https://investors.yum.com/news-events/financial-releases/news-details/2023/Yum-Brands-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-Results-and-Increases-Dividend/default.aspx

We repurchased 10 million shares totaling $1.2 billion at an average price per share of $119.

They are just greedy. They have the money, but giving the money to the rich is evidently more important.

https://cwa-union.org/stock-buybacks-hurt-workers

They are barely able to handle the fact that we are supposed to be a democracy in the first place.

I am not suggesting that a land tax is the only part of fixing the billionare problem.

I’m 50/50 on whether it will ever be possible for the U.S. to fix the problem of money being a part of politics without a straight up 2nd revolution.

As for your “hands in pockets” thing, we are running a deficit every fucking time. That needs fixed. We can’t just not solve it.

Trump was the last one to screw with high income tax earners with the salt limit

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/19/571754894/charts-see-how-much-of-gop-tax-cuts-will-go-to-the-middle-class

https://www.investopedia.com/taxes/trumps-tax-reform-plan-explained/

“The overhaul was forecast to raise the federal deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars—the Congressional Budget Office estimating $1.9 trillion—over the coming decade.”

“For the wealthy, banks, and other corporations, the tax reform package was considered a lopsided victory given its significant and permanent tax cuts to corporate profits, investment income, estate tax, and more. Financial services companies stood to see huge gains based on the new, lower corporate rate (21%), as well as the more preferable tax treatment of pass-through companies.3 Some banks said their effective tax rate would drop under 21%.”

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/tcja-2-years-later-corporations-not-workers-big-winners/

Fuck em. There is no such thing as an ethical billionaire. There is no way to get that type of money without fucking other people over.

This should be done as a land tax IMO, but whatever.

It’s crazy how many incriminating things he’s been caught doing. One would think that the party of “law and order” would have done something to stop him.

So which is it. Goal post move or goal post move

How about you instead focus on something that actually matters:

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4369951-young-voters-right-now-prefer-biden-poll/

Young voters overwhelmingly say they would support President Biden over former President Trump in a hypothetical head-to-head match-up if the 2024 presidential election were held today, according to a poll released Wednesday.

In the Economist/YouGov poll — conducted via web-based interviews Dec. 16-18 — more than half (53 percent) of registered voters under 30 said they would support Biden, and less than a quarter (24 percent) said they would support Trump.

Another 10 percent said they would support another candidate, 4 percent said they were not sure, and 9 percent said they wouldn’t vote.

The younger generations are voting more and more. And they are seeing through the bullshit.

Then why are talking about money?

Because a school needs money to operate. There is a minimum amount of money it takes to operate a school. Taking money away from an already struggling school will just make things worse.

You said the were siphoning off money which isn’t true

So then where is the money coming from? The government’s budget is a zero sum game.

That’s not the claim though. Quit trying to move the goal posts.