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    Es ist an der Zeit, der Oligarchie die Finanzierung zu entziehen und in das amerikanische Volk zu investieren

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    1. zsreport on

      The opening of the commentary:

      >Trump ran on a promise to lower costs on day one, but a year into his presidency, the real beneficiaries are his billionaire donors. Instead of making life more affordable for everyday Americans, Trump has used the presidency to enrich himself and his billionaire allies, while making the largest cuts to Medicaid and food assistance in history and leaving working families behind.

    2. nasorrty346tfrgser on

      you cant defund the oligarchy because they are everywhere. You can’t even boycott them, because they controlled all the resources in the US. It is like oh we are not going to olive garden but going to another chain restaurant, but if you trace back up they are all owned by same big corporation.

      And they owned both of the parties, and if someone like Newsom get elected then would just be the same. Unless we really elect someone that would put an end to corporate welfare and tax the rich, we won’t see any change

    4. Fastluck83 on

      Nice thought, but letting rich guys and their businesses do whatever they want seems to be the only economic vision that exists in the US these days, and every kind of tax or regulation is branded as un-American because personal freedom trumps everything else.

      Defunding the oligarchy is like step 3, but US didn’t even take step 1, yet.

    5. Quirky_Atmosphere_96 on

      The oligarchy ain’t gonna vote for this. What’s your next great idea?

    6. elementality883 on

      This is the conversation that has been decades in need of attention.
      It’s at the tipping point where comfortable living is no longer possible and people need to recognize it is not because of immigrants, but the billionaire class who sews divide amongst us who have more in common.

    7. Bubbly-Two-3449 on

      If you want to defund the oligarchy, enforce antitrust and fund elections with public money.

      (but we also should stop funding a company whose leader emailed jeffrey epstein on christmas day asking about when he could party on Epstein’s pedophile island. )

    8. Puzzled-Dress-4904 on

      🎵
      _Beautiful dreamer_

      _Wake unto me_

      _Starlight and dewdrops_

      _Are waiting for thee_
      🎶

      The Guardian is living in la-la land.

    9. NoReserve7293 on

      The time is way overdue. Great damage has been done, Americans need to find a commonality and get money the fuck out of politics.

    10. athornton79 on

      Take us back to the „good old days“ – you know, that time that MAGA dreams is so great? But only in the ways THEY want. Instead, focus on the parts they don’t! Restore the 90% tax rate on the top! Revise the tax laws so that their „borrowing“ means of utilizing their wealth without paying taxes actually owes taxes! Close that loophole forever.

      „But the rich will leave!“ Yeah, just like they did back in the 60’s and 70’s, right? Oh, what’s that, they didn’t leave? Surprise surprise.

    12. Arizona_Pete on

      Let’s assume you have been alive for 250 years – Since the founding of the Republic.

      Let’s also assume that since that time you’ve made $70,000 a week ($280,000 a month) every week with no change for inflation. Just a static amount.

      If both of those things were true, you ***still*** wouldn’t have made a Billion dollars over that time.

      I genuinely do not mind millionaires, I aspire to be one myself. However, we need a second Teddy Roosevelt to rise up and break up the extreme oligarchy and wealth inequality we have seen since the 1980s.

    13. HowardBunnyColvin on

      Fuck the oligarchs, every single one. Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk. Fuck them all old country way.

    15. Judgeman2021 on

      If we only had a Congress that wasn’t profiting more than Wall Street

    20. forthewatch39 on

      Gotta get enough people to stop lavishing the wealthy in the hopes that one day they will be one of them. How many times have you read something like “Well I never got a job from a poor man”? Until we stop fighting amongst ourselves, such an endeavor will be difficult to overcome. 

    21. Avoidtolls on

      Withdraw all your money from the bank. Get enough people to do it and you might get their attention.

    23. Lucas_OnTop on

      There’s no mechanism for the American People to give feedback to the government and tell them what they need/ what to invest in.

      Average people don’t go to town halls, and the only way we’re considered is where our dollars get spent.

      This should be a no taxation without representation moment, not a pow-wow for elites to tell us they’ll take care of how to invest in the American people.

    26. siraliases on

      Does anyone actually think decently of the US Government at this point? It’s either Pedos or Nazis

    27. Status-Secret-4292 on

      Just think, we could of had this already started in 2016 with Bernie Sanders

    28. parkinthepark on

      This starts in the Democratic Primaries.

      Support *progressive* Democrats in the primaries **and don’t fall for the „they can’t win against a Republican“ lie*****.***

      Establishment (Corporate) Dems love to scare you into thinking that only a „moderate“ can win. They are lying because they’re scared.

      Give em the boot.

    30. Creative-Package6213 on

      This is what needs to happen to our oligarchs, they get to chose one of two options:

      1. Any net worth over $1,000,000,000 gets taxed at 99% and goes to the government.

      2. Can contribute to public works and get a tax credit of up to 40% on income (ie. social security, public schools, public infrastructure, museums, libraries, etc…)

      Either way these obscenely rich fucks need to be made to pay their fair share.

    33. Quercus20 on

      Let’s hold the politician responsible ex: fretterman(immigration), schemer(israel). They can’t say one thing and do the opposite. Remove all lobbyists from the government. Remove all tax loopholes from taxes or loopholes over a certain value. All offshore are to be taxed. Only x amount per political donation.

    34. mike0sd on

      Defunding the bastards should only be the start and the oligarchs should consider themselves lucky if the only thing they suffer is a reduction in their worth

    35. tedemang on

      This is, my friends & neighbors, ladies & gents, the quote of the decade:

      ***“Defund the oligarchy.“***

    36. PopularFrontForCake on

      Money and power have become fully interchangeable, so both political parties belong to the oligarchs. What we gonna do?

    37. Kwelikinz on

      May I humbly add, that not only must we (most of us, from all parties) defund the oligarchy, but we must depose lifetime politicians who are working in the interests of themselves, other countries (Russia, Israel, etc.) and close the loopholes from which they operate. We must find a way to use the money for our towns, cities, and states, for their benefit and growth, and remove money from campaigns.

    38. YoungestDonkey on

      Billionaires are capitalism run amok. The essence of capitalism is great: work harder and smarter and you will do better financially than if you work less or poorly. So far, so good. Imagine a young Michael Bloomberg type of entrepreneur who works at designing and producing his computerized investment platform to sell to large investors. Do you suppose he hopes to become a multi-millionaire from it? Probably so, and that’s a good thing, a strong incentive to get things done. But do you think he would refrain from that effort unless he thought he would become a multi-*billionaire* instead of a mere millionaire? I don’t believe so. I don’t believe the financial incentive requires the possibility of becoming a billionaire, or the expectation of unbound riches. Capitalism functions perfectly well without that possibility: people would still work hard and focus on their goal or their dream even if reaching a billion dollar mark wasn’t possible. Millions and millions are sufficient, there is no „need“ for the possibility of becoming billionaire in order to energize the economy. On the other hand, the loss of democratic power is a significant drawback of obscene fortunes as oligarchs can have more impact on society than the people’s will can have, through their votes. Excessive wealth enables corruption and legalized bribery (lobbying) that can nullify the effect of elections. The republic is no longer controlled by the will of the people but by the wealth of the few. The nation turns into a feudal system with a bunch of kings of their own domain and a figurehead at the top doing what the wealthy push him to do, both anonymously and openly. The oligarch problem is a problem for democracy. You can’t have both. A choice must be made.

    41. DanDanDan0123 on

      We had this with the Infrastructure bill, inflation reduction act, SNAP and ACA subsidies. The Americans that didn’t vote choose not to invest in American people!!

    43. weristjonsnow on

      The exact shit that Bernie has been saying for 50 fuckin years but he’s „extremist“. Yeah, I think we can all confidently say he isn’t. In fact he is and has been right.

    44. 44diesel on

      We need money out of politics. Ban all pac money and overturn citizen United. Political campaigns should be publicly funded (each candidate gets the same fixed amount of money to work with). Public office should be a service. If you’ve been convicted of a crime, you can’t be a politician.

      Also, we need ranked choice voting and if you are a US citizen over 18, you are automatically registered to vote (it’s your choice whether or not to exercise that right).

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