At the expense of workers, consumers, animals, community, and planet.... Stock buybacks were illegal until 1982, when the Reagan Revolution turned market manipulation into an art form. It's a system of corporate tyranny that increases the fortunes of a few at the expense of the many. This will not end until we end it. #DisruptTheSystem marianne2024.com
Stunning figure. The White House’s National Economic Council reports that major corporations are spending roughly 90% of their earnings on stock buybacks and dividends. What’s left for investment? Not much, unless these corporations are taking on debt. -R

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If you had NO PROBLEM with the company ISSUING stock, why would you be mad when they wish to BUY IT BACK? @RalphNader Lots of smoke and mirrors for finding new ways to tax people where they won't "feel it". @davidharsanyi
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We can't end it or ANY injustice by keeping either/both Fascist Parties in power or by running in a Primary that can legally be rigged and manipulated. #Tulsi2024 #IndependentMajority #IndysHaveHadEnough @TulsiGabbard
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Please commit to making stock buybacks illegal again 🙏
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Watch as @marwilliamson praises Biden, repeatedly, who not incidentally, voted to block regulations that would have prevented banks from collapsing. MW IS a genocide denier & @briebriejoy runs cover for her; they are friends. youtube.com/u1-sUVmjtAs
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A truly sociopathic economic system.
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They are NOT reinvesting back into their companies ... This is why we had brakes on our Trains with technology that dates back to the Civil War!
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What are you talking about? It is a legitimate mechanism for a company to return cash to owners when the company management has no better allocation for that cash.
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you are a Liar.. Go away and live off your lies
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Reagan only did what he was installed to do. He was chosen to bring Neoliberal economic and political philosophy to power. Which is what you are complaining about and every Dem President after him did nothing about for the same reason Reagan did it.