Raising the corporate tax rate is about as effective as tariffs. The money they have to spend will just get added into the price and they'll call it "inflation" again. The problem is there is nothing to protect the consumer from rampant capitalism. The middle class has been eroded away, and the lower class loses members to the poverty line every minute. A corporate tax won't fix that. Consumer rights will. Corporate oversight will. We need someone with a backbone in a leadership position, and we keep voting for the bent-spine cocksuckers that only care about the bottom line. It's time to start lining politicians against the wall. It's been a death by inches for decades, and the idea that if we make the corporations pay their fair share we'll somehow fix the problem is the worst kind of delusion. The roots are too deep now to get away with simple pruning.

[–] BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

At which point people won't afford their products and they'll have to concede. Or, better option, push everyone into FOSS operating systems and renew interest enough in Ubuntu Touch, Postmarket OS, or any of the mobile Linux distros to see widespread divestation from Google, Apple, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. Nothing but good comes from taxing the rich.

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

At which point people won’t afford their products and they’ll have to concede.

We've got a century's worth of data that proves you wrong.

Or, better option, push everyone into FOSS operating systems and renew interest enough in Ubuntu Touch, Postmarket OS, or any of the mobile Linux distros to see widespread divestation from Google, Apple, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft.

Bwahahahahaha. ahem. I'm sorry. I don't know what came over me.

Nothing but good comes from taxing the rich.

Nothing but good comes from taxing the rich, and making it stick. You have to enforce the law. Without regulations and oversight, the situation won't change in any positive direction.

[–] BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Nothing but good comes from taxing the rich, and making it stick.

Which is why we need a message unity at a scale of global import. You deeply underestimate peoples' capacity for understanding. People don't miss that which is stolen from them, until they realise it's gone. The same, is true of privacy. Once the implications are broadly understood, we will rally. We are not cattle, we are the poets, we are the artists. We are the dreamers of dreams.

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I don't underestimate people's capacity for understanding, I accurately estimate their energy to get out and do something about it. Everyone knows they're fucked. No one has the strength to stand.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 12 hours ago

Nothing but good comes from taxing the rich, and making it stick.

It doesn't even have to "stick", so long as the strategies available for them to avoid the taxes are beneficial.

When they are forced to turn around and spend their excessive revenue on good and services, they are putting people to work, creating paychecks, instead of padding their portfolios.

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