Republican lawmakers are advancing bills that would reduce Michigan’s corporate income tax rate by 20 percent and create tax credits for businesses that lost at least a quarter of their revenue during COVID-19 restrictions.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leaders have spent months promoting the myth that red low-tax states are subsidizing blue high-tax states because of the deduction for state and local taxes.
The heat was so intense in the Pacific Northwest earlier this week that roads and highways started to buckle. Schools shut down as teachers feared for children’s health. Restaurants, bars and stores closed their doors out of concern for their employees’ well-being.
If the minimum wage had grown at the same rate as the earnings of the top one percent of Americans the federal wage floor would be more than triple the current hourly minimum of $7.25.
The Swarm's insight:
This chart confirms what angry Americans have suspected all along: The backstabbers of corporate personhood are cheating working class Americans out of a living wage, and they've been doing it for a very long time.
Where are the cost-of-living raises we should have received? We never got them. Where did all that money go?
The dirty, rotten truth:
The money that could have made families stronger and more stable went into the pockets of the greedy executives on Wall Street, the shameless cheats of the corporate world, and the craven lobbyists who comprise the corporate hacks serving the backstabbers who pay the inside traders and freeloaders in Congress to keep us miserable.
However, the appearance of Pope Francis changes everything. When the Pope attacks greed, he's going after Behemoth. When he does, I back him without hesitation. He knows what he's doing.
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