Kelly Rabideaux-HuqNov 27, 2022
Qasim Rashid, Esq.

Funny how if billionaires leave b/c Govt raises billionaire taxes, it’s Govt’s fault—but as teachers leave because Govt won’t raise teacher salaries, it’s the teachers fault.🤔

Protecting billionaires & exploiting teachers in poverty is class warfare against working people.

Nov 26, 2022 at 9:19pmMastodon Twitter Crossposter
Show threadWeAre RosieNov 26, 2022
@QasimRashid also it's getting apparent that billionaires are becoming fascists, so maybe to prevent fascism we need to get rid of Billionaires.
Show threada bowl of persimmonsNov 26, 2022
@wearerosie @QasimRashid Becoming? Have you not heard of Henry Ford?
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Show threadJasmineNov 27, 2022

@wearerosie @QasimRashid

Capitalism was dreamed up by the fascists. It's predatory. It's cruel and barbaric. It must die or it will most assuredly kill us.

Show threadhiding from plagues ☣️♿Nov 27, 2022
@wearerosie @QasimRashid they were already fascist. What are you on about
Show threadcharvakaNov 26, 2022

@QasimRashid If billionaire oligarchs don't pay their taxes: it's the tax system's fault, too many loopholes, we need to reduce the tax rate and close those loopholes, then they will pay.

If a poor person makes too little money to qualify for income tax: these lazy people don't want to work hard, cut their benefits so they have the incentive to work!

Show threadIncrExplBoyNov 26, 2022

@charvaka

I hope you are being sarcastic. The poor are rarely poor due to lack of effort. The available benefits for the poor are not enough to discourage work. The quality of life on public assistance is not something people aspire to.

Show threadcharvakaNov 26, 2022
@IEboy Yes, I was paraphrasing the pro-oligarch, anti-poor arguments of the right that I don't agree with.
Show threadPensive™️Nov 27, 2022
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The #ProphetGeorge always said it best.
Show threadSDMike 😷 💉 ✊🏾 🇺🇦 💯Nov 26, 2022

@QasimRashid

Saw this over on Counter Social:

Show threadChris HNov 26, 2022
@QasimRashid Arguably, the existence of billionaires is Class Warfare in itself.
Show threadJasmineNov 27, 2022

@Xopher @QasimRashid

There shouldn't be classes.

Show threadCapNov 27, 2022
@Xopher @QasimRashid Absolutely! You've hit the nail on the head there
Show threadFrank VehafricNov 26, 2022
@QasimRashid More people need to practice saying "class warfare." It's nakedly in front of us and it's willful dereliction to not notice it.
Show threadJessGioiaNov 26, 2022
@QasimRashid You could have written this in the UK!
Show threadHidariMakNov 26, 2022
@QasimRashid The people who believe that it's the billionaires who need protecting, are generally against an educated populace. That's why Trump "loves the poorly educated voters", and why Walker was selected as a Republican candidate.
Show threadb1gpapaNov 26, 2022
@QasimRashid Warren Buffett supposedly said something like, yes, there is class warfare being waged. It’s being waged by our (Buffett’s) class, and we’re winning.
Show thread[email protected]Nov 27, 2022
@QasimRashid Cool, I have one for this!
Show thread[email protected]Nov 27, 2022
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Show threadPeter Walker 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇫🇮🌎🕊️☑️Nov 27, 2022
@Bargdaffy @QasimRashid so, we're 0-for-5. 😪
Show threadSteve PopovichNov 27, 2022
@Bargdaffy @QasimRashid today, of course, that would be mocked as "socialism".
Show threadCurious WonderNov 27, 2022
@QasimRashid if they keep teachers poor then the quality of education will be haphazard and then create no competition in the future for the greedy. Let's face it the backbone of life is knowledge.
Show threadStephenNov 27, 2022
@QasimRashid In Texas we still rank below the 50th percentile for average pay and retirees like myself have not had a cost of living adjustment since 2004. Yet somehow my idiot governor can find money for his human trafficking of immigrants as a political stunt. #supportteachers
Show threadSteve PopovichNov 27, 2022
@spmaestro @QasimRashid your tax dollars at work.
Show threadMadeleine HobbsNov 27, 2022
@QasimRashid well said 👏
Show threadMike MorpheusNov 27, 2022
@QasimRashid unfortunately, it’s far too easy to con working people into waging class warfare on each other.
Show threadFred C. Trump (dead/deceased)Nov 27, 2022
@QasimRashid Teachers were the only people who ever stood a chance of humanizing my son. Unfortunately, I beat them and made him into a monster despite their efforts.
No one else ever came close to showing him that other people were as real as he is.
That must be why he handed the whole system off to an educational assassin like Nancy DeVos the moment he had the power to do so.
Show threadJKChicagoNov 27, 2022

@QasimRashid This kind of ties into something that I was thinking about this morning and need to research to make sure I'm not just imagining it. That being access to SCOTUS.

I keep reading about some wealthy and powerful politicians not wanting to testify or something else they don't like, petitioning SCOTUS, and getting a relatively instantaneous response, unlike the wait times for relatively average people.

Show threadPatrick GillamNov 27, 2022
@QasimRashid
Most professionals do the work they do because they love it and are called to do it. Teachers teach because they cannot *not* teach. Nurses and other service providers have a “caring gene,” if you will, that must be exercised. Because they’re going to do what they do regardless of their works’ modest pay, we in society are happy to take advantage of that motivation and underpay them. Why do we not extend that reasoning to billionaires? But instead of underpaying them, tax them?
Show threadAnellaMarieNov 27, 2022
@QasimRashid The billionaires want us to fight each other so they can sit quietly in a corner counting their money.
Show threadQasim Rashid, Esq.Nov 27, 2022
@anellawrites Agree but would say, counting *our* money. The only redistribution of wealth that’s happened over the last 50 years is $50T from the bottom 90% to the top 1%.
Show threadRedshirtgalNov 27, 2022
@QasimRashid I'm retired from teaching now but I can remember a year I opened my contract for the coming year. After seeing there was no raise, I cried. I was already drowning in college loan debt, still living at home with my mother in my mid twenties, and wondering if I'd ever have enough money to have a place of my own. It's sad that things have gotten even worse for teachers.
Show threadMarysocontrary1🖤🐘🤍💜Nov 28, 2022
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Show threadGeorge CartyApr 13, 2023
@QasimRashid Surely the answer is to tax the billionaires' real estate, as that cannot be hidden or stashed in an offshore tax haven, and is also the most zero-sum kind of wealth.