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    Yes, but corporations pay into the system in other ways. Take for example the time Duke Energy had a big coal ash spill into a river. They took the income resources they had and not only paid a fair fine price, cleaned up the…

    Wait. No they didn’t. They passed on all the costs to their customers. Fortunately those customers were able to use the free market and choose another provider…

    Wait. No, they can’t. Huh. That IS a freeloader.

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    Its funny how much owning a successful business sound exactly like being a lazy, work-shy layabout who does nothing while living off of other people’s hard work.

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      It’s enough to be big, you don’t have to be successful. Corporations are rescued all the time with tax money.

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    Stupid question: If undocumented, how are they verifiably paying anything close to this figure in taxes? Pls respond

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    I’d actually be willing to bet that we (the US taxpayer) paid those corporations for the privilege of their continued existence

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    Racism is either a symptom or a tool:

    Those who cant make sense of their situation being unsatisfactory may fall prey to it to soothe themselves.

    Those who hoard all of the worlds wealth use it to distract from that fact.

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      Worth noting that a lot of the people raging about immigrants don’t see themselves as racist.

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        Or themselves as immigrants, for that matter.

        A German settler calling a Hispanic migrant “illegal” really says something about the legal and social zeitgeist.

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        If you apply liberal’s superficial understanding of what white supremacism actually is hard enough it’s very easy to end up in a situation where nobody could possibly be a white supremacist.

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    Posts like this are important, but unfortunately in vain, I’m afraid. Those who still don’t understand it will never understand it. I think they don’t want to. I don’t get it.

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      I’d say it’s still important to post and talk about, not for the people who know and don’t care, but for the people who don’t know and do care.

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    the US Constitution puts the ENTIRE TAX BILL as the responsibilty of corporations, this was illegally changed during WW2. This is why prior to WW2 there was no income tax. We are living in a fascist hell hole because we are not following the legal Constitution. We are following a partial fake. The full text of the original Constitution is available when you read the Constitution, then turn it upside down and read the additional text which is in Latin. Democrats and Republicans are fully aware and refuse to reinstate the Full Constitution. They are both Traitors to the Republic.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      Please get help or take your medication. The Constitution does not have a magic Latin section.

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      The full text of the original Constitution is available when you read the Constitution, then turn it upside down and read the additional text which is in Latin

      Do you have the latin? What does the full text say?

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      Is there, and I’m just guessing here, a medication that you may need a lot of and have taken none of? Or maybe too much of?