• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    Trickle down economics

    For the past 50 years they’ve tried to give the wealthy some money but no matter how much they gave the rich, only a little trickled down to the poor

    So they’ve decided to just turn on the money fire hose and shower the rich with all the money they can get their hands on … it’s a literal avalanche of money and hopefully this will trickle down and get some more money to the poor.

    For every million they send to a rich person, ten bucks goes to a street person … so we need to spend billions, trillions of dollars on these rich people in order to get enough money to people in need.

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      4 days ago

      If you got 10 bucks for every million towards billionaires you’d actually be a millionaire. The ratio was more like a cent for every million.

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        3 days ago

        I think they mean $999,990 goes to person A and $10 goes to person B.

        If you want to create one (1) millionaire that way you would need to spend $999,000,000,000. Imagine how that would look with 1 cent to every million.

        Are the two of you even talking about the same data? Maybe you spread the $10 over 1,000 people to get to that number of $0,01.

  • Anas@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Unrelated, is this a newer format on Twitter or are people manually recreating simple Twitter screenshots for some reason?

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    3 days ago

    You didn’t think they actually spent ten thousand dollars for a hammer and thirty thousand for a toilet seat, did you?

  • normalexit@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    With far fewer irs agents, they can’t effectively audit tax cheats.

    We are funding the complete destruction of Palestine.

    Golf is expensive.

    He’s been sued 220 times for the 100 days he has been in office. Lawyers are really expensive. (Well unless you blackmail them.)

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      1 hour ago

      Fun fact! Tariffs aren’t collected by the IRS, they’re collected by Customs and Border Protection, a sibling organization to ICE

  • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Goddamnit, I hate this shit. Its simple, folks. You have to spend money to make money. That’s how the saying goes, and that’s how the world works. When my car insurance goes up despite my flawless driving record, I don’t ask them to explain where the money is going, I just pay my fucking bills. When my rent gets increased despite the house I’m in literally falling apart around me, I don’t ask why they don’t send repair people, I just pay my goddamned rent. You all act so entitled, like there is some great value that is to be derived from your work. You’re a fucking slob just like everyone else, and you are lucky that the companies trust you enough to do business with you in the first place. Hell, I’d pay double just to get a meaty black uncut cock in the ass and I’d be thankful for the privilege. I mean, I’d pay them a lot of money for that. Even if it was just one time. Just once, and I would sing their praises. Just, sing. Fuck you, anyway. Fucking slobs. Stop wasting your time posting about this shit online and get back to work.