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Excellent. Watched the whole thing & he nailed it. His last point, that politicians should NOT take jobs in the industries they regulate, who could disagree with that? Also loved Richard Dennis’ killer line that gas companies pay more in PR than they do in PRRT (the gas windfall profits tax). All that wining & dining & political donations don’t come cheap either… they’re playing us for mugs.
Salon.com | Trump pardoned nursing home owner who owed almost $19 million to a grieving family by Jeremy Kohler
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President Donald Trump pardoned New Jersey businessman Joseph Schwartz, the owner of a chain of nursing homes, after Schwartz admitted to withholding $39 million in payroll taxes and defrauding Arkansas’s Medicaid program; the pardon came despite a federal conviction and a civil judgment that awarded the Coulson family—who lost their mother, nurse Doris Coulson, after she died from a “scrambled‑egg” incident at Schwartz’s facility—nearly $19 million, which Schwartz never paid. The article details Doris’s dedication as a nurse, the family’s wrongful‑death lawsuit, the stark neglect and financial abuse suffered by residents and staff in Schwartz’s homes, and the broader pattern of Trump’s clemency favoring well‑connected defendants, highlighting how the pardon left the grieving family without the compensation the court ordered.
#DonaldTrump #JosephSchwartz #Medicaid #Coulsonfamily #lobbyists #DorisCoulson #AmandaCoulson
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If you think that Australian political parties are ‘bought off’ by corporate and wealthy Australians contribution, think again…
“Australia provides taxpayer funding to parties and candidates based on how many votes they receive. At the May 2025 federal election, each voter was worth around $6.80 in public funding, and that will rise to $10 at the next election – that’s $5 each for ballots for the House of Representatives and Senate.
Labor got $37 million in taxpayer funding after the 2025 election, the Liberal–National Coalition $33 million, the Greens $13 million and One Nation $6 million.
It pays to be popular. Winning the vote of an extra 1% of Australians (about 160,000 people) is worth $1.1 million, set to rise from next year to $1.6 million.” (Source: The Point)
Read more:
https://thepoint.com.au/off-the-charts/260411-popular-policies-would-be-a-better-revenue-raiser-than-taking-fossil-fuel-and-gambling-donations
Also, #lobbyists, #GoldenParachutes, the #msm propaganda machine and #PoliticalAdvisors have more influence on politicians than millionaire/corporate hand outs
It’s a shame that the taxpayers do not have their funding of parties ‘tied’ to specific policies and their resulting legislation — KPI-like incentive. I wonder how such a system would operate…
Australians are naturally suspicious of corporate donations, especially when they come from vested interests with everything to gain from influencing government decision-making. But are these donations large enough to explain why politicians act the way they do? The reality is that political donations from harmful industries are small relative to the payments parties receive from you, the voter.
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