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  • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

    Originally posted by Jimjamesak View Post
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    • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

      The story of a small rural town in Illinois that banked on warehouses as saving their town, and how the businesses have abused them:

      https://newrepublic.com/article/152836/elwood-illinois-pop-2200-become-vital-hub-americas-consumer-economy-its-hell

      Fifteen years before Amazon’s HQ2 horserace, Elwood had won the retail lottery. “Nobody envisioned what we have out here,” said Jerry Heinrich, who sat on the board of the planning commission that first apportioned the land for development in the mid-1990s. “It was never anticipated that every major business entity would end up in the area.”

      But this corporate valhalla turned out to be hell for the community, which suffered a concentrated dose of the indignities and disappointments of late capitalism in the 21st century. Instead of abundant full-time work, a regime of partial, precarious employment set in. Temp agencies flourished, but no restaurants, hotels, or grocery stores ever came, save for the recent addition of a dollar store. Tens of thousands of semis rumbled through Will County every day, wreaking havoc on the infrastructure. And as the town of Elwood scrambled to pave its potholes, its inability to collect taxes from the facilities plunged it into more than $30 million in debt.
      I spent two summers in this area on highway construction. The amount of semi-truck traffic on local roads is astounding. And I witnessed so many truck drivers turn into the Abraham Lincoln Cemetery completely ignoring a half dozen "No Truck" signs; A few even asked us if they could turn onto the street even though it says they couldn't (I lost it a few times on the idiot truck drivers).
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      • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

        The traffic from that mess is just insane... I-80 NEVER backed up on a regular basis through Joliet on a regular basis without an accident up until about 2012... Now you can set your watch to it every afternoon... And it's all trucks.... I-80 is also shut down because of a fatal accident on a monthly basis now it seems...

        But hey, big business is where it's at! Gotta make the 1%-ers even better than the rest of us
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        • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

          Originally posted by aparch View Post
          The story of a small rural town in Illinois that banked on warehouses as saving their town, and how the businesses have abused them:

          https://newrepublic.com/article/152836/elwood-illinois-pop-2200-become-vital-hub-americas-consumer-economy-its-hell



          I spent two summers in this area on highway construction. The amount of semi-truck traffic on local roads is astounding. And I witnessed so many truck drivers turn into the Abraham Lincoln Cemetery completely ignoring a half dozen "No Truck" signs; A few even asked us if they could turn onto the street even though it says they couldn't (I lost it a few times on the idiot truck drivers).
          Bezos is a pr!ck, and his "feud" with Trump should fool no one into thinking he's a good guy. The only difference between the two is that Bezos is actually a sinister genius, whereas Trump is just a trust fund moron with an uncontrollable maw.

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          • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

            New idea: let Trump build his wall, but sections need to be made from the surplus cheese brick supply the US has.
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            • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

              Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
              Bezos is a pr!ck, and his "feud" with Trump should fool no one into thinking he's a good guy. The only difference between the two is that Bezos is actually a sinister genius, whereas Trump is just a trust fund moron with an uncontrollable maw.
              I... agree with this assessment.

              The tax breaks local municipalities get "monorail'd" into offering the outer ring villages of Chicagoland is astounding. While Elwood has the majority of warehouses currently, plenty more within a half hour to one hour radius North and West have popped up as well, with each offering new sets of tax breaks for companies to move into once the tax breaks expire for the current property.

              I worked with one laborer from Morris, IL who said that every few years a new warehouse facility would open along I-80 just an exit or two west of existing ones, allowing companies to jump from building to building to save taxes.
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              • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

                Privatize the profits, socialize the losses. PG&E preparing for bankruptcy ahead of potential liability over starting two years worth of California wildfires.


                *edit*
                The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection is still investigating the fire's cause, but PG&E says it experienced issues at part of its electrical system near where the fire broke out. Cal Fire says the Camp Fire began Nov. 8 at 6:33 a.m. local time on Pulga Road in Butte County — and PG&E sent an official notice to the California Public Utilities Commission describing an outage on one of its transmission lines at Pulga Road at 6:15 a.m.
                But we were told that terrible forest management was the cause?
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                • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

                  Originally posted by aparch View Post
                  Privatize the profits, socialize the losses. PG&E preparing for bankruptcy ahead of potential liability over starting two years worth of California wildfires.


                  *edit*

                  But we were told that terrible forest management was the cause?
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                  • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

                    Originally posted by aparch View Post
                    Privatize the profits, socialize the losses. PG&E preparing for bankruptcy ahead of potential liability over starting two years worth of California wildfires.


                    *edit*

                    But we were told that terrible forest management was the cause?
                    put a woman in charge...
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                    • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

                      Originally posted by aparch View Post
                      Privatize the profits, socialize the losses. PG&E preparing for bankruptcy ahead of potential liability over starting two years worth of California wildfires.


                      *edit*

                      But we were told that terrible forest management was the cause?
                      Wouldn't have spread so fast if they had raked...
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                      • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

                        They misspelled "90."

                        Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) says it’s time for Democrats to embrace a 70 percent marginal tax rate on income above $10 million in a “full-throated manner.”

                        The freshman lawmaker says “it’s not surprising” that nearly 60 percent of respondents in a new Hill.TV poll support the idea that some of her Democratic colleagues in Congress shy away from.

                        “This is a policy that is already popular and it's time that we embrace working Americans and it's time that the Democratic Party fights in a full-throated manner for the working class in the United States and to not support a marginal tax rate is to really just allow runaway wealth and inequality to persist,” she told Hill.TV.

                        The Hill-HarrisX poll conducted Jan. 12-13 found 59 percent of registered voters support a 70 percent marginal rate on income above $10 million.
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                        • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

                          Scott Walker continuing to lie:



                          He's really burying the lede here. This kid has already earned top cap ($500k? $1Mil?) in reportable income from chores causing the top bracket of the marginal tax rate to kick in.

                          Also, Walker is being ratio'd pretty hard over this.
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                          • Originally posted by aparch View Post
                            Scott Walker continuing to lie:



                            He's really burying the lede here. This kid has already earned top cap ($500k? $1Mil?) in reportable income from chores causing the top bracket of the marginal tax rate to kick in.

                            Also, Walker is being ratio'd pretty hard over this.
                            Ratio'd?

                            'Splain. I'm an old dude, not hip to all this hipster lingo.
                            What kind of cheese are you planning to put on top?

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                            • Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                              They misspelled "90."
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                              • Originally posted by mookie1995 View Post
                                Good god does mookie want to nail her dlb
                                Mook, she's not Asian.
                                What kind of cheese are you planning to put on top?

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