Bernie Sanders

How are CEO's ripping off families? True many of them are overpaid assholes but YOU do have a choice not to purchase what they are selling, just sayin

let me give you an example.

just one.

you shop at Walmart?
most people do.

let me lay out a common deal most walmarts get from local,state and federal governments.
1.all access roads,streetlights,sidewalks and even the parking lot are paid for the local government,to the tune of millions of dollars.

payee:tax payer

2.deferred building costs in scroll,funded by the tax holiday (usually a ten year length) in the form of sales taxes.which means that the local government gives Walmart a tax holiday,and Walmart gets to keep all sales taxes (from 5%-9%),who then defer those taxes to pay for the structure,which can be 100's of millions.

*this means the taxpayers actually pays for the very building they are shopping in.

3.federal income tax (not SS) can be part of the holiday (and often is in the case of Walmart).so every employee that pays their state and federal taxes thinks those taxes are going to the state and the federal government,but in reality is being pocketed by Walmart and goes to pay executive bonuses.

*so the Walmart employees paying their executives bonuses.(amazon was also notorious using this tactic).

and this is only one company.

now,you seem like a sharp dude red.
does THIS look like capitalism?
because it is not.
do you know what it IS most like?
communism.

so when someone makes the argument that CEO's are ripping off American families.
they are telling you the truth.

America is socialism for the rich.
capitalism for the poor.

You missed by point entirely. Does Christy Walton have a gun to your head to make you shop there? You can goto the lil mom n pop store down the street, or not buy something at all, you have a choice.

They may be ripping off their own employees, that is different. Also, there is no gun to the employees heads to work there either.

ok bud.
carry on.

Bloomberg says that from 2008 to 2017 wallmart paid 64B in income tax.
If people truly didn't want a wallmart in their town, they can stop it.
My local twp stopped "whole foods " from coming in because of traffic, PPl voted on it
You have a choice.

ok.

again, not to make light of the fact that some of the ceo's make an absurd amount of $$ but Most big companies are in the stock market, The biggest single group of stock market share holders are Unions as a whole. Most ppl get their shareholder proxy and throw it in the trash.. At my Local, some will sometimes suggest on how to vote (cant stress "suggest" enough ) The control is in our hands, most are too lazy to change it..
BTW, i think i have spent abt 300$ at Walmart in my life.

just like the bus boycotts