It’s about time. Hopefully Canada will follow. We’ve about had it with high inflation, high rents and properties, and low wages, while near-monopolies gouge us. Monopolies that are getting tons of tax payer funded subsidies.
Biden’s Budget Calls for Tax Increases on Corporations and the Wealthy
Submitted 10 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz
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cyborganism@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Impressive! Watch this get watered down 4 times before it actually passes…
ikidd@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yah, well, I’ll believe it when I see it.
DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Please also disallow Congress from trading in the US stock market with their inside information.
rigatti@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Not sure that’s part of the budget plan. It would probably have to be a separate law passed by Congress that they definitely would not vote for.
sonori@beehaw.org 10 months ago
The problem is it’s typically their families that do the stock trading, and i you can’t extend employment contracts to unrelated parties. Even if you did do it with a law, people will still talk with their friends. This is part of the reason why insider trading is so difficult to prosecute and enforce outside of the blinding obvious.
DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 10 months ago
But I think you have to do it anyway— with the threat of investigation and prosecution for the sharing if insider information.
Right now it’s tacit approval.
Every 2 years it’s talked about banning trading for them to appease the public, then a long delay, then nothing occurs.
They are robbing retail’s money in plain sight.
AceTKen@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Please also disallow
Congress from trading intheUSstock marketwith their inside information.One small adjustment and it’s perfect!