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Voter suppression laws support

mercredi 7 avril 2021 à 02:00

Public pressure has convinced some large companies to condemn Georgia's voter suppression laws — after supporting the campaigns of the Republican legislators that passed them.

*Corporations Gave $50 Million to GOP Lawmakers Behind Voter Suppression Onslaught.*

Additional Republican-controlled states are passing similar laws. To get these companies to pressure additional states, we will need to keep up the pressure on them.

Illegal retaliation

mercredi 7 avril 2021 à 02:00

*NLRB Says Amazon Firing of Workers Who Demanded Better Climate, Labor Policies Was Illegal Retaliation.*

Global minimum tax rate on corporations

mercredi 7 avril 2021 à 02:00

Treasury Secretary Yellen called for a global minimum tax rate on corporations.

I support this; however, to make it truly effective will require global agreement on limiting deductions and blocking tax evasion.

Opposing taxing rich

mercredi 7 avril 2021 à 02:00

(satire) *Man Opposes Taxing Rich Because He Knows One Day He Could Find $20 Bill On Ground.*

Legal observers

mercredi 7 avril 2021 à 02:00

British thugs arrested legal observers present outside a protest in Briston to give legal aid to protesters that were arrested.

The thugs could not have failed to recognize that they were legal observers.

Describing all of the Briston protests together as "sometimes violent, sometimes not" misrepresents them. Most of the protesters were nonviolent while sometimes certain protesters started violence.