You are speaking in generalities, fam.
Again - no one is asking corporations to pay cashiers like Executives. That is a straw man argument. And kind of a ridiculous statement.
But can say - the Wealthiest company in the world pay its employees enough to not need government food stamps? Yeah
Can we rescind $Billions in subsidies to Oil companies - some of the wealthiest companies in the world. Yeah
Can we provide healthcare to our citizens so 500,000 don’t go bankrupt, 40,000 don’t die, and millions more actually have access to healthcare they can actually afford? Yeah
Can we actually have corporations pay their fair share , IE ~ 30% of tax Revenue (like they used to) vs the ~10% they pay now - including some of the richest companies in the world, like Amazon, paying ZERO % or a Negative % Tax rate (my 20 year old brother paid more in taxes last year than Amazon did)
Can we provide a college education and forgive student loans for millions of Americans to start businesses, get better jobs, spend into the economy and grow the GDP? Yeah
Can we provide parental leave like every other developed nation on the planet? Saving tens of thousands of dollars for middle class families Yeah
Can we provide child care for our citizens putting thousands of dollars back into our pockets? Yeah.
Not one of those solutions called for the end of capaitlism or paying “Tim” like an Executive when he wasn’t qualified. It just actually served the PEOPLE of this country whom our democracy is SUPPOSED to represent.
If Corporations feel “inconvenienced” by that.
Ok ... Who cares ?
America is a Democracy not an Oligarchy. They will just have to deal with us acting like it.
You make a few broad stroke generalizations without offering any stategies or tactics.
Of course we want a vibrant and productive middle class.
The question is HOW DO WE GET THERE.
I say put more money in the hands of the people and let them innovate, le them thrive, let them start businesses, let them spend into the economy.
You say that’s “bullshit”. I’ll ask you to explain why you think that is the case.
How can you say that taxing multinational corporation‘s is a “small part of the problem”?
You do know that during the most prosperous time American history the tax rate average around 90% for the wealthy?
Corporations now pay 10% of the share in Tax Revenue while production is at historic heights. Who drives that production - American workers.
Yet Wages have been stagnant for 40 years
Corporations used to pay 30% of tax Revenue.
THIRTY PERCENT.
You call 20% difference in tax revenue, Trillions of Dollars, a “small part of the equation”???
Help me understand that logic ...
“Corporations won’t like this”
“Corporations won’t like that”
You seem to operate from the position that corporations are omnipotent. This is not the case. They are literally constructs of the government and only exist because of the people who voluntary compensate them. They were actually invented to serve the best interests of the people not their share holders.
Legislation can be structured in such a way that disallows corporations to pass all costs down to consumers or refuse pay a living wage. As we transition to an age of automation; again it is the job of a representative government to architect solutions and mechanisms to preserve the well being of the people it serves.
This hasn’t been the case NOT because, it is inherently impossible. It is not the case because coronations have bought our government; in effect transforming our democracy into an Oligarchy.
No deal ... Fuck that.
A Democracy is supposed to work for the people not a handful of Billionaires.