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Bowman, Sanders Propose 95% Tax on Corporations Exploiting Inflation to Jack Up Prices (www.commondreams.org)

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[–] nick@midwest.social 53 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Much as I’d love to see this, not gonna happen. Not till we fire all the lobbyists

….Into the fucking sun.

[–] PlantJam@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's way over the top. What did the sun ever do to deserve lobbyists?

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 8 points 3 months ago

Makes me squint occasionally.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Quite literally gives people cancer. Just like the companies the lobbyists work for. There's a kind of poetic beauty to it, really.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

It's so frustrating to watch, because Richard Fucking Nixon of all people was able to pull off a windfall tax and it had the desired effect.

And now, not only do we know it's impossible, but everyone who refuses to do it is going to get reelected in November and we're all going to pretend they give a damn about the poor and disenfranchised.