These assholes wouldn’t know communism if it walked right up and seized their means of production. Taking care of your own people just means you’re doing a good job as a government.
EXACTLY!
All those things that the meme mentions are something that the government should be looking into regardless of what economy they institute!
I’m paying $2,000 a month for a three bedroom that shouldn’t cost anywhere above $1100 a month!
I went to home Depot last night bought some cockroach traps, Teflon tape a plunger and a short length of stainless steel tubing for $30. What’s up on tables 98 cents the plunger was $4 the box of cockroach traps was eight bucks and the length of tubing was $15! And none of the prices make any sense!
It means you’re not in danger of those people doing what people do. They’ve forgotten what people do.
I miss when reading from top-to-bottom was standard. Now, occasionally, we have to read middle-to-bottom-to-top-to-middle.
Cap top-end wages by regulating a minimum wage that can be no less than 5% of the top pay in that company, (and calling out shell companies so we don’t get a situation where the CEOs’ are technically “managing consultants” to avoid this rule.)
During the 1950-60s (the best period for income inequality) CEO pay was ~30x the company average. If you want to key the limit to the company minimum as percentage of maximum, something between 1-2% would get you to a good place.
edit: A possibly better option would be to tax executive compensation in a way that you don’t tax payroll. Though I don’t know enough to suggest the details with that.
I usually go with 3% when I pitch this idea, But since ole’ Elmo the South African Goose Stepping Space Ass was an actual Trillionaire for a hot second back there, I felt a modest revision may have been more impactful.
edit: A possibly better option would be to tax executive compensation in a way that you don’t tax payroll. Though I don’t know enough to suggest the details with that.
Uh, that’s easy. Progressive taxation, above whatever amount the % increases drastically.
That’s different. That’s based purely on the amount. And I’m not just talking about salary, but compensation, including stock options, expense accounts, and other benefit packages that executives get beyond salary.
Yeah, and all of these have a value that can be calculated. So tax them on the sum of their compensation + the value of the perks they receive.
Yah. That’s what we’re talking about. That’s what I said. I’m not sure what you’re getting at here.
You said, when I talked about progressive tax:
That’s different. That’s based purely on the amount. And I’m not just talking about salary, but compensation, including stock options, expense accounts, and other benefit packages that executives get beyond salary.
I don’t understand what’s different then, if we both agree that the taxable base for an individual is their total compensation, not their base salary. I think we might have just talked past one another and essentially agree
Sounds like it. I assumed you were simply talking about a progressive tax for wages and salaries that we already have.
So? The messaging is easy to reverse.
Republicans want to increase rent prices. Higher credit card interest. More expensive childcare costs. Higher prescription drug prices. Florida can’t afford Republicans’ economic policies.
It’s literally the same game that conservatives pull whenever “the radical woke left” opposes tax caps (which don’t actually lower taxes) and it has a very high rate of success with unaffiliated voters.
Realistically though, that kind of messaging “Far-Left Democrat” in this kind of environment, where Republicans have destroyed the state and federal economies for working class people, isn’t intended to make people vote Republican. It’s intended to make people not want to vote at all because “both sides are bad”.
Didn’t Donald Trump himself talk about caping credit card interest rates? He was lying obviously but I do remember him saying it.
These republicans are shooting themselves in the foot. When the most milquetoast reforms imaginable get called communism, it doesn’t make progressivism less popular, it just makes communism sound good.
This is typical. Overload buzzwords like “communism” and “socialism” and people think they’re bad words without being able to describe why.
as if Conservatives arnt the biggest welfare queens.
And drama queens.
This tweet is extremely funny if you’re aware of the fact that Richard Nixon also instituted price controls.
Nixon is, indeed, too far left to be accepted by the modern RNC.
FOX! lul
The vast majority of voters haven’t studied political economy or social studies. This kind of bullshit resonates.
The other thing is that Trump is not a communist, right? But he definitely has had more of a hand in crafting a completely un-american command and control economy than anyone I can think of.
But investment funds bought whole industries, destroyed competition and pumped prices.
Government looking to the side.
“Communist price controls”?
America is really throwing around communism like a scary buzz word, huh?
theres enough boomers, gen-x, and right wing millineals that still watch faux news
That’s right, good guy trump would never let his administration impede the market’s price setting mechanism. That’s why the admin totally did NOT use Euros to buy Japanese yen, or us bonds to control bond interest rates. And they definitely are not talking about diesel export bans to control the price of diesel. Good guy free market trump would NEVER do anything to mess woth good ol supply and demand! /s obviously
