@SenSanders I’m assuming the benefits also are paid on that increase? Or you want to pay more but not receive the benefit ?
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Luke O
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Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.
If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.
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Disgusting. A sinful amount of wealth to do absolutely nothing with to improve the human condition or benefit the natural world.
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
Elon Musk has become the first trillionaire in history.
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@GunnelsWarren Exploited workforce? I wasn’t aware they were forced to work for him.
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Every time Elon Musk claims to be a self-made trillionaire, remember this: He would be worth $0 without at least $38 billion in corporate welfare from U.S taxpayers & a workforce he can exploit.
Yes. Elon loves corporate socialism for himself, rugged individualism for the rest.
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You cannot afford healthcare.
You cannot afford childcare.
You cannot afford rent.
You cannot afford groceries.
You cannot afford gas.
And your taxes paid for SpaceX making Elon Musk a trillionaire.
But sure. Blame it on the single mom who gets $6.20 a day in Food Stamps.
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Trump just got BOOED like nobody's business during the National Anthem.
What does that tell you?
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@jasonwhitlock Skipping the anthem? Happy to be here? How about leave and see how you like another country. Ungrateful sons of bitches
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Looks like a couple of Knicks players skipped the anthem, too. ESPN/ABC so desperate for ratings they're ignoring the players skipping the anthem. Media reluctant to ask.
Sean Mathews@MathewsReport
@jasonwhitlock Wembanyama would have been showed on camera if he was on the court for the national anthem tonight, they showed a close up of every other notable person during the anthem
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Student loans are slavery.
I have a friend who has a masters in business and her student loans are currently at $164,000.
The HR job she was at paid a measly $15/hr!
She only pays $100/month on the loan and with 8% interest, the debt increases by $800 per month!
At the rate she’s going, in 30 years she’ll be 68 and the debt will be $1.447 million.
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“Socialism needs propaganda because reality always ends up contradicting it.”
Estado Mínimo@xestadominimo
“El socialismo necesita propaganda porque la realidad siempre termina contradiciéndolo”. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
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The 9-to-5 system should be completely abolished. Workdays should be 10-3 or 9-2. There’s no reason people should spend most of their lives at work. Let people go home and have time for their families, partners, friends, and rest. This is why so many people hate their jobs.
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@JohnRad15 Yeah the native Americans did it that way and they were in constant battle with each other for it. Not the best system.
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Individuals and households and villages can control land as they've done in most human societies ever to live on this planet before the cancer of capitalism took over.
Capitalism breaks brains.
null pointer@NullThrowaway28
@JohnRad15 @AliceBright_ @KellMorrHK Who else will control land ownership if it's neither the individual nor the State ? You wouldn't be shortsighted enough to suggest it's "The Collective™️" that owns and shares land now would you.
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@michael45982804 Incorrect. Ford (and his company) did most of those.
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When you get sick in Denmark you get world class treatment and get better at no cost.
When you get sick in the USA you get terrible treatment and even if you are a millionaire you go bankrupt.
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@JohnRad15 Why are there no corporate investment in communist / socialist countries? Companies are afraid what they own (land and other assets) will be seized by the government. And thus the economy there sucks since no company wants to invest. Cuba. Venezuela. There are many other examples
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If you rent THEN YOU HAVE TO PAY RENT!!! What part of this is so fucking hard to understand?
Stephen Owen@OwenTheowens1
What about IP can you own that? Why is land so important, if you can rent it that works too, a lot of businesses rent their real estate. You’re presenting an aniquated communist take from an agricultural economy. If you abolish all significant ownership, then yes you have eliminated both capitalism but also free trade, because once the trade is done you have no way to store your wealth or even retain control of the process (factory, research lab etc) that created the value gradient in the first place.
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