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L0oniX

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4. Slavery by any other name.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon Sep 1, 2014, 02:07 PM

Sep 2014

The idea was to keep your slaves healthy enough to keep working hard on your plantation. It's the same idea in play today only it's not abducted people from Africa, it's people enslaved all over the planet (irregardless of race) and the plantation owners will have their crops made where ever it is the most profitable for them to do so. Profit over people is the mantra of the greedy sociopath. "people over profit" is worth fighting for.

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Wages are low because of our tax system... [View all] kentuck Sep 2014 OP

Wages are low because of the greed of the 1% MiniMe Sep 2014 #1

Wages are low because owners make huge profits leftstreet Sep 2014 #2

Just like the old plantation owners only now taxes pay for food stamps for some of the slaves. L0oniX Sep 2014 #6

Truth. kentuck Sep 2014 #17

The capitalist system was not created to put all the money into one pocket. kentuck Sep 2014 #3

Slavery by any other name. L0oniX Sep 2014 #4

Wages are low because people want to buy cheap shit taught_me_patience Sep 2014 #5

+1 BrotherIvan Sep 2014 #7

Agreed. What should we do now? lovemydog Sep 2014 #8

We make political agreements with countries that offer tax havens to the tax cheats... kentuck Sep 2014 #9

Thank you kentuck. lovemydog Sep 2014 #11

since you asked....................... airplaneman Sep 2014 #10

Just the stock and derivative trade tax alone lovemydog Sep 2014 #12

a one percent stock and derivative tax would generate about 12 trillion a year n/t. airplaneman Sep 2014 #13

Holy crap - let's fight for it! lovemydog Sep 2014 #14

Europe is doing it and there is some talk here but they are only going like 0.003% n/t. airplaneman Sep 2014 #15

Thank you airplaneman. lovemydog Sep 2014 #18

This message was self-deleted by its author moondust Sep 2014 #16