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.

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.

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.

Nobody is intentionally increasing crime

Republicans and people like you are trying to destroy education. And that leads to higher crime rates.

So ultimately you’re saying you want higher crime rates.

we just keep them incarcerated.

How very freedom. We are number one in prisoners per capita. Land of the Free my ass.

Any system that intentionally increases crime, prisoners per capita, and cost is a bad system. There are alternatives that reduce all three. But it requires everyone investing in education.

I distrust that citation because they rate CNN as mostly factual

CNN is atrocious for bias, but at least in comparison to say fox news, they’re much more factual. Far, far from perfect, but significantly better.

I would point you to the study they cited, and in turn the publicly available census data instead.)

And that’s fine. But that’s not what a link to fox news is.

I see that in Oregon as well, moving here because they destroyed California with their politics. My concern is they will move like locusts consuming all the resources and leaving a wasteland behind like they did in California. I can already see where they are starting to do that in Oregon.

This is emotionally loaded, misleading, and just silly.

And anybody could just as easily claim Texas has been destroyed by their politics. It’s just a meaningless statement.

The local communities can vote a tax in.

I already addressed that:

“On top of that, marginalized demographics do not have the generational wealth required to get better jobs, meaning they can’t bear the burden.”

It’s not my job to pay another schools upkeep. I

I can’t fathom why somebody would want higher crime rates. Failing to educate the public leads to higher crime rates.

Republicans truly are the party of crime.

The only good news source to such folks is that which parrots their ideology.

Anything else is “far right” or “biased”.

No, thats not the case. To paraphrase, it’s because fox News has been peddling conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, propaganda, has used poor sources, and has failed numerous fact checks:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/fox-news-bias/

If you want a good source, go to AP news, Reuters, the hill, BBC, etc. Fox News is a trash source.

This is why liberals look confused to people. They scream we want to be more like Europe then scream when we want to be more like Europe.

This is a strawman. Quit trying to put words in my mouth.

If a community is under funded then it’s that community fault.

Not really. There are housing developers and real estate orgs that intentionally destroy neighborhood housing value for their own profit. The lower house prices mean that local schools go underfunded because of how property tax is tied to school funding.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/systemic-inequality-displacement-exclusion-segregation/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbusting

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/blockbusting/

On top of that, marginalized demographics do not have the generational wealth required to get better jobs, meaning they can’t bear the burden.

Tax them more but don’t tax me to pay for other areas.

Fuck that. No school should be left behind because of some made up failure to pull up bootstraps that don’t exist.

Piss away your vote if you like, but I’m going to vote to keep society educated. I don’t want to live in a world of uneducated assholes, especially considering how big of a factor education is in crime rates.

At a minimum you guys could at least attempt to understand the argument.

https://www.alreporter.com/2023/09/21/opinion-school-choice-is-a-scam-designed-to-hurt-the-most-vulnerable-students/

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/alabama-political-reporter/

Tl;DR: “School choice” is as good for freedom as the Patriot Act was for privacy. It’s a bullshit label to cover for the fact that the actual policy ends up fucking over society by under funding already struggling schools and instead giving the money to corporations that already have too much power.

The reasonable response is to hold politicians accountable.

Enforcing the 14th amendment is not corruption.

Attempting to overthrow an election is an insurrection.

https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Chart-of-Past-14.3-Disqualifications-rev.-07.10.23.pdf

Hamas forfeited their position to complain about differing combatants and civilians when they chose to engage as irregular combatants.

Hamas isn’t the only group complaining about civilian deaths though, so this is a weird point to bring up that doesn’t really add anything to the conversation.

To that end, everyone who stays in combat areas when told to evacuate should be considered a combatant

Children are not combatants. Women (generally) are not combatants. Refugees are not combatants.

This is also a double standard, because Israel has been told for decades to leave. Does that make Israeli civilians combatants? No, obviously not.

Civilians should not be killed. Organizations that intentionally kill civilians are terrorists organizations, which includes both Hamas and Israel.

I do not accept your attempt to move the goal posts. Your claim was about whether conviction was necessary. It is not.