@Strandjunker Do you have a source for those numbers?

@Strandjunker And most of those big giant gains were made during the pandemic. Even tho we're told these men are the most wealthy, they're not. The ppl who are even wealthier don't make their wealth public. If they did, you'd start asking questions they can't answer. Oh, and taxing them wouldn't matter. Govts print the money they need now. Taxes don't fund the govt, they don't need them. Taxes still exist soley to control our wealth.

@Strandjunker If anyone 'wonders' why we are all heading towards a WWIII... #justsaying

@Strandjunker yeh. Hard to believe they did something exceptional or work harder when you put it that way. And anyway, capitalism works best when the poor have money

@Strandjunker Obscene.

Fuck yeah @caseyliss!

@Strandjunker
$7,25?! 😳

@Strandjunker or even tax just those 3 guys to start with.

@Strandjunker how? These guys have nominal income. They borrow against their assets and don’t have “income”. It’s all worth that hasn’t crystallised. I’d suggest once a companies worth hits certain size it must have 1/3 ownership in staff trust. Once is hits the next “level” it has to have a further 1/6 community ownership. Dilute their worth by redistributing - much better than taxing. This avoids money going to wasteful governments but going to workers and communities direct.

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Had they not had that wealth and used that wealth, we would not have:

EVs like Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Co, . remember that the Left LOVED Electric cars and Tesla.

we wouldn't have Amazon or Whole Foods

we wouldn't have Facebook, VR, Istagram or Whatsapp

The 3 men combined, employ almost 2 million people that get much more than minimum wage.

Their wealth is tied into the companies they have created. If that wealth were removed, the companies would suffer as well.

@Strandjunker tax them, and the churches. At least the churches with political messages and influence

@Strandjunker In that same time frame, I can look back and see that I actually make quite a bit more money than I did in 2012, not 10 times more money, but more, yet, I absolutely have way less money than I did then. They're clearly taking our money and making it their own. I don't understand why people can't see this. These people are literally stealing our wealth, and people act like these people are "successful." If that's success, I got some robbing I need to get to real quick.

@Strandjunker

🎉 I'm also a fan of marrying & divorcing the rich.

❤️ Very grateful to MacKenzie Scott for her humanity and philanthropy.

@Strandjunker

These increases arent even earned wealth----------ITS SIMPLE INTEREST

If you put $18,400,000,000 in the bank today you would have MORE than 207,100,000,000. in 12 years

CAP WEALTH AND TAX THE FUCK OUT OF ANYTHING OVER THAT CAP

@Strandjunker
agreed

@Strandjunker @caseyliss Tax them back to the Stone Age!

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Phuuu....
I'll have to order a Beer from Amazon first...

Imagine spending that money locally....

@Strandjunker land of free...

@Strandjunker yes, thank you.

@Strandjunker "Stark contrast between billionaire wealth and stagnant wages. Time for a fairer tax system. #TaxTheRich"

@Strandjunker Thank you for putting out this data.

@Strandjunker it's your fault that you're poor. Nobody else.

@Strandjunker

Taxing anyone doesn't make you more happy. ;-)

Hug yourself, love your family & friends and be thankful not to be stuck in a war-zone or alike.

Being thankful for what YOU have, makes you free.

#ThankFull #freedom #peace #

@Strandjunker it's the polite way to get rid of them.

@Strandjunker People who work for the rich won't tax the rich.

@Strandjunker Between the three of them, they could give half a million people 1 million dollars each and still have billions.

Except none of that money actually exists. It's all in stocks, many of which are probably just numbers that have been sold and loaned out a billion times in the last second alone...concurrently.

@Strandjunker Vote buying is expensive.

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... or put the means of production into working-class hands.

Not too hard. Get it right, Andrea!

@Strandjunker Wealth of Vladimir putin:
In excess of $700 billion by virtue of stealing an entire country and all its resources.
His wealth isn't mostly on paper like Musk et al.
It is in the form of diamonds, gold, and cash.

Eat your heart out, Elon.

Vote for Harris.

Comments on the US economy:

https://medium.com/@colingajewski/americas-coolie-economy-feaf95b0303c

@Strandjunker Tax the rich or we'll eat the rich.

@Strandjunker
Eat.

We can't tax them enough to matter, but we can minimize their ability to harm anyone else.

@Strandjunker exactly!!! Great post

@Strandjunker

Yes, lest they buy more newspapers and kill more editorials to please fascists.

@Strandjunker

So etwas wurde klassischerweise durch eine währungsreform gelöst (alles Geld wird wertlos, neues wird ausgegeben) oder durch ein pogrom (da Christen keinen Zins erheben dürfen, waren die Bankiers ja alle jüdisch).

@Strandjunker how much DID each of these super rich pay in taxes during these 12 years on these gains in wealth?

If they claim to be taxed fairly it should be the same sum like any other working citizen with a decent income of 100k/a has, too.

@Strandjunker Even the state with the biggest minimum wage increase since 2012 is only a 50% increase.

@Strandjunker
Hm no, we're far behind that, it has to be:

guillotine the rich

@Strandjunker
Hm no, we're far behind that, it has to be:

guillotine the rich