Well start with raising on the rich and corporations and then see where you are at. But the us debt is just a boogie man. It only matters when the dems are in power. Just like their other old reliables like the border and crime.
Very true but the debt is still a big issue. Republicans cut taxes and increase spending just like the dems undo those tax cuts and increase spending even more. The dems voters just don’t care about it. The conservative voters care but the GOP ignores it when they are in power. Both sides ignore their parties hypocrisies and exploit the others when it’s convenient. It just seems to me people doesn’t think the US can go bankrupt but it’s happened many times over the years. Guess we will see
But there’s no evidence that our current borrowing is actually a problem. The country keeps growing and growing. The deficient is usually smaller under democrat presidents lol
I mean the British pound is a pretty good example of a first world empire almost going bankrupt from borrowing to much.
Higher taxes actually pressure businesses to invest in their company/employees/innovation and not just do stock buybacks 🙃🙃🙃
I’ll have to look into that. I doubt if that’s true that’s all it’ll take but guess we will never see 🧑🦯
Just think about it. You don’t pay taxes on business expenses. You pay it on profit
Sure but one could also argue that with the SEC so heavily favoring investor’s safety it’s a better business plan to buy back stock for your investors than reinvest all that money back into your business. The risk/reward when your a company is huge is much better that way. Plus with the fed keeping interest rates so low for so long it helped incentivize that behavior. Though that’s spit balling bc I haven’t looked into stock buy backs much
Except the major stock owners are usually the people running the business so they are just taking the companies money and then storing it for personal use.
Just a quick Google search of apple meta Google Amazon and Tesla shows the people running the company actually own less than a couple of percents. Besides bezos and Elon who technically arnt ceo anymore, black rock and vanguard are the principal share holders in most. Not saying they don’t have a say in the buybacks but I can’t find where the people running the company make the most from the buybacks. Unless I’m missing something. Definitely not an expert in anything
The board is controlled by the largest shareholders. The board hires the CEO. CEO and executive pay is largely stocks. Buy backs can drive stock price up.
Ah that’s a fair argument
It’s a guess but you can do the math on flat funding. Also don’t we only get the 1.6% if we get a January raise? The one thing that doesn’t make sense is that they will still have to negotiate a budget for the fall won’t they? Or does this bill say the budget is automatically passed at this years level.
No, this isn't what the union should be trying to figure out, and you obviously have a very distorted image in your head of what the union's role and purpose is.
Please feel free to elaborate on what their role and purpose is.
Updating on what's going on with congress is very different from "doing something about it"!
Not wrong about reading the constitution because I’ve skimmed it and can’t say I’m a constitutional expert by any means, but the preamble states roughly to advance working conditions through political action…which I would argue the govt defaulting and not paying/hiring anymore would greatly effect our working conditions. I never said they should be passing the laws or anything just merely giving us updates on what to expect/or not to expect
