Tax The Billionaires - Tumblr Posts
I can't even get hrt in this healthcare system. Can't do shit. Please, for the love of the gods above, don't privatize this.
What a magnificent, ridiculous, and attention-grabbing spectacle! It's a perfect example of how to get a lot of attention without much effort.
This is precisely the problem of the American state - people who have cheated on food stamps.
Do we understand that correctly? And you have to look at the immense damage that this has caused.
Certainly just as big as the environmental pollution of the big concerts or the cause of an opium epidemic by a morally reprehensible family that was owned by a pharmaceutical company, we can't go on for lines here from exploitation through illegal employment to tax fraud.... and so on and so forth.
Yes, the poor ones are simply the better victims because they don't have star lawyers to sue the media into the ground.
Besides, it's kind of great when you play the poor off against the underclass.
Then you don't deal with the real exploiters, elon, jeff, mark, and the rest of the sick profit maximising industry, oil, energy, manufacturing, banks of corrupt politicians let's not even start.
The attention span is completely guaranteed and the ratings are right, the clicks in the anti-social media a dream what more could you want: hardly any effort (if you still want to call it journalism) within the journalistic framework.
Quick money for the media and good fodder for the excitement culture.
And all the right-wingers get a real hard cock with so much support.
It's a shame that so much media time is spent on this kind of thing. It's a bit of a waste of everyone's time. Perhaps there are better ways of getting attention without resorting to such sensationalism.
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Food Stamps Fraud - News that don't make it to mainstream media because the criminals don't fit the country's racial narrative
Everyone should be aware that this is socially explosive..... if the rich completely shirk their responsibility and pay almost no taxes at all and then want to participate in government contracts, the normal citizens ultimately pay for the government contracts. And in order to finance this, taxes have to be increased for whom? The normal people.... Trump is not and never has been a man of the people.... lies and propaganda evaporate when you look at the pure numbers.
Anyone who can do the maths has a clear advantage!
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Why Big Money Supports Trump
Fascism backed by Big Money is one of the most dangerous of all political alliances.
We saw it in 1930s Germany, when industrial giants bailed out a cash-strapped Nazi party right before Hitler’s election, thinking that Hitler would protect their money and power.
We are seeing something similar now. Earlier this year, the GOP was running out of money. So Trump turned to his wealthy backers for help. Many super-rich donors who once criticized Trump for stoking the violence of January 6 have since had a change of heart, deciding their profits are worth more than our democracy.
Trump has promised them that if elected, he’ll extend his 2017 tax cuts that went mainly to the wealthy beyond 2025 when they’re scheduled to expire, and hinting at even more.
He promised oil executives he would scrap regulations favoring electric vehicles and wind energy if they would give his campaign one billion dollars.
The Trump White House is for sale, and the wealthy are buying. 50 billionaire families gave at least $600 million in political donations as of May, with over two thirds going to support GOP candidates and conservative causes.
Elon Musk, one of the world’s richest men, who also controls and manipulates one of the world’s largest communications platforms, has committed to spending millions of dollars to elect Trump.
In previous videos, I’ve highlighted alarming similarities between fascist regimes of the past and Trumpism. The alignment of American billionaires with Trump’s anti-democracy movement is one of the most dangerous parallels.
The billionaires want the rest of us to fight each other so we don’t look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone, so we don’t join together and raise taxes on the super-rich to finance childcare, better schools, our health care system, and everything else we need.
They fear democracy because there are far more of us than there are of them.
We need to see through their fear tactics and vote in overwhelming numbers this November.
We can learn from history and spot the danger. We are not doomed to repeat it.
What a great, rich lady! She was lucky enough to receive a little state support.
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We would absolutely be grinning from ear to ear if the state were to give us so much money.
The British royal family is seen as an integral part of established class society and its continued existence is supported by an annual state subsidy. It is believed that without this financial support, the royal family would not be able to maintain their lifestyle.
What a load of bullshit.... they even have a voice in the house of lords when it comes to taxing the royal family. Full insight into the potential legislation beforehand.... fuck is that cool, or course with veto right.
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What the British pay for their monarchy.
Profits from leasing land
The more complicated calculation looks somewhat different. This is because King Charles III has other income than just the direct state grants. He has income from the Duchy of Lancaster. These are profits from the leasing of land and other property. The Duchy yields around £20 million a year. The royal family also owns the Duchy of Cornwall, which also generates profits of a similar amount that are distributed to Prince William. A special feature for the King: he does not have to pay any taxes, i.e. neither income tax nor capital gains tax or even inheritance tax. Since 1993, however, the Queen has paid taxes on a voluntary basis.
The ‘Republic’ organisation, which campaigns for an end to the monarchy and for an elected head of state, presents a completely different account. In 2017, the pressure group presented a report in which the authors came to the conclusion that the royal family costs taxpayers £345 million (393 million euros) per year. The calculation also includes the costs of securing the royals and the properties. It also includes the costs of buildings that are owned by the state but used by the royal family, for example.
Monarchs.
Estimated assets of two billion euros
In recent weeks, there has been widespread reporting on the King's wealth. The Guardian newspaper has worked with a team of reporters and wealth specialists to calculate how much Charles III owns. According to the report, the king has 1.8 billion pounds (2.05 billion euros). He owns a fleet of 23 cars, numerous works of art, very valuable jewellery, horses and shares in companies. The family owns Balmoral Castle in Scotland as well as the seat in Sandringham and the Duchy of Lancaster. There are no official figures. The palace did not comment on the estimates, but called the figures ‘a creative mix of speculation, assumptions and inaccuracy’.
In the debate about the king's finances and the costs of the monarchy, one thing stands out above all else: There is a lack of transparency
In the 2024 financial year, which ended on 31 March of that year, the British royal family received state remuneration of around £86.3 million. This means that state remuneration remained constant compared to the previous year.
All the king's wealth
Charles III inherits a considerable fortune from his mother - tax-free. The royal family owns entire duchies, lucrative roads and dilapidated palaces.
The operating costs for the British monarchy are primarily met by the Crown Estate, the management company for the royal estates. These are the properties that belong to the monarchy as an institution and not to the monarch personally - and which make a tidy profit.
These include, for example, estates and properties such as the entire high-priced Regent Street in the heart of London, but also offshore wind farms off the coast, collections of paintings and shopping centres. The total value of the Estate's assets is estimated at more than 15 billion pounds, the equivalent of more than 17 billion euros.
More money for a dilapidated palace
Normally, 15 per cent of Crown Estate profits go to the monarch, which is usually the equivalent of around 50 million euros a year. This is used to finance staff, travel and palace maintenance - as well as facilities that the monarch supports. This 15 per cent rate was increased to 25 per cent in 2017 - which currently amounts to almost 100 million euros. A hefty, temporary supplement to renovate Buckingham Palace.
If the British government's report on the state of the palace is to be believed, the palace is now a shambles: in some of the 775 rooms, buckets are reportedly already being used to catch the drips from the ceiling. For 60 years, too little has been done in terms of maintenance, and now the craftsmen have to get to work, for ten years and around 430 million euros - financed by the Crown Estate. The electrics are outdated, the heating urgently needs to be replaced, as does the pipework, otherwise there is a serious risk of fire and water, says the government.
King Charles III owns a total of 92 properties - and they are extremely valuable
How much is too much?
According to Forbes, King Charles III's property portfolio now consists of 7 palaces, 10 castles, 12 houses, 56 holiday homes and 14 ancient ruins - which also have a high value. However, as the media rightly emphasise, he does not own the properties directly. They belong to the Crown Estate, the Duchy of Lancaster and the Duchy of Cornwall and are administered by the Crown. However, four estates are owned by two trusts that the Regent established when he was still Prince. Two of these estates are in Rome, the others in the United Kingdom.
One might be forgiven for questioning the collective intelligence of a people who would choose to engage in such an activity.
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Today marks the second anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth II -September 8th 2024.
Two years ago (on September 8th 2022), The late Queen died around 3pm at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.
You are incredibly missed. Thank you for everything Ma'am!
‘In a convent, the mother superior was dying. The other nuns wanted to offer her something to drink. But the mother superior refused a glass of water. Now they tried a glass of milk, with the same result. A nun then suggested adding a little whiskey to the milk, perhaps that would help. The dying woman actually drank the glass. Shortly afterwards, she was approaching death and her subordinates asked her what her last wish was. She replied: ‘Whatever you do, never sell this cow’.’
Now her groom* has recounted a hilarious joke that Elizabeth II told him during a ride with her beloved pony Emma.
New of today 09/11/25
*Well, does the man have to market his podcast now, or is he back to being the groom of Emma, the late Queen's favourite pony?
In the Rosebud podcast, Terry Pendry tells how the Queen, now 96 and frail, could not resist riding her favourite pony, Emma.
Well you old and frail normal citizens, if you can afford a place in a nursing home at all, always dream of how the super rich nice queen paid by the people was put frail by the nice staff on her favourite pony Emma while you lie in bed and nobody comes round to take you to the toilet.
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What a beautiful performance while you wet yourself.
At least it touched me deeply, but please not a bit ... the lambs are always given the illusion of participation, even though they are only kept in line with nice sentimental stories of the royals.
Hats off to the best marketing with a deceased queen.
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Let's put it nicely, we are pro-royalist unless of course we are not of blue blood ourselves with the appropriate privilege.
