You know... I'm starting to think they're right... It's over. Mankind will lose.

We must be the heroes.

Cause we all know republicans are good at passing legislation, lol.

You think MAGA extremists are doing something different?

I think you're panicking over a perceived social slide that I cannot see at all. Indeed, for those of us on the right it feels like the left has been winning the battle for decades and inexorably growing the power of the state at the expense of individual freedoms.

Is that necessarily true? Perhaps not. And both sides are increasingly dominated by extreme fringes of their spectrum. But if you think this is all part of some grand, diabolical plan then you're making the 'conspiracy theory' error, which is to attribute a simple, malevolent cause to a complex situation created by the even more complex web of human interaction that is society. (This is more Hobbesian than I usually am...)

i love the comments, if we raise taxes on billion dollar companies they will just raise the price.
Maybe the company who can still make a profit, charge fair prices and pay taxes will cause those cry babies to lower prices or they go out of business.

And there lies the issue: We can't tax them, we can't raise wages. Every time their profit is pinged, they increase the wage gap to placate the masses. This is like the blob game: you accrue more and more businesses and more and more subsidiaries until you literally own everything. We're already at the point where we are dependent on some corporations for infrastructure to remain intact e.g. Amazon, Comcast, etc. Once you start owning all the stores, who's going to tell you "no?" The government? The one that "has you by the balls?" You just laugh and decide to go overseas for cheaper labor.

Laws will be put into place then that say it costs you more to do that, then you just put what we have now: shifts that go right under the acceptance level for health insurance, high turnover, many small shifts among the lower and poverty class that requires them to spend well over the recommended amount of their net income on rent. It *should* be 33% People making 50k (average) are paying that in rent *now*. Guess what? 50k is still considered middle class. Yeah... it may have been 10 years ago. Now it's nearing the poverty line. To get that, you *need* a college education. So now, you're forced into slave wages anyway as you spend your * E N T I R E L I F E * paying it off. (Referring to a life as a span of 20 years, and entire is obviously stretched.) Meanwhile you need to make ANOTHER L I F E T I M E loan to get a house. And a car loan. Meanwhile you're saving money for your kids to go to college because you now make too much money to have your kids attend college through FAFSA.

Being pushed into economic slavery, I tell yas.

There is no economic solution. Growth must reverse.

As long as food companies have to compete with toy companies on the stock market for investor dollars, there is no economic solution.