Minority Staff Director for Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Ranking Member @SenSanders Blatantly Pro-Union AKA: Chief of Receipts
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If Bernie's 5% annual wealth tax on billionaires had been enacted in 2012, Elon Musk would be worth less than $365 billion instead of the $834 billion that he's worth today. He'd still be the wealthiest man alive & every senior would have dental, vision & hearing under Medicare.
BREAKING: Today Bernie Sanders is proposing a bill to raise $4.4 trillion in taxes from America’s billionaires — a move that would virtually cut their massive fortunes in half.
A chunk of the money would go toward sending a $3K stimulus check to every person earning under $150K.
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Average Weekly Wages
1973: $873
2022: $813
Median Home
1973: $30,200
2022: $433,100
Monthly Rent
1973: $108
2022: $2,002
Tuition and Fees at University of California
1973: $150
2022: $13,104
Boomer: But why can't the slackers pay for college & pay off their loans like we did?
Community note
The source that Gunnells links in the follow-up tweet shows his earnings figures are already adjusted for inflation, but none of the other prices are. When you do a fair comparison by not adjusting earnings for inflation, they were $153.14 in July 1973 and $937.38 in July 2022.
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Netanyahu: I need $6 billion more
Trump: Approved
Argentina: We need $20 billion
Trump: Approved
Musk: SpaceX needs $5.9 billion
Trump: Approved
Bezos: Amazon needs $16 billion
Trump: Approved
Average Joe: My wife got cancer. I lost my job. Can we get Medicaid?
Trump: Denied
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If Bernie’s Social Security bill was enacted in 2021, Musk would have paid $2.9 billion more in taxes, Social Security would’ve been solvent for 75 years, benefits would’ve increased by $2,400 & 93% of Americans would have paid Zero more in taxes. The only one “entitled” is Musk.
Elon Musk suggests he wants to cut “500 billion dollars” from programs like Social Security and Medicare, calling them “entitlements”
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Elon Musk Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2025: $486 billion
Larry Ellison Wealth
2009: $23 billion
2025: $370 billion
Mark Zuckerberg Wealth
2008: $1.5 billion
2025: $245 billion
Jeff Bezos Wealth
1998: $1.6 billion
2025: $233 billion
Minimum Wage
2009: $7.25
2025: $7.25
Obscene
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Oh, Canada!
Life expectancy
🇨🇦: 82.6
🇺🇸: 78.4
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
🇨🇦: 3.7
🇺🇸: 5.2
Yearly deaths from lack of health insurance
🇺🇸: 68,000
🇨🇦: 0
Ozempic's Price
🇺🇸: $998
🇨🇦: $155
Uninsured/Underinsured
🇺🇸: 85 million
🇨🇦: 0
Admin Costs Per Capita
🇺🇸: $1,055
🇨🇦: $196
Trump: "I would love to see Canada be the 51st state. The Canadians citizens, if that happened ... they'd have much better health coverage."
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Welcome to the Divided States of Oligarchy:
Elon Musk Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2025: $449 billion
Jeff Bezos Wealth
2012: $18 billion
2025: $245 billion
Mark Zuckerberg Wealth
2012: $44 billion
2025: $217 billion
Federal Minimum Wage
2009: $7.25 an hour
2025: $7.25 an hour
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5,054,662
Elon Musk: I need $1.5 billion or SpaceX will go broke
Feds: Approved
Intel CEO: We need $76 billion or we're moving to Asia
Feds: Approved (Intel cuts jobs)
United CEO: Airlines need $54 billion
Feds: Approved
Average Joe: My wife got cancer. Can we get Medicare?
Feds: Denied
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Oil prices today: $115.83 a barrel
Gas prices today: $5.01 a gallon
Oil prices in April of 2008: $116.50
Gas prices in April of 2008: $3.51 a gallon
Gas prices are $1.50 a gallon higher than they should be because of the greed of big oil. It's time for a windfall profits tax.
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Elon Musk: I need $1.5 billion or SpaceX will go broke
Feds: Approved
Lloyd Blankfein: I need $824 billion for Goldman Sachs
Feds: Approved
Charles Koch: I need a $1.4 billion tax break
Feds: Approved
Average Joe: My wife got cancer. Can we get Medicare?
Feds: We're bankrupt
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Dollar Tree made $1,230,000,000 in profits this year, gave its CEO $10,767,883 and pays workers as little as $8.32 an hour. Over 7,400 Dollar Tree employees are forced to rely on food stamps and Medicaid subsidized by U.S. taxpayers. Cite the damn corporate greed.
Dollar Tree raises price point to $1.25, citing inflation. nbcnews.to/3r58ry3
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Jeff Bezos, worth $240 billion, sailed on his $500 million yacht to a $55 million wedding in Venice to give his wife a $5 million ring & spends $12.7 million on union busting so he can replace workers with robots.
His tax rate: 1.1%.
5 words: Tax billionaires out of existence.
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Elon Musk Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2024: $447 billion
Jeff Bezos Wealth
2012: $18 billion
2024: $249 billion
Mark Zuckerberg Wealth
2012: $44 billion
2024: $224 billion
Federal Minimum Wage
2009: $7.25 an hour
2024: $7.25 an hour
5 words: Tax billionaires out of existence
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Your daily reminder that Medicare for All would save 68,000 lives and $650 billion dollars each and every year, per Yale and the Republican Director of the Congressional Budget Office.
Justin Trudeau says to Stephen Colbert: "It would be a lot easier if you guys had universal health care."
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Number of people who go bankrupt due to medical debt each year by country:
🇩🇪:0
🇫🇷:0
🇬🇧:0
🇦🇺:0
🇨🇦:0
🇯🇵:0
🇮🇪:0
🇪🇸:0
🇮🇹:0
🇵🇹:0
🇩🇰:0
🇸🇪:0
🇳🇱:0
🇮🇸:0
🇺🇸: 530,000
We could cancel medical debt for pennies on the dollar. Instead we're bailing out Argentina to the tune of $20 billion.
More than 100 million people in America — 41% of adults — are saddled with medical bills they can't pay.
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Elon Musk Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2022: $221 billion
Jeff Bezos Wealth
2012: $18 billion
2022: $134 billion
Warren Buffett Wealth
2012: $44 billion
2022: $101 billion
Federal Minimum Wage
2009: $7.25 an hour
2022: $7.25 an hour
5 words: Tax billionaires out of existence
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If Bernie’s Social Security bill is signed into law, Social Security would be solvent for 75 years, benefits would go up by $2,400, 91% of Americans would not pay a penny more in taxes and the wealthy would finally pay their fair share by scrapping the cap on all taxable income.
Social Security's trust fund is on track to be depleted by 2034, new report says. cbsn.ws/4jYiXzg
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Mark Zuckerberg's wealth in 2009: $2 billion
Mark Zuckerberg's wealth today: $181 billion
Minimum wage in 2009: $7.25/hour
Minimum wage today: $7.25/hour
Tipped minimum wage in 1991: $2.13/hour
Tipped minimum wage today: $2.13/hour
Oligarchs are just as dangerous as monarchs
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This is what oligarchy looks like: Jeff Bezos, the 3rd richest man in the world worth $231 billion, can afford to sail into Venice on his $500 million yacht for his $20 million, 3-day wedding to give his bride a $5 million ring because his real tax rate is 1.1%. Tax the rich!
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No. The problem is not that the working-class got a $1,400 direct payment 19 months ago and the dude at Arby's got a 50 cent raise a year ago. The problem is that corporations are making record profits by jacking up the price of everything. The problem is corporate greed, boss.
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Reminder: If Bernie's Social Security bill was signed into law, Social Security would be solvent for the next 75 years, benefits would go up by $2,400 & the bottom 91% of Americans would not pay a penny more in taxes.
Instead, Republicans want you to work until you drop dead.
BREAKING: Trump administration considers raising retirement age to save Social Security from insolvency, per FOX
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Dude, Tesla would have gone BANKRUPT without $456 million from the government.
SpaceX would have gone BANKRUPT without $1.6 billion from the government.
Elon Musk would be worth $0 without $38 billion from the government.
Elon isn’t exposing fraud. He’s committing fraud.
Musk: If a commercial company operated the way the federal government does, then it would be -- immediately go bankrupt. It would be delisted. The officers would be arrested
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The Walton family, that inherited half of Walmart’s stock and is now worth over $400 billion, should not be allowed to pay wages so low that their workers are forced to rely on food stamps to survive. And yet, Walmart is the largest employer of workers on food stamps in America.
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The biggest welfare recipient in America is the richest family in America, the Walton family, who inherited Walmart, never have to work a day in their lives & are worth $354 billion by paying wages so low that many Walmart workers rely on food stamps, Medicaid & public housing.
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Elon Musk, the richest man alive, worth $359.4 billion, wants you to work until you drop dead. Social Security was signed into law 90 years ago. It has paid every benefit owed to every eligible American on time for 86 years & lifts over 20 million people out of poverty a year.
BREAKING: Elon Musk called Social Security "the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time" in an interview with Joe Rogan.
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Elon Musk: I need $18 billion
Feds: Approved
Top 1%: We need a $1.1 trillion tax break
Feds: No problem
Jamie Dimon: I need a $416 billion bailout
Feds: Approved
Pentagon: We need $1 trillion
Feds: No problem
Average Joe: My wife got cancer. Can we get Medicare?
Feds: Denied
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The problem is not the dude who got a $1,400 check 7 months ago and a 75 cent raise at Arby's. The problem is 745 billionaires who became $2,000,000,000,000 during the pandemic while over half of U.S. workers still live paycheck to paycheck.
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Elon Musk became $32,600,000,000 richer TODAY and $279,000,000,000 richer during the pandemic, but the corporate media tells us inflation is soaring because some dude at Taco Bell got a 50 cent raise last week and a $1,400 check 10 months ago. Never lose your sense of outrage.
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Can't stop thinking about the U.S Olympic athletes who said instead of going to Disneyland they were going to see a dentist in France for free because the U.S is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee healthcare for all as a fundamental human right.
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Jeff Bezos became $10,500,000,000 richer today
He's now worth $164,000,000,000
Amazon is a $1,430,000,000,000 company
OSHA has recommended a $15,625 fine on Amazon for exposing workers to serious physical harm & denying medical care.
Our health & safety laws are a cruel joke.
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Corporate greed is Chipotle nearly doubling the price of a Burrito to $12.30 & quadrupling profits to $1.23 billion in the past decade while giving its CEO $22.5 million last year & setting aside $2 billion for stock buybacks this year. Don’t cite inflation. Cite the damn greed.
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Mark Cuban: Bailout Silicon Valley Bank TONIGHT
Feds: Approved
Lloyd Blankfein: Goldman Sachs needs $824 billion
Feds: Approved
Jamie Dimon: JPMorganChase needs $416 billion
Feds: Approved
Average Joe: My wife got cancer. Can we get Medicare?
Feds: We're broke.
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Hate to break it to you, dude, but a Big Mac costs $5.07 in Australia - 62 cents cheaper than it costs in the United States - while every McDonald’s worker in Australia is entitled to a minimum wage of $15.89 an hour and health insurance under its Medicare for All system.
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U.S. oligarchs:
Elon Musk Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2022: $266 billion
Jeff Bezos Wealth
2012: $18 billion
2022: $180 billion
Bill Gates Wealth
2012: $61 billion
2022: $133 billion
Warren Buffett Wealth
2012: $44 billion
2022: $125 billion
Minimum Wage
2009: $7.25
2022: $7.25
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March 2008
Gas: $3.23 a gallon
Oil: $104.54 a barrel
March 2022
Gas: $4.32 a gallon
Oil: $95.75 a barrel
Don't cite inflation. Cite the damn corporate greed.
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When Cuomo was Governor he gave Elon Musk $959 million in corporate welfare for a total boondoggle & charged Musk’s company $1 a year in rent.
$1 a year for rent.
And they say that Mamdani’s $700 million plan for free buses & a rent freeze is radical.
Hilarious.
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Funny. I don't recall Mamdani ever receiving $959 million in corporate welfare from the taxpayers of New York for a 1.2 million square foot facility and being charged just $1 a year for rent. Who could that be? Oh, yeah, it was Elon Musk, the richest man alive worth $500 billion.
Rogan, talking about Zohran Mamdani: "What else has he done that makes him a swindler?"
Musk: " Um, well, I, I guess if you say, uh, what I mean, if you, if say, if you say..."
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If Bernie’s Pay Teachers Act was signed into law, the minimum salary for teachers would be $60,000 a year, the minimum wage for school staff would be $30 an hour, teachers would receive $1,000 for school supplies & it would cost much less than Trump’s tax breaks for the top 1%.
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If you paid $2.50 for a pack of gum at Target, you paid more to Target than it paid in taxes in 2022 while it made over $2 billion in profits and paid its CEO over $34 million in compensation. This is what a corrupt and rigged tax code looks like.
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But wait. I was told that Jeff Bezos, the 2nd richest man in America worth $211 billion, had no say in the editorial decisions of the Washington Post when it ran 16 negative Bernie Sanders headlines in 16 hours during his run for President in 2016. This can't possibly be true.
Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris, paper reports cnbc.com/2024/10/25/jeff-bez…
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Corporate greed is DuPont making $1.62 billion in profits this year, spending $1 billion on stock buybacks, paying its CEO $20 million & being fined just $480,000 for the release of a chemical that causes leukemia.
It costs $508,250 to treat just 1 kid with leukemia in America.
DuPont plant in Louisiana fined $480,000 for release of cancer-causing chemical theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/…
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Can’t stop thinking about how the owner of the Rams worth $12.5 billion was able to receive a $100 million tax break to build a $5 billion stadium named after a student loan company while 45 million Americans owe $1.8 trillion in student debt and 600,000 are homeless. #SuperBowl
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A reminder: Bernie's bill to apply payroll taxes on income above $250,000 a year would extend Social Security's solvency for 75 years, expand Social Security benefits by $2,400 a year & not raise taxes by 1 penny on the bottom 93% of Americans, per Social Security Administration.
Donald Trump's campaign pledges would hasten the insolvency of the Social Security trust fund and lead to a 33% across-the-board cut to all benefits, according to a new analysis. cbsn.ws/4feozDg
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Jonas Salk, inventor of polio vaccine: "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?"
Frederick Banting, inventor of insulin: "Insulin does not belong to me. It belongs to the world."
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel: 400% price hike on COVID vaccine is "consistent with the value."
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This man did not show up on the floor of the Senate one time this week to demand a vote on a $2k direct payment. Not a single damn time. Now, the Congress has ended and it looks like the first time a bill can be introduced is 20 days from now. Thanks for a whole lot of nothing.
With all due respect to my Republican colleagues, a $2k direct payment for individuals and families who are struggling is not socialism.
In my view it is necessary in the times in which we live.
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Today would be a very good day to cancel the student debt of more than 40 million Americans. Every last penny.
The Supreme Court says cancelling student debt is illegal. The Supreme Court also now says the President is immune for Official Acts. You see where I'm going with this Joe?
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Class warfare at its ugliest:
Boeing’s former CEO gets up to $58.5 million after 346 passengers died on his watch.
Bloomberg - worth $54 billion - used prison labor on his campaign.
The Walton family – worth over $200 billion - denied holiday pay to its $11 an hour workers.
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When Tesla was on the verge of bankruptcy, Musk got $465 million from the feds.
When SpaceX was on the verge of bankruptcy, Musk won a $1.6 billion contract from NASA.
When the average Joe gets diagnosed with cancer he has a 42% chance of going bankrupt.
That must change.
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92% want Medicare to cover dental, vision & hearing
90% want Medicare to expand drug price negotiations
81% want to forgive medical debt
78% want to expand Social Security
76% want a $17/hour minimum wage
70% support the PRO Act
These ain't far left ideas. They are POPULAR!
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Bernie introduced the Pay Teachers Act today to:
-Require a $60,000 minimum teacher salary
-Mandate a $30/hour minimum wage for school staff
-Triple Title I funding
-Give teachers $1,000 for class supplies
The cost? $450 billion
Cost of Trump's tax breaks for the 1%? $1 trillion
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Qatar: We need ID Air Force Base
Trump: Approved
Argentina: We need $20 billion
Trump: Approved
Musk: SpaceX needs $5.9 billion
Trump: Approved
Larry Ellison: I need CBS
Trump: Approved
Average Joe: I lost my job. My wife got cancer. Can we get Medicaid?
Trump: Denied
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They say the Green New Deal is expensive. Compared to what???
🚨 Horrifying videos of Malibu, California, reveal the intensity of the Palisades Fire 🔥
It’s out of control ‼️ No containment.
Streets are filled with firefighters battling a 3,000-acre wildfire that is ravaging expensive homes costing $4.5m on average
#PasadenaFire
Video: Ian Miles Cheong
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The problem is not the poor kid who gets $6 a day in food stamps.
The problem is the Walton family, worth $469 billion, & Jeff Bezos, worth $247 billion pay wages so low that their workers need food stamps.
The real welfare queens are the billionaires who pay starvation wages.
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The inventors of insulin sold their patents for $1 in 1923 - almost 100 years ago. It is a crime against humanity that insulin is made by corporations that care only about maximizing profits, not saving lives. Insulin should cost $0.
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Senate votes:
78-17 for a $10 billion bailout to Jeff Bezos
90-5 for a $125 billion corporate tax break
87-6 for $53 billion to corporate outsourcers
88-11 for $780 billion to war profiteers
58-42 against a $15 minimum wage
Welcome to the United States of Oligarchy.
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Rep. Kelly had $987,237 in PPP loans forgiven for himself, voted to hand out over $1 trillion in tax breaks to profitable corporations and the top 1% and voted to give $886 billion to the bloated Pentagon with ZERO offsets.
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The 10 wealthiest people in the world now own $1,231,500,000,000 in wealth. They became $30,390,000,000 richer yesterday alone. 9 of them live in America - which has not raised the $7.25 an hour federal minimum wage in over 12 years. Never lose your sense of outrage.
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Something extremely bogus is going on. During the pandemic, Elon Musk became $78.5 billion richer while forcing his workers to take a 10% pay cut and firing employees after promising them they could take unpaid time off. Oligarchs gotta oligarch.
Something extremely bogus is going on. Was tested for covid four times today. Two tests came back negative, two came back positive. Same machine, same test, same nurse. Rapid antigen test from BD.
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By refusing to extend the $300 a month Child Tax Credit, Joe Mansion caused the child poverty rate to go from 5.2% to 12.4%. He represented 1 of the poorest states & is now a Wall Street lobbyist. The Democrats lost the working class because of Wall Street “Democrats” like him.
🚨NEW: Joe Manchin: "I was a Democrat all my life. They better figure out how they lost people like me."
"When you quit worrying about the working person, their working conditions — you're worried more about a person that's able-bodied and capable of working that won't work, versus me, who will work — there's something wrong!"
BILL MAHER CROWD: *APPLAUDS*
@DailyCaller
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Can't stop thinking about how Starbucks can afford to give its new CEO $113 million & a private jet, a $10.6 million golden parachute to its departing CEO & a $60 million golden parachute to the CEO who left in 2022, but still can't sign a first contract with its union workers.
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Bill Gates could pay the entire $25 billion needed to vaccinate low- and middle-income countries globally and he would still be $31.5 billion richer than he was before the pandemic. Greed is a terrible addiction that must be cured by taxing the rich and ending drug monopolies.
Bill Gates says no to sharing vaccine formulas with global poor to end pandemic ift.tt/3dQa7EB
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Does paying a lower tax rate on $500,000 in dividends from coal stocks than a registered nurse who makes $80,000 a year represent an entitlement society?
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100% of the doctors at Walter Reed are paid by the government.
100% of the employees at Walter Reed are paid by the government.
Walter Reed is 100% government-run, socialized healthcare.
That type of care should be available to every American as a right, not just the president
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72% want a "government-run healthcare plan"
Florida voted for a $15 minimum wage
SD, AZ & NJ voted to legalize weed
CO voted for 12 weeks of paid family & medical leave
It turns out a progressive agenda is what the American people want. But yeah, blame "socialism." Pathetic
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Jeff Bezos became $533 million richer on Monday
He's now worth $211 billion
Amazon is a $2 trillion company
45% of Amazon workers get injured on Prime Day
53% of Amazon workers are food insecure
They don't need a "thank you" bag
They need a union
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Canceling all student debt would:
⬆️jobs by 4.4 million over the first 5 years
⬆️home ownership by 300,000 a year
⬆️GDP by up to $108 billion a year
⬇️the racial wealth gap from 12:1 to 5:1
1 person has the ability to cancel all student debt: President Biden. Let's get it done.
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The 4 co-founders of Uber and Lyft who are worth over $7.5 billion combined are opposed to a minimum wage of $1.40 a mile for drivers who made them obscenely rich. That’s corporate greed at its ugliest.
Lyft and Uber threatened to stop doing business in Minneapolis after the city council adopted a new rule that would set a minimum wage for rideshare drivers cnn.it/3P2I1ZI
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Republicans: If Mamdani builds a few public grocery stores, there will be breadlines all over the city.
Reality: The only two times we’ve had actual breadlines in America in recent history was during the presidency of Donald Trump.
Wow. Thousands of furloughed federal workers lined up in Maryland today to get food. Remember the last time we saw something like this? Yeah, Trump was president then, too.
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The problem is not the mythical 35-year old playing video games in his parent’s basement collecting Medicaid & $6 a day in food stamps.
The problem is over the last 50 years $79 trillion in wealth has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top 1%.
That’s trillion with a t
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Funny. Because I'll never forget that you'd be worth ZERO without billions in corporate welfare while paying ZERO in federal income tax in 2018 & becoming $260 billion richer during the pandemic. Yes. Elon l-o-v-e-s corporate socialism for himself, rugged capitalism for the rest.
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Boeing's outgoing CEO will receive a $45 million retirement package. The CEO before him received a $62 million golden parachute after 346 passengers died on his watch. If you're a CEO of a big corporation, it doesn't matter how much you fail. You will still walk away filthy rich.
BREAKING: Tire on Boeing 757 explodes during maintenance at Atlanta airport, killing 2 Delta employees
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Democrats came within 2 votes of:
Expanding Medicare to cover dental, vision, hearing
Extending $300 a month Child Tax Credit
Capping childcare costs at 7% of income
Free Community College
Trump came within 1 vote of repealing the Affordable Care Act
Elections have consequences
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Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder and largest shareholder, became $2,140,000,000 richer YESTERDAY.
He owns $186,000,000,000 in wealth.
Amazon is a $1,640,000,000,000 company.
This is what a rigged and corrupt system looks like.
Mississippi has approved bills to give Amazon a 10-year, 100% corporate tax exemption, plus 30 years of state tax exemptions.
Lawmakers also set aside $44 million to help fund Amazon's latest project in the state.
Mississippi has the highest poverty rate in America.
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Millionaires and billionaires are failing to pay $150 billion a year in taxes that they legally owe-more than enough to make every public college and university tuition free. This is what happens when oligarchs rule the government.
BREAKING: Trump's Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt just said: “The government can and will collect defaulted federal student loan debt by withholding tax refunds, federal pensions, and even their wages.”
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Social Security isn't going broke. The 25% of seniors living on less than $15,000 a year are. If we ended the absurdity of billionaires paying the same amount into Social Security as those who make $168,000 we could expand benefits by $2,400 a year & extend solvency for 75 years.
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Elon Musk Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2023: $234.3 billion
Mark Zuckerberg Wealth
2009: $2 billion
2023: $105 billion
Federal Minimum Wage
2009: $7.25
2023: $7.25
The cage match we should pay attention to is the one the billionaire class is waging against the working class.
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg agree to hold cage fight bbc.in/43SLXkE
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Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, increased his wealth by $87 billion in just 9 months. He is denying his workers paid sick leave, hazard pay and the right to form a union. And now his paper thinks you should not get a $2,000 survival check. Yeah. Big surprise.
Why increasing the stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000 is a bad idea, the Editorial Board writes.
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If we were truly patriotic we’d raise the minimum wage to $17.76 an hour and increase taxes on the billionaire class by 1776%.
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Corporate greed is Waffle House chairman, Joe Rogers Jr, worth $1.7 billion, paying Waffle House waitresses as little as $2.13 an hour & then taking $3 out of their paychecks for each on-shift meal whether they end up eating it or not. Waffle House is a $4 billion corporation.
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Deloitte: The cost of climate inaction will cost the global economy $178 trillion by 2070. That's trillion with a t.
"Joe Manchin saved US taxpayers $300 billion by rejecting bad climate policy" (@TheHillOpinion) trib.al/yhzoDsf
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If Bernie's Social Security bill was signed into law in 2022, Elon Musk would have paid $2.9 billion more in taxes, no one making $250,000 or less would've paid a penny more in taxes, benefits would have gone up by $2,400 a year & Social Security would be solvent for 75 years.
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In the past DAY, the 8 richest men in🇺🇸⬆️their wealth by $6.2B:
Mark Zuckerberg:⬆️$1.08B
Larry Page:⬆️$956M
Bill Gates:⬆️$931M
Sergey Brin:⬆️919M
Jeff Bezos:⬆️$907M
Larry Ellison:⬆️$634M
Warren Buffett:⬆️$429M
Steve Ballmer:⬆️$353M
Combined wealth: $653.8B
While 33M+ lost jobs
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If you pay $75 a month for a T-Mobile cell phone plan, you paid more to T-Mobile than it paid in federal income taxes in 2022 after making $3 billion in profits. This is what a rigged and corrupt tax code looks like.
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Bernie’s bill to apply the payroll tax on all income above $250,000 a year would extend the solvency of Social Security for over 75 years, expand Social Security benefits by $2,400 a year and not raise taxes by one penny on the bottom 93 percent of Americans.
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A reminder: Bernie’s bill would make Social Security solvent for 75 years, expand benefits by $2,400 & not raise taxes on 91% of Americans who make less than $250,000 a year.
But instead billionaires turn into trillionaires while 22% of seniors receive less than $15,000 a year.
7 out of 10 Americans are worried that Social Security will not be there for them when they retire, per Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies.
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Today, is a good day to remember that Trump would veto a $15 minimum wage & legislation making it easier for McDonald's workers to join unions. In Denmark, where they have strong unions, the minimum wage is $22 and a Big Mac is 3 cents cheaper. Welcome to corporate greed, boss.
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While Jeff Bezos is worth $230 billion, Amazon pays wages so low that thousands of his workers are forced to survive on food stamps, Medicaid & public housing.
In other words, your taxpayer dollars subsidized his $500 million yacht.
Yes. Jeff Bezos is the real welfare queen:
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The real looting in America is Stephen Schwarzman (the CEO of Blackstone the largest landlord in America) becoming more than $40 billion richer in the past decade, jacking-up rent by up to 79%, evicting thousands & spending over $14 million to oppose rent control in California.
Rents likely to balloon in wake of L.A. wildfires, experts say latimes.com/homeless-housing…
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Marijuana should be legal. All marijuana-related convictions must be vacated and expunged. Revenue from legalized marijuana must be reinvested in communities hit hardest by the war on drugs, not large corporations. Pass. It. On.
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Bernie on the Senate floor today:
- Ban tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets
- Pass Paycheck Security Act
- Pass $2K monthly payments
- Empower Medicare to pay the medical bills of all patients
- End qualified immunity
- strip federal funds from police violating civil rights
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Jonas Salk, inventor of polio vaccine: "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?"
Frederick Banting, inventor of insulin: "Insulin does not belong to me. It belongs to the world."
Bristol Myers CEO: The $7,100 price of Eliquis in the US is "consistent with the value."
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Since Election Day, the 4 wealthiest men in the world (Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg & Jeff Bezos) have become $248 billion richer and are now worth $1.211 trillion.
The $7.25 federal minimum wage hasn’t gone up in 16 years.
Yes. That’s what oligarchy looks like.
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Corporate greed is Kroger giving its CEO a $6.4 million salary increase during the pandemic (a 45% pay raise) while slashing the pay of average grocery store workers by $2,000 (an 8% pay cut) when most of its workers live in poverty. End this greed. Support the Kroger strike!
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The inventors of insulin sold their patents for $1 in 1923 - almost 100 years ago. It is a crime against humanity that insulin is made by corporations that care only about maximizing profits, not saving lives. Yes. The fake Eli Lilly account was right. Insulin should be free.
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If we do nothing, it can pay 100% of benefits until 2035 & 83% after that. If we passed Bernie’s Social Security bill to scrap the cap, it will be solvent for 75 years, benefits will go up by $2,400 and 91% won’t pay a penny more in taxes you greedy South African billionaire.
When will social security run out of money, if nothing is fixed?
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If Bernie's Social Security bill was signed into law last year, Elon Musk would have paid $2.9 billion more in taxes, no one making $250,000 or less would've paid a penny more in taxes, benefits would have gone up by $2,400 a year & Social Security would be solvent for 75 years.
Manchin on CNN says there should be no cuts to those now getting Social Security & Medicare, and rejects idea of raising the SS retirement age. He instead suggests raising the taxable wage cap for employees paying into the program.
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I want cable news to cover the child poverty rate in America going up 41% last month, Starbucks illegally firing pro-union workers, the existential threat of climate change and 745 oligarchs in America becoming $2.1 trillion richer during the pandemic as much as it covers war.
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Every time Elon Musk pretends that he is a self-made billionaire, remember that his companies wouldn't exist without $4.9 billion in corporate welfare. Bernie is right. Elon is a hypocrite. #TaxElonMusk
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