"Freeloaders"

Yes, but corporations pay into the system in other ways. Take for example the time Duke Energy had a big coal ash spill into a river. They took the income resources they had and not only paid a fair fine price, cleaned up the...

Wait. No they didn't. They passed on all the costs to their customers. Fortunately those customers were able to use the free market and choose another provider...

Wait. No, they can't. Huh. That IS a freeloader.

Its funny how much owning a successful business sound exactly like being a lazy, work-shy layabout who does nothing while living off of other people's hard work.

Racism is either a symptom or a tool:

Those who cant make sense of their situation being unsatisfactory may fall prey to it to soothe themselves.

Those who hoard all of the worlds wealth use it to distract from that fact.

Posts like this are important, but unfortunately in vain, I'm afraid. Those who still don't understand it will never understand it. I think they don't want to. I don't get it.

Reading about The Bracero Program seems kind of wild in today's anti-immigrant US climate.

The Bracero Program (from the Spanish term bracero [bɾaˈse.ɾo], meaning "manual laborer" or "one who works using his arms") was a U.S. Government-sponsored program that imported Mexican farm and railroad workers into the United States between the years 1942 and 1964.

I was sceptical about the lack of sources so I DDG'd it:

https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report/undocumented-immigrants-in-us-pay-nearly-100-billion-in-taxes

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/18/us/undocumented-immigrants-taxes-cec/index.html

Stupid question: If undocumented, how are they verifiably paying anything close to this figure in taxes? Pls respond

I'd actually be willing to bet that we (the US taxpayer) paid those corporations for the privilege of their continued existence

Damn, Sam Reichs father is really big on social media

Freeloaders are the people taking up dramatically more resources than the value one human can produce.

I don't think they care. I think they just say they are free loaders because what they really feel is hate towards people of other races and ethnicities, but they can't say it out load or often even admit it to themselves.

The real reason your taxes are high is because of... the bears!

Trump is not a free-loader though!? And now that I've planted that thought... can you remind me why not exactly - asking for a friend? :-P

The duty of the working person is to pay tithes to the ruling class. But these workers are also using public services and benefiting from public works.

The only solution is to privatize more state functions, in order to make sure all immigrants continue to surrender their surplus value to the native aristocracy.

And no more eating! I don't want to see any Haitians who look well fed. We all know what that means. Haitians are supposed to be in a half starved state at all times. Otherwise, I just know they're up to something.

I think that would average between $5.000 and $3.000 per undocumented immigrant.

Did those companies make billions in profit? Or just billions in revenue and did creative accounting and investing so that they didn't actually make a profit so they don't need to pay tax?

Office depot you said?

I notice we’re comparing “taxes” in one column to “federal income taxes” in the other column. I wonder why.

the US Constitution puts the ENTIRE TAX BILL as the responsibilty of corporations, this was illegally changed during WW2. This is why prior to WW2 there was no income tax. We are living in a fascist hell hole because we are not following the legal Constitution. We are following a partial fake. The full text of the original Constitution is available when you read the Constitution, then turn it upside down and read the additional text which is in Latin. Democrats and Republicans are fully aware and refuse to reinstate the Full Constitution. They are both Traitors to the Republic.

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hi i'm robert reich and i have no idea what is going on or why at any time and that's my whole thing

How is the government getting taxes from people it doesn't know exist?? I thought you had to file your taxes yourself in America, why or how would the migrants even do that? Or if the employer is doing that, who do they say they are doing it for??

He should change the name to Robert 4rd Reich.

How much was paid with employee income tax? How much was paid with VAT?

How much did immigrants take out of the system?

This is the most biased one sided comparison.

It's strange how in the when businesses employee people and that wage gets taxed that's 100% on the employee. But when a business sells a product and it gets taxed that's 100% on the customer.