The WASHINGTON PRETZEL1d ago
74.3% tax hike on people making under $15K. 20.6% on under $30K. Billionaires get a quarter of ALL tax cuts. Rep. Gomez asked: did you make a mistake? Answer: NO. 🤯
#BigBeautifulBill #TaxTheRich #JimmyGomez #TaxHikes #WorkingClass #BillionairesTaxCuts #TheWashingtonPretzel #USPoliTickle
Linux Is Best4d ago
The so-called "Big Beautiful Bill" designed to take place after the election.

Unless we elect progressives — Democrat does not always mean progressive — You're going to need to pay attention to who you're voting for.

But unless we vote progressive, no one will undo that "Big Beautiful Bill". Instead, they will accept it, allow it, and tell you that you should be mad at the Conservative Republicans who put that in place.

That is the "gotcha" — That right there is why so many people feel like both parties are the same. Because at the end of the day, we still end up someplace we don't want to go. Conservative Democrats don't roll back the damage, but rather holdover what Conservative Republicans did so that you accept this is the new normal. Comparable to how once prices at a store go up, they never really truly return to how they once were.

You want real change and real accountability? Vote progressive.

#Progressive #Progressives #Democrat #Democrats #BigBeautifulBill #Trump
William Lindsey Mar 13

"Seven in 10 Americans say Donald Trump’s tariffs have led to them paying higher prices, according to an exclusive new poll for the Guardian."

~ Lauren Aratani and Andrew Witherspoon

#Trump #Republicans #economy #prices #affordability #tariffs #billionaires #TaxCuts #BigBeautifulBill

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/13/trump-tariffs-poll

Seven in 10 Americans say Trump’s tariffs caused higher prices

Exclusive survey finds negative economic impacts felt across party lines as White House doubles down on tariffs

The Guardian
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Mar 13

The New York Times report by Mike Baker and Steven Rich featured in this thread of commentary is at the link below.

For articles behind paywalls, I frequently use the Archive Today site to read.

#billionaires #Republicans #Trump #oligarchy #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #BigBeautifulBill
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/us/billionaires-federal-election-campaign-contributions.html

Billionaires Made 19% of Federal Election Campaign Contributions in 2024

Billionaires made 19 percent of all reported federal campaign contributions in 2024, a Times analysis shows, and even more in some local elections. Wealthy donors are reaping the rewards.

The New York Times
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Mar 13

For more reporting today on this topic of how billionaires have decisively bought the US and its political system in the Trump era, see:

Caleb Ecarma:

https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/how-billionaires-are-hijacking-us

Wajahat Ali and Qasim Rashid:

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-dirty-money-is-buying-democrats

Thom Hartmann"

https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-ceo-presidency-scam-how-republicans-644

#billionaires #Republicans #Trump #oligarchy #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #BigBeautifulBill
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How billionaires are hijacking U.S. politics

A New York Times report published Monday analyzed how America’s billionaire class increasingly controls U.S.

Oligarch Watch
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Mar 13

"They explain how underwriting political campaigns from those for local school boards to the presidency has enabled the very wealthy to lock in their policy preferences for tax cuts, deregulation, and cuts to the social safety net while also steering valuable government contracts to themselves."

#billionaires #Republicans #Trump #oligarchy #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #BigBeautifulBill
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William Lindsey Mar 13

"On March 9, Mike Baker and Steven Rich of the New York Times published a long exposé of the corruption of American politics by billionaires."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#billionaires #Republicans #Trump #oligarchy #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #BigBeautifulBill
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-12-2026

March 12, 2026

In Ohio today, Republican candidate for governor Vivek Ramaswamy launched a $10 million TV and digital ad campaign to run until Election Day.

Letters from an American
Captain Jack SparrowMar 4

So trump's #BigBeautifulBill has taken money away from working people, and gone into funding Billionaires and War.

Nice one #MAGA and anyone else who was dumb enough to vote for the orange fascist.

#trumpfascism #fascistUSA #usiranwar #iran #middleeast

WelkinFeb 25
@billyjoebowers Just like the pre-French revolution nobility and elites, they are all in this.
So what if the peasants in pre 1789 France could not eat bread. They could eat the cake. Now too, so what if it takes 3 jobs to put food on the table and fill in a gallon of fuel in the tank, at least the Dow is above 50000.
Just like pre revolution French nobility now also #Billionaire are exempt from paying taxes because of #bigbeautifulbill.
DoomsdaysCWFeb 18

#Palantir Pays Zero Federal #IncomeTax Despite Explosive Growth, Largely Due to #Trump Tax Law

by Matthew Gardner, February 17, 2026

"The CEO of Palantir, the tech company known for equipping #ICE with #AITools that hack into people’s phones, recently said he runs 'the first company to be completely #AntiWoke.' This week, we learned that a key part of being anti-woke is, apparently, not paying taxes.

"In its recent earnings call summarizing fiscal year 2025, a Palantir exec crowed that the company’s explosive growth and profitability for the year was 'one of the truly iconic performances in the history of corporate performance.' But the company neglected to mention one weird trick that also fueled its 2025 growth: this is the third straight year that a profitable Palantir has avoided paying even a dime of federal income tax on its earnings.

"Palantir’s annual financial report, released this week, shows the company enjoyed $1.5 billion of U.S. income and paid exactly zero federal income tax. At the 21 percent federal income tax rate profitable companies theoretically pay, Palantir should have paid $330 million.

"While the company used a variety of tax breaks to achieve this, the most obvious is the new tax break enacted by Congress at the behest of President Trump last summer. The 'One #BigBeautifulBill' allows companies to (retroactively) immediately deduct their research expenses, rather than writing them off gradually over time in line with the income generated from that research. Palantir reduced its taxes by over $400 million using this provision.

"U.S. #taxpayers are paying multiple times for the services provided by Palantir, which the Trump administration finds so valuable. First, we pay the bill for the government contracts signed with the company, for example, the deal signed in April for Palantir to provide ICE with a system to track immigrants. Then we pay again with subsidies provided through the tax code, including the $400 million for the 'research' the company has done to create these innovations in government surveillance.

"It’s not news that helping the Trump administration with its policy goals can be enormously profitable. But it’s important to recognize that Palantir’s recent success has been helped substantially by a far more pedestrian tool: handouts from American taxpayers."

Source:
https://itep.org/palantir-pays-zero-tax-trump-tax-law-ice/

#USPol #WorldPol #WarMachines #Spying #SpyMachines #BigBrother #SurveillanceState #PayYourTaxes #TaxTheWarMachines #AbolishPalantir #NoWar #TaxTheRich #TaxCorporations #BigUglyBill #TrumpSucks

Palantir Pays Zero Federal Income Tax Despite Explosive Growth, Largely Due to Trump Tax Law

Palantir reported $1.5 billion of U.S. income but paid exactly zero federal income tax in 2025. Despite explosive growth, tax breaks from the Trump tax law helped Palantir avoid paying even a dime of federal income tax on its earnings.

ITEP