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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf you paid $1 in federal income taxes, you paid more than:
Tesla in 2024-2025 & 2018-2022
SpaceX in 2002-2025
Palantir in 2023-2025
AT&T in 2021
Nike in 2020
FedEx in 2020
Amazon in 2017-2018
Elon Musk in 2018
Jeff Bezos in 2007 & 2011
Tax the damn rich & large corporations.
I'm tired of carrying these mutts.
~Warren Gunnels
https://xcancel.com/GunnelsWarren/status/2024923947666395590#m
OldBaldy1701E
(10,818 posts)paleotn
(21,923 posts)Scrivener7
(59,063 posts)They have been saying this forever as far as I can tell. They never move away, even after taxes are raised on everyone.
Bengus81
(9,998 posts)BComplex
(9,828 posts)Oh noes!!!!
twodogsbarking
(18,185 posts)chouchou
(3,008 posts)D_Master81
(2,434 posts)The amount of corporate welfare in America is insane. The amount of government contracts and tax abatements that these companies probably received on top of this as well. Every time they build something they get an abatement
Stargazer99
(3,504 posts)and you think prices will go down? Suckers and losers are well trained the corps have nothing to fear
Igel
(37,464 posts)and can both confirm that the tariffs were charged and paid, using valid documentation, would be reimbursed.
Those companies with staff and record-keeping systems to preserve that information and complete the relevant federal application(s) would be the ones reimbursed. You buy a bookcase at Walmart, who got it from a middle man who got it from the importer will not have the documentation showing exactly when and where they paid the federal government the tariff money (because, well, they didn't--they'd have paid Walmart who paid somebody else who paid another person who paid Customs).
Stargazer99
(3,504 posts)Might be worth looking into? The powers that be have you tormenting the poor and homeless as the problem -you are well trained
Mr.Bee
(1,735 posts)there's 1% of them 99% of you.
So you can just pay their tax burden! Worked for 45 years!
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