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    Netflix, Ford, Tesla, T-Mobile, AIG, NextEra, Darden, MetLife, Duke Energy, First Energy, DISH, Principal Financial, American Electrical Power, Kinder Morgan, Dominion, Oneok, Williams, Xcel Energy, NRG Energy, Salesforce, DTE Energy, Ameren, Sempra Energy, U.S. Steel, Entergy, AmerisourceBergen, PPL, CMS Energy, Evergy, Voya Financial, Atmos Energy, Alliant Energy, Match Group, UGI, Agilent Tech

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      The duopoly has created the environment over the last 50 years so that these companies do not pay taxes. Calling them out on it when they are the ones directly responsible for the fact that they pay no taxes is political theater

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        Your aren’t wrong in calling out the duopoly disfunction. However you can’t ignore they also are partially to blame for this problem and are fully taking advantage of the situation.

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          They’re the ones that wrote the laws for the legislators to pass these tax benefits in their favor.

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    The fact that there are companies that pay the executives more than they pay taxes is amazing. They shouldn’t just name and shame, they should regulate

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    The problem with conservatism though is that their voters will think this is a good thing. Taxes are bad full stop, so these companies are clever by lowering their tax bill. They don’t see that the salaries are obscene. Then they complain about public services and infrastructure being bad.

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      A consistent conservative is also against companies of this size existing. In that case they’d be right.

      Everything makes sense only in its own particular situation. Nothing is universally applicable. No, I don’t like paradoxical statements.

      But still things are right when they are right and wrong when they are wrong.

      You can see Republican voters applying their rule of thumb in the wrong place. Democrats do that too with theirs.

      Sometimes there’s no bright future and we should just brace for impact.

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    If they COULDNT do this they would just take their Jobs to OTHER COUNTRIES and then Mom And Pop shops would have to Open Up to fill in the Gap and that’s HORRIBLE!

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    Look at them not paying taxes

    Despite them enabling the tax laws which allow them to pay no taxes. This is more political theater

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      This is to pressure public opinion so that the remaining members of Congress and Senate vote to enable the ultra rich to pay their fair share.

      It’s not meaningless theater, it’s politics, and effective political action.

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        Pressure public opinion? This implies that politicians and government gives a flying fuck what we think. When one billionaire has more political influence than millions of voters they don’t care what we think. It’s not like this is new news that nobody has heard of before. We’ve known this for decades, and nothing has changed. Even if they were taxed accordingly that money would not be reallocated to helping the working class.

        Taxing the rich to save society is based on the assumption that taxation is required for the government to spend. The government can create money on a whim when they want it.