Mike Ward

@JoeBrooks132488 @rushicrypto What’s preventing you from being the head of a company that “owns everything?” I started as a handyman, I now run my own business building houses. I have never once considered if my income in proportion to my workers was “fair” because it is irrelevant. They can’t do what I do.

@wards_66 @rushicrypto um no. they are just at the head of a company that owns everything...

The craziest thing is people not realizing how bad the pay gap has gotten. In 1973, the average worker made $4.12 an hour - about $28 today. Now the median wage is $23. CEO pay has shot up over 1400% since then, worker pay only 18%. People aren’t poor because they’re lazy. They’re poor because the rich stole the raises that should’ve gone to everyone else.

@SteveOnSpeed I have higher net worth and do not feel wealthy.

Would you consider someone with a net worth of $4,000,000 wealthy?

@izamamaa Ummm nope

People need to understand that about 60% of homeless people are employed but just don’t make enough to afford housing and that’s the real issue

DEXIT: Delaware judge’s decision to strip ten years of pay from an African American immigrant has resulted in the departure of $3 trillion worth of companies. Companies can’t trust DE judges to follow the law anymore.

@5149jamesli Other than the terrorists having missiles and nukes yes, better than giving to Somali fraudsters

AMAZING!! $51 BILLION DOLLARS later, we are back to where we were on February 28. WINNING!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@mnolangray Wrong it’s always downstream of democrat fraud and corruption.

As a general rule, if you see something weird in California governance, the explanation is nearly always Proposition 13. 🧵

@PolitlcsUK Aaaaand we are communists

🚨 NEW: 65% of Brits support the Green Party's policy of capping CEO pay at ten times the pay of the lowest paid employee

@broseph_stalin Or workers cannot agree to work for that wage instead of being criminals.

Hypothetically, if warehouses keep burning down, insurers could start treating low wages as a risk factor and refuse to cover sites that underpay staff, turning low pay into a direct liability.

@AaronBlake @Selkis_2028 Someone doesn’t understand the difference between giving and buying

10 years ago, Trump savaged the Obama admin and Hillary Clinton for giving Iran 1/50th of this amount of cash.

@IanCopeland5 The probability that a certain person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person. Cipolla.

This picture of me in the lab at Norfolk State University was taken 10 years ago today. I'm not some antivax clown. I'm an actual scientist I actually do science in real life. There's not a pizza delivering, Uber driving "free thinking" antivaxer that can out think me, in this life or the next. That may sound arrogant. Good. I get paid to be arrogant, and correct...

@yvessirae You’ve been lied to, anyone gullible enough to believe that should not get to vote.

"You're just jealous of rich people" no I'm angry that a man with 12 vacation homes is paying less in taxes than a nurse

@sam_d_1995 If it walks like a conman, talks like a con man, looks like a conman, it’s probably a conman. The funniest thing will be when all these conned people wake up in a couple years and find that all these new taxes have only made the government bigger and have helped no one.

the cool thing about this policy is that there is a very easy way for the rich to avoid it: they can simply live in NYC full time instead of incentivizing the rich to leave New York it incentivizes them to *stay* in New York

@StephieTheLefty @_fat_ugly_rat_ Humidity matters, 95 in ca is not the same as 95 in Atlanta.

@_fat_ugly_rat_ I'm sorry in what world is a high of 95° considered a day of "comfortable weather"

I really need to move to Southern California

@JillFilipovic How financially illiterate people act like stealing an individuals money is “common sense” is amazing to me.

What exactly is the argument against a pied-a-terre tax for second (or third / fourth / fifth) homes worth more than $5 million owned by people who do not even live in the city? It just seems like such a glaringly obvious common-sense policy.

@eurofounder This is going to work out just fine! 😅

Netherlands just announced a new 120% wealth tax It will apply to the ultra-rich who earn above €150k per year So if you make €200k, you pay €60k on the €50k above the threshold Dutch officials explained it is to "discourage wealth hoarding behaviour" So beautifuly said Finally someone in Europe has the moral spine to put an end this selfish accumulation of wealth No human being should make over €150k a year It is a vulgar and borderline pornographic amount I hope more EU countries will adopt this progressive legislation This is why Europe is, and always will be, light years ahead of America

@HustleBitch_ My nephew, 20 years old, out of the blue diagnosed stage 4 esophageal cancer, died 4 weeks after diagnosis. This is real.

🚨 “WHAT THE F*CK IS GOING ON?” — KATIE COURIC WARNS 17 CANCERS ARE SKYROCKETING… AND NO ONE CAN EXPLAIN WHY Katie Couric says doctors are now seeing something they can’t ignore: • A 21-year-old with stage 4 colorectal cancer — no family history • Patients in their 20s, 30s, 40s being diagnosed late… already metastatic • 17 different cancers increasing among people under 50 And even specialists are struggling to explain it. Possible factors being discussed: • Ultra-processed food • Microplastics + “forever chemicals” • Antibiotic overuse • Environmental exposure Couric: “It’s not just lifestyle… something is going on.” And the most unsettling part? Many cases are being caught too late. So what changed? What do you think is actually behind this spike?

@SAFCPaddy @SafcDom99 Why are you a shelf stacker?

@SafcDom99 What job are you going to be making 10x the salary of a shelf stacker in the same company as them?

I will never understand why working class people fight tooth and nail to defend billionaires

@SAFCPaddy Because working people aren’t losers. Only the moochers, the lazy, the incompetent and the ignorant allow politicians and soothsayers to incite hate of successful people. Because it takes the microscope off of massive govt waste and gives the envious a villain.

@RoKhanna @BernieSanders “Just take a little step towards communism, it can’t hurt, pls? Pretty please?”

In that case, are you willing to pay a modest trillionaire & billionaire tax to pay for checks to working families? We could start with the modest $3000 check @BernieSanders and I have proposed for families under $150,000?