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- utopian0
General Motors and Ford Paid Average Combined Tax Rate of Just 1 Percent on $42B in Profits.
Meanwhile In 2021
• GM CEO Mary Barra made over $29 million
• Ford CEO James Farley made almost $23 million
• Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares made about $21 millionOn top of the $652 million in executive salaries, GM and Ford paid the members of their corporate board of directors $51
million over those five years...corporate board members as a whole work an average of 248 hours annually - meaning the total 27 board members of the two firms were each compensated at roughly $1,860 per hour in 2022 alone.
- utopian6
Many of today's unhealthy foods were brought to you by Big Tobacco.
For decades, tobacco companies hooked people on cigarettes by making their products more addictive. Now, a new study suggests that tobacco companies may have used a similar strategy to hook people on processed foods.
In the 1980s, tobacco giants Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds acquired the major food companies Kraft, General Foods and Nabisco, allowing tobacco firms to dominate America's food supply and reap billions in sales from popular brands such as Oreo cookies, Kraft Macaroni & Cheese and Lunchables.
- we really try to stay away from any processed fooddoesnotexist
- OBBTKN2
Property developer and CEO Tim Gurner: "We need to see unemployment rise. Unemployment has to jump 40, 50 percent in my view. We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around."
- utopian3
Elon Musk just requested $100 million from the US government
The automaker has requested $100 million from the United States government to build nine charging stations for the Semis, according to CleanTechnica and Bloomberg. The stations will be strategically positioned between Northern California and the southern border of Texas. Each station would feature up to eight individual 750-kilowatt chargers, which means eight Semis could charge simultaneously at each of the nine stations.
- shame on him for trying to reduce transport costshotroddy
- Corporate welfare beggar...American capitalism at its finest!utopian
- I realize that grasping how this can benefit you might be a significant cognitive shift, and it seems more convenient for you to simply echo "corporate welfare.hotroddy
- Will they be run powered by diesel generators like his Central California one?instrmntl
- https://www.sfgate.c…instrmntl
- @hotnobby - so trucks (owned by companies and presumably sold by Tesla) carrying goods (sold by companies) should have their operating costs reducedBuddhaHat
- by having their charging networks built using taxpayer dollars? Tesla also paid a $0 in fed corporate income tax in 2021. All so Tesla sells more trucks?BuddhaHat
- Just Your Typical Everyday
American Crony Capitalismutopian - pure commie vibes... he likely starts building his glas house 42 in austin with it...neverscared
- he may be reducing surface level trans costs, but he's pulling more power than the current infrastructure can handle. so, he's really not reducing costs.doesnotexist
- Yes Buddha, if the current isn't helping keep fuel costs down, the least it should is try to subsidize alternate forms of transportation.hotroddy
- and it should look to private enterprise to do it bc Cali's bureaucratic corruption railroad costing $200 million per mile ain't gonna cut ithotroddy
- *current gov'thotroddy
- Elon Musk: "socialism for me, but not for thee"BuddhaHat
- pablo281
"In the United States, Amazon has opened its own supermarket chain to supplant its business rivals Walmart and Target and capture the American groceries market. In China, Alibaba and JD.com are investing in various areas of the food supply chain. They’re opening their own poultry, fruit and vegetable farms, and replacing human labor with AI-controlled machines. What impact is this kind of commercial revolution having on working conditions, food quality and the future of our planet? Featuring rare documents and witness statements, the documentary takes a look behind the scenes of these temples to consumerism."
- The monopolies will keep growing...until they are stopped.formed
- Education. We need more education. AND, USA needs to stop insulation - we need to travel outside the borders more - we need to understand the global economy...canoe
- is not the only economy. How does this happen - by education and travel - to see first-hand people survive without Walmart. We did at one point. Thanks Obama!canoe
- utopian3
- Goodmonospaced
- I dunno. A good burger isn't necessarily pretty.colab
- imbecile1
- ROIutopian
- hire more IRS agents.hotroddy
- they work for the banks/finance already. much better pay.uan
- stop taxing regular peopledoesnotexist
- Ramanisky2-1
- capitalism in the US I suppose but even then. The race thing is total BS. The darker your skin the more successful you are in silicon valley and in medicine_niko
- and in engineering etc. Globally, the colour of Saudi's skin hasn't hurt them one iota, nor the Chinese, or Koreans or Japanese...it's all race baiting BS._niko
- the only important colour that matters is Green. period._niko
- lol, this dude has never experienced brown socialismhotroddy
- This is USA specific, guys. And rings true to me.Projectile
- PhanLo2
- https://www.business…Squiddy
- 20 grand for a womb. NicePhanLo
- Womb TraderMrT
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Haha
- imbecile-2
- Henry Ford, his raging antisemitism attracted the admiration of Adolf Hitler.Morning_star
- utopian1
One of the Country’s Best Steakhouses Allegedly Spent $2 Million in Pandemic Funds on a Private Jet.
Maple & Ash locations in Chicago and Arizona benefitted from about $7.6 million in PPP money. However, the investors suing the restaurant claim that none of that money went toward helping the business and its employees. Rather, bank statements show that $2.2 million was spent on a 12-seat 2007 Learjet and that more than $32,000 was paid to a Chicago country club.
- fucking John Stamos over there_niko
- @Utopian "The investors, however, have said that they received smaller-than-expecte... dividends" So you're now on the side...Morning_star
- ..of the capitalist shareholders?Morning_star