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the suspense is killing me. she,her, and sometimes they.
Nov 2, 2019 4 tweets 1 min read
People need to understand: when you say raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations would mean wage cuts for workers, you are agreeing to the premise that execs should continue to take home the maximum amount of profit possible while budget cuts come only from the labor end - To use Amazon as an example again, Bezos made ~$80k in salary in 2018 but with his shares took home $40B. Amazon itself made $11B and paid no tax. Workers made about $30k pre-tax. So if we raise taxes on Bezos & Amazon, WHY does the difference come out of worker pay?/2