Donald Trump tax cuts

White House Rips Trump’s Tax Cut Push: ‘Welfare For Big Corporations’

Some Trump advisers, would like to further push the tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations Republicans passed during Trump’s first term in office, potentially lowering the corporate tax rate from 21% to 15%. Before the 2017 tax law’s passage, the rate stood at 35%, and President Joe Biden has proposed increasing it to 28%.

#trump #Oligarchy #gop

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-house-trump-tax-cut-push-welfare-for-big-corporations_n_64ff7441e4b0859f19562759

"The junktanks are rightwing, pro-business lobby groups that act as intermediaries between oligarchic and corporate capital and public policy. Their role is to make the outrageous demands of economic power look like common sense; to conflate what is good for billionaires with what is good for everyone else."

Powerful words from George Monbiot on environment charities that prostrate themselves before Capital.

#RSPB #BenCaldicott #GeorgeMonbiot #oligarchy #Capital

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/08/rspb-ministers-wildlife-charity-power-britain?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#Oligarchy Has Arrived. Congress Must Take Notice — and Act! https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/09/04/oligarchy-has-arrived-congress-must-take-notice-and-act/

@gabrielarana @TexasObserver it was in fact getting better and saying that doesn’t erase history. There’s a bonafide far right media revolution since 2016 behind #MAGA and whipping up extremism & conspiracy which spans tv, radio, social and the web. Not coincidentally, it’s a moment when powerful corrupt #oligarchy wanna bes want to weaken #democracy. When you say, oh this is how it’s always been. You erase what’s happening. I mean that’s not helpful.

Mega-Rich Are Paying $600,000+ a Year to Insure Their Mansions Against Climate Disaster

"The growing insurance crisis illustrates the vital importance of seeing climate change as a risk to the entire financial system,"

With extreme weather disasters increasing in frequency and intensity as the global climate crisis rages, wealthy homeowners in some coastal areas of the US are paying six figures a year to insure their houses against flooding

#ClimateCrisis #Oligarchy

https://www.commondreams.org/news/home-insurance-climate

Our Unbalanced Government Dictated By The Capitalist Oligarchy

The Capitalist State is the organized authority, dominance, and power of the Oligarchy over the masses. It is the most obvious, most cynical, and most total negation of humanity. It breaks the unity of all men and women on earth and gets some of them together only to kill, conquer, and enslave the rest.

#Oligarchy

https://gwfoto.medium.com/our-unbalanced-government-dictated-by-the-capitalist-oligarchy-14229fbc9a5d

Towards Strategies for Social Change beyond Domination

The current capitalist system has sped up humanity’s descent into a multi-dimentional crisis that threatens the very existence of humanity. It is of crucial importance to put an end to the predatory logic of capitalism that sacrifices human lives and the natural world in the name of generating profits for a small class.

#capitalism #Oligarchy

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/towards-strategies-for-social-change-beyond-domination/

Four Billionaire Techno-Oligarchs—Are Creating an Alternate, Autocratic Reality

Four very powerful billionaires—Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreessen—are creating a world where “nothing is true and all is spectacle.” If we are to inquire how we got to a place of radical income inequality, post-truth reality, and the looming potential for a second American Civil War, we need look no further than these four—“the biggest wallets,”

#Oligarchy

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/musk-thiel-zuckerberg-andreessen-alternate-autocratic-reality

The latest on free speech absolutist Elon Musk’s efforts to silence civil rights groups. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/civil-rights-groups-attacked-elon-musk-are-mounting-counteroffensive-rcna103579 #extremism #CivilRights #oligarchy #democracy

Today's #Thought

"#Pluralism.
#Democracy reigns in the country,
in society #Darwinism,
in the company #oligarchy,
in the consciousness #conformism,
in the subconscious #anarchy."

Rainer Kohlmayer

#x #adl #elonmusk #oligarchy Sorry Elon, advertising revenues are down because no one wants to be associated with your crumbling empire. It has nothing to do with any criticism from ADL or any other organization. Elon Musk's X Corp. sues nonprofit group that tracks hate speech https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musks-x-corp-sues-nonprofit-group-tracks-hate-speech-rcna97511

Because every kid dreams of growing up to be an Oligarch Saudi Prince who murders journalists with bonesaws.
#Musk #Saudis #Media #Oligarchy #Journalism

Can't we all get along?

The ideal that we're all in this together was replaced with the reality that the educated class lives in a world up here and everybody else is forced into a world down there. Members of our class are always publicly speaking out for the marginalized, but somehow we always end up building systems that serve ourselves.

If you swap out "educated class" and replace it with "the rich," you might start sounding like a left-winger.

#Oligarchy

https://www.salon.com/2023/09/03/cant-we-all-get-along-actually-no--not-when-the-other-side-behaves-like-that/

#Bernie Sanders: “Today We Are Seeing Workers Stand Up and Fight Back”

"August speech, still good for Labor Day weekend"

#Oligarchy, Not #Democracy

In this world today, very few major corporations are just national in scope. They are multinational, global operations. Companies like BlackRock, Vanguard, Apple, and Amazon have holdings in many parts of the world — constantly on the lookout for the cheapest possible labor and the weakest environmental standards.

https://jacobin.com/2023/09/bernie-sanders-labor-day-work-week-climate-inequality-automation-covid

TERRAZZANO: "Gas tax hikes show Trudeau doesn’t care about affordability torontosun.com/opinion/column… "#Trudeau #cdnpoli

Oh that's right. And when #PMJT isn't masquerading as #CEO of #Exxon Mobil he's disguised as Galen Weston.

#CorporateGreed #OilandGas #Oligarchy #Postmedia

DeSantis' new insurance law could make it harder to rebuild after Hurricane Idalia

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/08/hurricane-idalia-desantis-home-insurance/

> The legislation makes it difficult to sue insurance companies for short-changing policyholders.

> It is a big win for DeSantis, whose political coffers have been boosted by the insurance industry

The US electoral systems have turned it into an #oligarchy, or #plutocracy (rule by the wealthy).

Some books I have read recently #Anarchism #Oligarchy

The Oligarchy Has Arrived and Congress Needs to Take Notice…and Act

A malignant class of modern robber barons has amassed unthinkably large fortunes

These wealthy have catastrophically impacted our politics

They have weaponized their wealth to co-opt, corrupt, and choke off representative democracy

They have purchased members of Congress and justices of the Supreme Court

They have manipulated their newfound political power to amass ever-larger fortunes

#oligarchy

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/08/30/the-oligarchy-has-arrived-and-congress-needs-to-take-notice-and-act/

@gdeihl @whatzaname @urlyman @justafrog @breadandcircuses

I have also come to that conclusion but I don't know a way to do that without global buy-in of the idea, and within #democracy given our current #oligarchy. It requires societal #upheaval—and do we have time for that? We don't have time not to do it either, but I'm trying to remain #optimistic and struggling.

#degrowth
#lookUp

@japanskier I will not be surprised if in the near future some intrepid journalist discovers that these “#greenpeace activists” are actually an #astroturfing #propaganda front group financed by the #fossilfuels power industry.

No surprise at all.

They’ve done this before & they’ll do it again.

#astroturf #energy #oligarchy #energy #renewables #climatechange #globalheating

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/29/young-climate-activist-tells-greenpeace-to-drop-old-fashioned-anti-nuclear-stance