In Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King.
His quote on Societal Inequities.
#MartinLutherKing #MLK #Quote
#SocialismfortheRich #WealthGap
#RuggedIndividualismforthePoor

Remind me - what price does SpaceX pay when its exploding rockets shut down airports or other businesses?

#SocialismForTheRich #TaxTheRich

Breakup of SpaceX’s Starship Rocket Disrupts Florida Airports https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/science/spacex-starship-launch.html

SpaceX’s Starship Rocket Disrupts Florida Airports With Unsuccessful Test Flight

Video showed the upper stage of the most powerful rocket ever built spinning out of control in space, a repeat of an unsuccessful test flight in January that led to debris falling over the Caribbean.

The New York Times
Comedian Bill Burr Goes SCORCHED-EARTH on Billionaires in Spicy Rant

YouTube

Elon Musk claims to be an anarco-capitalist and free speech absolutist. In reality he's the recipient in billions of dollars of government contracts and subsidies.

He's a prime example of socialism for the rich and hyper-capitalism for everyone else.

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/time-to-stop-musk?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true

#twitter #elonmusk #subsidies #socialismfortherich

How to stop Musk

Friends,

Robert Reich

Peter Dutton took $23k private jet to #NewsCorpse event where he spoke on cost-of-living #crisis. The opposition leader travelled at taxpayers’ expense to Tamworth event sponsored by #GinaRinehart Hancock Prospecting. #auspol #socialismfortherich

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/13/peter-dutton-took-23k-private-jet-to-tamworth-where-he-spoke-on-cost-of-living-crisis

Peter Dutton took $23k private jet to News Corp event where he spoke on cost-of-living crisis

Exclusive: Figures reveal that opposition leader travelled at taxpayers’ expense to Tamworth event sponsored by Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting

The Guardian

@rayckeith free trade only seems to matter when it's US companies wanting to undercut domestic labor with cheap/inhumane overseas equivalents -- we're all for that and it's "inevitable" or "just good business". But once the profits are at risk of going overseas, then suddenly we can move heaven and earth to protect US industry.

#freetrade #capitalism #hypocrisy #cronycapitalism #socialismfortherich

@dangillmor

"Previously, Holt said that Thunder ownership had committed to make a "significant financial contribution" to the new arena. Last week, however, plans for a new $900 million arena for the Thunder were finalized. The team contribution would be just $50 million, with taxpayers footing the remainder of the bill. That's about $3,200 for every Oklahoma City household."
~@juddlegum
https://popular.info/p/the-oklahoma-city-boondoggle?utm_campaign=email-post&r=qs4z&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

#corporatocracy #Grift #SocialismForTheRich
#Politics #Oklahoma #USA

The Oklahoma City boondoggle

The Oklahoma City Thunder and its fans have made Clayton Bennett and the other owners of the NBA team extraordinarily wealthy. Bennett purchased the franchise, then called the Seattle Supersonics, in 2006 for $325 million. He moved the team to Oklahoma City in 2008, where it became one of the NBA's most compelling franchises. The Thunder drafted two future league MVPs, Russell Westbrook and James Harden, to play alongside superstar Kevin Durant, and the trio made a run to the 2012 NBA Finals. Since 2020, the team has undergone a successful rebuild, acquiring multiple talented young players, including All-Star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, along with a massive stockpile of future draft picks. They are, by some accounts,

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'A Poor Country with a Few Rich People in it': Renowned Inequalities Expert Speaks Out as Bereaved Families Give their Accounts of 'The Unequal Pandemic'

A new short film reveals the heart-wrenching stories of those who lost their loved ones to COVID – and exposes the politics of poverty behind the crisis

Byline Times
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce rules out paying back COVID 'bailout' as company celebrates record profits

Three years ago, Qantas A380 planes were gathering dust with the national carrier on the brink of bankruptcy. Today, the airline has unveiled a record profit of $2.47 billion before tax, fuelled by sky-high demand for domestic and international travel.

ABC News
Sixty-six Australian millionaires paid no tax last year: ATO

<p>Sixty-six millionaires earning more than a billion dollars put together paid no tax last year, according to new data from the ATO.</p>

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