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Tax the super-rich. Pass a millionaires surtax.

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Tell Congress: Pass a Wall Street Sales Tax

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The Richest 1% Is Close To Amassing As Much Wealth As The Entire Middle Class

Feed the uber-rich, nothing else matters.

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Tax excessive CEO pay

To: U.S. Congress

Companies that pay their CEO more than 50 times their median worker should be taxed for that imbalance. Pass the Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act, and incentivize sharing the wealth with workers.

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The GOP Tax Cuts Didn’t Work
Republicans said the reform would grow the economy by up to 6 percent, stimulate business investment, and pay for itself. None of that happened.

How FedEx Cut Its Tax Bill to $0
The company, like much of corporate America, has not made good on its promised investment surge from President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts.

Petition to Congress:

"Oppose any new Trump tax proposal and repeal the Trump Tax Scam that only benefits corporations and the super wealthy."

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The GOP Tax Cuts Didn’t Work
Republicans said the reform would grow the economy by up to 6 percent, stimulate business investment, and pay for itself. None of that happened.

How FedEx Cut Its Tax Bill to $0
The company, like much of corporate America, has not made good on its promised investment surge from President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts.

Petition to Congress:

"Oppose any new Trump tax proposal and repeal the Trump Tax Scam that only benefits corporations and the super wealthy."

Not to throw water on the great common sense suggestion that trickle down doesn't work and that taxes are to pay for services not to line the pockets of the wealthy, but no one listened when Hoover, reagan, h.w. and lil bush ran the same scam.

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Stop Trump's payday lending corruption



Petition to Congress:

"Expand the cap on payday loan interest rates that protects members of the military to everyone in the United States and fight to impose a strict 15% cap on payday loan interest rates nationwide."

Tell the SEC to stop undermining shareholder activism!

Petition to SEC Commissioners:
Do not take away our rights as investors: We urge you to reject the proposed changes to shareholder proposal and voting processes. The longstanding shareholder proposal rule facilitates the right of Americans to hold accountable the corporations that they invest in. The SEC should protect Main Street Americans, not Wall Street and big business CEOs.

Donald Trump's SEC is proposing a dangerous rule change that would silence shareholders and undermine corporate accountability efforts. This move will help inoculate powerful Wall Street companies and wealthy CEOs to pressure from their own shareholders.

The rule would make it harder to file shareholder petitions by increasing the ownership stake needed in order to do so by ten fold. It would also increase the percentage of support a petition would need to garner from shareholders in order to stay alive.

Shareholder resolutions have been used for decades to ensure better corporate governance and to advance important causes like gay rights, gender and racial equity, and environmentalism -- concerns for which the recent, much-lauded statement issued by major CEOs through the Business Roundtable implies support. For instance, employees recently used their company-issue stock to pressure Amazon to reduce its contribution to climate change because of its impact on the world and on Amazon's own business.

Now the SEC is looking to undermine shareholder proposals and make it harder for advocates to constrain corporate abuses. We need to stand up and fight back to protect the ability of shareholders to shape the governance of corporations they invest in.

Add your name and tell the SEC: Stop the anti-shareholder proposal rule!

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Stop Trump's payday lending corruption



Petition to Congress:

"Expand the cap on payday loan interest rates that protects members of the military to everyone in the United States and fight to impose a strict 15% cap on payday loan interest rates nationwide."

Tell the SEC to stop undermining shareholder activism!

Petition to SEC Commissioners:
Do not take away our rights as investors: We urge you to reject the proposed changes to shareholder proposal and voting processes. The longstanding shareholder proposal rule facilitates the right of Americans to hold accountable the corporations that they invest in. The SEC should protect Main Street Americans, not Wall Street and big business CEOs.

Donald Trump's SEC is proposing a dangerous rule change that would silence shareholders and undermine corporate accountability efforts. This move will help inoculate powerful Wall Street companies and wealthy CEOs to pressure from their own shareholders.

The rule would make it harder to file shareholder petitions by increasing the ownership stake needed in order to do so by ten fold. It would also increase the percentage of support a petition would need to garner from shareholders in order to stay alive.

Shareholder resolutions have been used for decades to ensure better corporate governance and to advance important causes like gay rights, gender and racial equity, and environmentalism -- concerns for which the recent, much-lauded statement issued by major CEOs through the Business Roundtable implies support. For instance, employees recently used their company-issue stock to pressure Amazon to reduce its contribution to climate change because of its impact on the world and on Amazon's own business.

Now the SEC is looking to undermine shareholder proposals and make it harder for advocates to constrain corporate abuses. We need to stand up and fight back to protect the ability of shareholders to shape the governance of corporations they invest in.

Add your name and tell the SEC: Stop the anti-shareholder proposal rule!

And I've been asked why I call it going back to nanny.

Join a job - probably because you couldn't get one

Spend 20 or 30 years having everything provided to you and

Get out with a hefty retirement income and maybe a degree or two on the taxpayer's dime

And go take a job from someone else

meanwhile, clog up civilian emergency rooms and expect a discount everywhere you shop

And don't worry about those mean old payday loan companies, your nanny is watching out for its military people

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Trump administration proposal would allow stadium funding to count as aid to poor for banks

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Tell the SEC to stop undermining shareholder activism!

Petition to SEC Commissioners:
Do not take away our rights as investors: We urge you to reject the proposed changes to shareholder proposal and voting processes. The longstanding shareholder proposal rule facilitates the right of Americans to hold accountable the corporations that they invest in. The SEC should protect Main Street Americans, not Wall Street and big business CEOs.

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Justice Kavanaugh: Recuse yourself from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau case

Petition to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh:

We urge you to recuse yourself from Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The law clearly states that judges should recuse themselves when their impartiality might reasonably be questioned. You have already ruled on the underlying legal question in this case in PHH Corp. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. In PHH, you offered a more than 70-page long dissent which you told the Senate constituted one of the most “significant constitutional opinions” of your judicial career. You cannot plausibly claim to be open to arguments from both sides. Furthermore, the law states that “no judge shall hear or determine an appeal from the decision of a case or issue tried by him.” We urge you to recuse yourself from this case because it is clear you cannot be impartial.

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The 22 richest men in the world have more wealth than all the women in Africa

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Most of us pay into Social Security all year long. But millionaires stopped paying on February 19th.

Why? Wealth Americans only pay Social Security taxes on the first $137,700 of their income. After that, they don't pay a dime.

SIGN THE PETITION: Scrap the Cap! Ensure Social Security is rock solid for generations by making the wealthy pay their fair share.

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Progressive groups demand that Brett Kavanaugh recuse himself from Supreme Court case over financial regulator

We could lose the CFPB.

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Progressive groups demand that Brett Kavanaugh recuse himself from Supreme Court case over financial regulator

We could lose the CFPB.

Hell, as far as I;m concerned we lost it when Mulvaney was put in charge of it. Since he left to become butler to the whiner in chief, CFPB has been like a sign in a dark closet.

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Hell, as far as I;m concerned we lost it when Mulvaney was put in charge of it. Since he left to become butler to the whiner in chief, CFPB has been like a sign in a dark closet.

I thought about mentioning that, but on 1/21/21 it will be easier to pull the sign out of the dark closet than it will be to make a new one from scratch.

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Looking like Monday's gonna be a rough ride on Wall Street.

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Looking like Monday's gonna be a rough ride on Wall Street.

Yep. A major fall was always certain, but we'll never know how much it might have been moderated by a more competent, intelligent and steady WH response.


Big banks want regulation eased because of coronavirus. Experts call it opportunistic

Stop Wall Street from using the coronavirus to weaken regulations

Petition to the Federal Reserve:
We oppose the proposals from the Bank Policy Institute to lower capital requirements and ease the periodic "stress tests" banks take to prove they can survive another economic crisis. We have just seen a major stock market decline and the coronavirus may cause a recession. This is precisely the time to keep strong capital requirements and stress tests -- and the worst time to relax them. Tell the big banks "no" and reject their effort to weaken these critical protections against another financial crisis.

[billy.pilgrim]

Looking like Monday's gonna be a rough ride on Wall Street.

Yep. A major fall was always certain, but we'll never know how much it might have been moderated by a more competent, intelligent and steady WH response.


Big banks want regulation eased because of coronavirus. Experts call it opportunistic

Stop Wall Street from using the coronavirus to weaken regulations

Petition to the Federal Reserve:
We oppose the proposals from the Bank Policy Institute to lower capital requirements and ease the periodic "stress tests" banks take to prove they can survive another economic crisis. We have just seen a major stock market decline and the coronavirus may cause a recession. This is precisely the time to keep strong capital requirements and stress tests -- and the worst time to relax them. Tell the big banks "no" and reject their effort to weaken these critical protections against another financial crisis.

off course trump will prop up the big banks and wall street just like Obama and bush and bush and Reagan and so many more who believe that their friends come first.

[GoCubsGo]

Ouch, DOW loses another 1,400 points today, futures are down another 900+ tonight.

Market is not liking the Cheetohead and his response....