but who's allowing these corporations to get away with it? who created the loopholes?
was it the average joe? no, it was the government that is now asking for more money
every problem you listed has been allowed to exist by the government so I'm sorry that I don't trust them with even more of my money
oh and i just want to point out that I'm mostly talking about FEDERAL tax increases, i have no problem paying for cops, fire depts, etc, but that's all state/local level stuff
ok lets discuss it. You do realize i agree with you right? lets start there first.
i'm not in love with the government.
But there are some things that we are better at pooling our resources and allowing the govvy to setup something for ALL of us that will save us cash and assist us. now the moment you give an entity that kind of cash/power. someone can go to far. we know this. but that will never stop being the case. thats just reality. its a reality we have to live with. the question is, what kinds of checks and balance you can put into place? we have them. but we rarely use them. or i should say. we stopped using them. which got us in trouble a few years ago. but US is like me and you. small business owner, middle to broke classers and even some ballers on the lower baller scale took some L's during the downturn. but who won were the 1%. they won so big. that the gulf between the haves and have nots increased. what part of the game is that?
see understand something. when you hear repubs and fake libertarian repubs, talking that let the markets correct themselves, and get the government out of this or that when it comes to business. they are not telling you the entire story.
These fools want the government out of the way. but yet they love the military and guess what the government does, outsource aka contract a lot of private sector folks to work for them. most people dont realize how many people government programs will employ that dont work DIRECTLY for the government.
repubs know this. so they are just talking. they dont mean it. let the markets correct themselves would work if big companies would stop lobbying to change the rules.
and for the record. Bernie agrees with me and you on what you said about the government. why do you think he's raising most of his doe from regular people and not getting paid from ultra rich folks. he's trying to get the money out of washington. he's setting an example. see its one thing to talk it. its another to walk it. the dude is walking it. and he's been saying the same things for years. the reason that wall street, and these huge companies find these loopholes is because they buy off politician, put money in judges, pockets to loosen up the laws and rules. so they can break them without actually breaking them.
Obama hasnt put a single Bank CEO in jail, while having them pay some fines. why not? its obvious they have been proven guilty. which is why they have to pay so much. why no jail time? because you can't put the guy in jail who helped you get elected.
quiet as kept. some of that election money is blood money. you know why? because they are to some degree stealing it from the american people using some of it to buy politicians to turn around and change laws or make sure they never put anyone in place to be a cop and go after these people. so when they break laws, they pay a little fine and keep it pushing. while the rest of us starve.
and obama is technically the good guy in comparison to some. hillary is worse, repubs are just as bad as her or worse.
bernie is like NOPE. EFF ALL THAT. time to take the money out. these are the type of people we need to vote for at the local, state, and federal levels. if we dont. we get what we deserve for not paying attention. sure its not right to rob someone, but if you're stupid enough to walk in a dark alley at 3am in the morning counting your money and you get robbed. a lot of that is your fault.
