Berichten zufolge planen Tech-Milliardäre einen 500-Millionen-Dollar-Fonds zur Umgestaltung der kalifornischen Politik
https://www.kron4.com/news/technology-ai/tech-billionaires-reportedly-plotting-500m-fund-to-reshape-california-politics/
Berichten zufolge planen Tech-Milliardäre einen 500-Millionen-Dollar-Fonds zur Umgestaltung der kalifornischen Politik
https://www.kron4.com/news/technology-ai/tech-billionaires-reportedly-plotting-500m-fund-to-reshape-california-politics/
41 Kommentare
With enough BBQ sauce, we could fix this.
Money shouldn’t influence politics. That’s a first class ticket to fucking up your society.
Edit: removing punctuation typo
They don’t even have to hide bribery any more.
Way you have come, USA!
Money buys anything…. Except immortality
> Apparently stung by efforts to bring a proposed “billionaire tax” to the ballot next fall, tech billionaires are reportedly plotting an effort to reshape California politics in their favor. That’s according to a report in Bloomberg that Silicon Valley billionaires are proposing a multi-million-dollar fund to ramp up a political machine to represent the uber rich and the tech elite.
Remember this the next time someone tries to tell you that voting doesn’t do anything, or that „your vote doesn’t matter“.
If that was truly the case, then why would the rich spend so much money on making sure elections go their way?
So we’re calling lobbying and bribes „funds“ now very cool
Eat the rich
I am accepting donations.
See if we had taxed the rich this wouldn’t be possible
Pure greed. At every point they display a complete and total lack of humanity. Tax them out of existence.
Imagine if they used the 500m to pay their taxes???
It’s a big club. And you aint in it!
I thought the rich would just move if someone raised taxes…
That $500 million could surely use some taxing right about now….
They hate Texas
Watch over the next few months as opinions start to change regarding various topics here. Reddit is almost always targeted by such campaigns.
So they can turn every worker in the state into a serf?
ENOUGH. Time to eat that class before they eat us all!
This country is washed.
Billionaires are ruining the world
These Tech moguls are choosing a time to do this when their public approval ratings are about as low as Trump’s is in the state, so they will need to spend a crazy amount to essentially fool voters into thinking this is positive for average citizen
They will spend more to prevent paying taxes than just paying taxes
Billionaires are the problem ? I think so
Is swalwell part of this circle? Anyone up on this?
Wait, I thought they were all fleeing the state?
This tells you everything about the taxes they are NOT paying. 500M is peanuts.
Tax the rich
These fucking billionaires pay for lobbyists, public relations, politicians, and more rather than paying taxes. We are all peasants to them!!!!
I just find funny how some Americans laude themselves or their country as incorruptible but lobbying is just a fancy word for legalized corruption
Thank Citizens United. This is what happens when the Supreme Court says we’re not a country of „one citizen, one vote“, but „one dollar, one vote“.
I believe billionaires should regularly pay into the system infinitely more than they do …..BUT a „one time wealth tax“ to prop up California’s bloated public healthcare system for a year or two at the request of the healthcare union seems like a waste of the wealth tax…. because they will use all the „one time“ funds up quickly and then what??
California is constantly looking for ways to raise taxes – even after they’ve already raised taxes – often with voter approval for the exact same thing – think Los Angeles County and homeless funding – then they proceed to flush all the funds down the toilet – only to ask for more.
Again, I think billionaires should pay wayyyyyyyyy more – maybe fund Soc Sec. and Medicare on full income!! But a one time tax that will be quickly siphoned off will leave California in the same perilous financial mess they are already in.
America really is the perfect example of a failing state, what happens when you let corporations and big tech completely dominate your country. Speed running cyberpunk 2077.
Re-read the headline and insert another countries name and think about how insane it sounds.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MarkMyWords/comments/1kadxzq/mmw_western_states_especially_california_will/
I basically fucking predicted this a year ago. I only received one comment.
These tech billionaires should give back all the subsides they have been given and fuck right off!
This is why the top federal income tax bracket should return to 90%. When they have half a billion dollars to fuck with 1 state’s elections, they have too much.
they will burn down the world to save a dollar
One way or another, we have to get rid of this infestation
They don’t like Texas and Tennessee as much as they claimed?
Citizens United strikes again.
I just want a single reporter to ask a billionaire how much money is enough for them.
Just not even hiding their anti-democratic tendencies anymore.
Well if you can win of Texas or California it is likely to go national. So count those dollars and the tech industry. Probably pennies on the dollar for their investment.