Wall St. Writing the Laws the Govern It + Bribes

[Indy]

[Divinity11]

Unbelievable.

Lobbyists, super PACs, career politicans...the sources of our problems in government.

[Indy]

Agreed. $$$

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[The Dharma Bum]

TBTF just shows that capitalism is a failure as a distribution philosophy. It simply cannot function without gargantuan infusions of cash. Even the massive amounts we are injecting into the economy is barely propping it up and it's only a matter of time before the whole thing collapses.

[Indy]

Ha! I put up that chart once!

I got the biggest kick out of "University of California." WTH? G5 explained it to me but it sounds shady.

[Mr.Bill]

In spite of what many would like us to believe, in the 80's Reagan RAISED taxes by cutting out many of the corporate tax loopholes which upped the taxes corporations paid then by hundreds of billions of $'s.. Thanks to money in politics and the corporations lobbyists most of the loopholes are back.. See Apple, GE, and the rest who pay little to no corporate Fed Income tax..

I have no doubt Dodd-Frank will be stripped, gutted and made completely useless over the next few years..

I'm sure many on the right, and some of the left will cheer when the regulations are gutted.. But in 5-7 years when the banks crash the system again, the cheering will stop and the finger pointing will start, again.

[Indy]

[lnrw]

[Indy]

I agree that it's not capitalism.

It's lemon socialism technically.

If corporations are indeed people and people like Apple get to pay no income taxes and I have to, that's not an even playing field. It's a tiered system.