Tucker Carlson vs The Alt Left (Video)
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Yes, but he is right only 99.9% of the time. A week ago Tucker Carlson channeled Bernie Sanders & shamed Amazon’s Jeff Bezos for not paying employees enough. That shocked me.
"Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world. Many of his employees are so poor, you’re paying their welfare benefits. And he’s not the only tech billionaire offloading his payroll costs onto taxpayers. This is an indefensible scam. Why is only Bernie talking about it?"---Tucker Carlson
"This is not a scam. This is capitalism. It CREATES wealth. For everyone. Amazon and its cost cutting has saved Americans billions of dollars. "---John Stossel
"Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world. Many of his employees are so poor, you’re paying their welfare benefits. And he’s not the only tech billionaire offloading his payroll costs onto taxpayers. This is an indefensible scam. Why is only Bernie talking about it?"---Tucker Carlson
"This is not a scam. This is capitalism. It CREATES wealth. For everyone. Amazon and its cost cutting has saved Americans billions of dollars. "---John Stossel
LOL!! Do you mean to tell me that Tucker is only right 99.9% of the time? Great post. 
I'm in agreement with Tucker Carson on this. Welfare to support people and business is bad. With people, I can understand it. If it's to get them on their feet, not if it breeds dependency. It's never the task of taxpayers to bail out businesses. Either they stand on their own two feet or they fail. End Of. No lame ducks.
Edit, I'm also against using poor developing country's workers to undercut workers in the developed world.
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Sorry, but as a convived Thatcherite, NO! No to supporting lame duck businesses, not now not ever.
So you agree not only with Tucker Carlson, but with Democrat Socialist Bernie Sanders? Maybe not after you read this.
Bernie Sanders' Latest Brilliant Idea To Grow The Economy — Stop BEZOS
9/06/2018
Politics of Envy: Bernie Sanders, who never held a steady job until he started getting paid by taxpayers, thinks Amazon should pay its workers more. And if it doesn't, he wants to tax Amazon for each "underpaid" employee, to finance government benefits. Even Bernie's friends think he's off the rails.
Sanders, never one for subtlety, calls his new bill the "Stop BEZOS Act." It would impose a tax on each worker employed by any company that hires more than 500 people. The tax would cover 100% of the cost of whatever federal benefits those workers or their families might also be getting.
The claim made by Sanders and other leftists is that low wages paid by big companies like Amazon mean that plenty of its employees must rely on food stamps, Medicaid, and the like, to make ends meet. In effect, Sanders says, taxpayers are subsidizing low wages paid by Amazon, Walmart, McDonalds, and the like. So why not recoup those government costs directly from these skinflint companies?
"We do not believe that taxpayers should have to expend huge sums of money subsidizing profitable corporations owned by some of the wealthiest people in this country. That's what a rigged economy is about," Sanders says.
But Sanders' plan is so woefully misguided that even liberals say it's a bad idea.
First, the very premise of his bill is flawed. Sanders claims that "low wages cost taxpayers $152.8 billion per year" because these workers rely on federal programs.
The figure comes from the UC Berkeley Labor Center. But to arrive at that figure, the researchers there included in its definition of "working families" those putting in as little as 10 hours a week, 27 weeks of the year. It's hardly surprising that some of these part-time, transient workers rely on government benefits, but that's not Amazon's fault.
Sanders also cites numbers produced by dubious union-backed and partisan "studies." His claim that Walmart's low wages cost taxpayers $6.2 billion is based on a Democratic report that put together grossly inflated numbers from one state.
Second, forcing the cost of labor higher will lead to fewer jobs, increasing dependency on government.
Amazon, to its credit, hit back at Sanders. It notes that he lumps in "people who worked for Amazon for a short period of time and/or chose to work part time" as being "underpaid."
Amazon's statement goes on to say that "While Sen. Sanders plays politics and makes misleading accusations, we are expending real money and effort upskilling people with our Career Choice program."
Touche.
Bernie Sanders' Plan: Too Leftist For Liberals
Sanders is even getting blowback from liberals.
A report from the left-wing Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, for example, warns that Sanders bill would "create powerful incentives for employers to seek to minimize their hiring of workers who are in low-income families and, thus, more likely to qualify for Medicaid or nutrition or housing assistance."
The liberal Vox.com quotes University of Chicago public policy professor Bruce Meyer saying "I'm skeptical that raising the cost to successful firms of hiring more employees is a good idea."
Ya think?
The timing of Sanders bill makes no sense either. Businesses right now are beating the bushes looking for people willing to work. The unemployment rate among blacks and Hispanics is at record lows. New jobless claims hit a 49-year low this week. Household income is at record highs.
If Bernie Sanders wants to cut down on government dependency, he should be pulling for Trump's pro-growth tax cuts and deregulation, which are fueling today's hiring binge and boosting incomes. Not pushing ill-conceived, job killing new taxes.
In other words, the Stop BEZOS Act is an idea that only someone as clueless about the private sector as Bernie Sanders could embrace.
Unfortunately, the ranks of the Democratic Party are rapidly filling up with people like him.
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/bernie-sanders-jeff-bezos-welfare/
Bernie Sanders' Latest Brilliant Idea To Grow The Economy — Stop BEZOS
9/06/2018
Politics of Envy: Bernie Sanders, who never held a steady job until he started getting paid by taxpayers, thinks Amazon should pay its workers more. And if it doesn't, he wants to tax Amazon for each "underpaid" employee, to finance government benefits. Even Bernie's friends think he's off the rails.
Sanders, never one for subtlety, calls his new bill the "Stop BEZOS Act." It would impose a tax on each worker employed by any company that hires more than 500 people. The tax would cover 100% of the cost of whatever federal benefits those workers or their families might also be getting.
The claim made by Sanders and other leftists is that low wages paid by big companies like Amazon mean that plenty of its employees must rely on food stamps, Medicaid, and the like, to make ends meet. In effect, Sanders says, taxpayers are subsidizing low wages paid by Amazon, Walmart, McDonalds, and the like. So why not recoup those government costs directly from these skinflint companies?
"We do not believe that taxpayers should have to expend huge sums of money subsidizing profitable corporations owned by some of the wealthiest people in this country. That's what a rigged economy is about," Sanders says.
But Sanders' plan is so woefully misguided that even liberals say it's a bad idea.
First, the very premise of his bill is flawed. Sanders claims that "low wages cost taxpayers $152.8 billion per year" because these workers rely on federal programs.
The figure comes from the UC Berkeley Labor Center. But to arrive at that figure, the researchers there included in its definition of "working families" those putting in as little as 10 hours a week, 27 weeks of the year. It's hardly surprising that some of these part-time, transient workers rely on government benefits, but that's not Amazon's fault.
Sanders also cites numbers produced by dubious union-backed and partisan "studies." His claim that Walmart's low wages cost taxpayers $6.2 billion is based on a Democratic report that put together grossly inflated numbers from one state.
Second, forcing the cost of labor higher will lead to fewer jobs, increasing dependency on government.
Amazon, to its credit, hit back at Sanders. It notes that he lumps in "people who worked for Amazon for a short period of time and/or chose to work part time" as being "underpaid."
Amazon's statement goes on to say that "While Sen. Sanders plays politics and makes misleading accusations, we are expending real money and effort upskilling people with our Career Choice program."
Touche.
Bernie Sanders' Plan: Too Leftist For Liberals
Sanders is even getting blowback from liberals.
A report from the left-wing Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, for example, warns that Sanders bill would "create powerful incentives for employers to seek to minimize their hiring of workers who are in low-income families and, thus, more likely to qualify for Medicaid or nutrition or housing assistance."
The liberal Vox.com quotes University of Chicago public policy professor Bruce Meyer saying "I'm skeptical that raising the cost to successful firms of hiring more employees is a good idea."
Ya think?
The timing of Sanders bill makes no sense either. Businesses right now are beating the bushes looking for people willing to work. The unemployment rate among blacks and Hispanics is at record lows. New jobless claims hit a 49-year low this week. Household income is at record highs.
If Bernie Sanders wants to cut down on government dependency, he should be pulling for Trump's pro-growth tax cuts and deregulation, which are fueling today's hiring binge and boosting incomes. Not pushing ill-conceived, job killing new taxes.
In other words, the Stop BEZOS Act is an idea that only someone as clueless about the private sector as Bernie Sanders could embrace.
Unfortunately, the ranks of the Democratic Party are rapidly filling up with people like him.
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/bernie-sanders-jeff-bezos-welfare/
What? You want me to condemn Sanders for being right?
Either the Government subsidies industries or it doesn't.
I don't want Taxpayers to subsidies businesses or people. I want a free market economy, that works for businesses that provide needed services and help people stand on their own.
Either the Government subsidies industries or it doesn't.
I don't want Taxpayers to subsidies businesses or people. I want a free market economy, that works for businesses that provide needed services and help people stand on their own.
I'm not American, so elaborate?
What is Sanders trying to make clear?
Froma British point of view, I want people to be as free as they can from Government control. As a "victim" of Government help, you don't want it. I am more enslaved than any of your so-called "slaves" were.
I think we are talking over each other, I want labour costs to be lower and yet at a real market value.
What we all want is the right to apply for good and decent jobs, as taxpayers, and not have to jockey around illegals, refugees...non taxpayers getting in the way. Here in the US, we have many available jobs but when we have illegals running across our borders, well, they take jobs from Americans. Sadly, American will hire them. We don't need illegals in any way in our country. They need to stay in Mexico and let their government provide for them. I will never hire an illegal to clean my home or mow my lawn. In my state, we actually have choices. I will hire an American citizen who needs a job.
I want the same for the UK too, I don't want people to take jobs from British people. I also don't want talent to be drained from countries that need them too.
"Sanders claims that "low wages cost taxpayers $152.8 billion per year" because these workers rely on federal programs.
The figure comes from the UC Berkeley Labor Center. But to arrive at that figure, the researchers there included in its definition of "working families" those putting in as little as 10 hours a week, 27 weeks of the year. It's hardly surprising that some of these part-time, transient workers rely on government benefits, but that's not Amazon's fault."
"forcing the cost of labor higher will lead to fewer jobs, increasing dependency on government."
Sanders "lumps in "people who worked for Amazon for a short period of time and/or chose to work part time" as being "underpaid.""
"If Bernie Sanders wants to cut down on government dependency, he should be pulling for Trump's pro-growth tax cuts and deregulation, which are fueling today's hiring binge and boosting incomes. Not pushing ill-conceived, job killing new taxes."
The figure comes from the UC Berkeley Labor Center. But to arrive at that figure, the researchers there included in its definition of "working families" those putting in as little as 10 hours a week, 27 weeks of the year. It's hardly surprising that some of these part-time, transient workers rely on government benefits, but that's not Amazon's fault."
"forcing the cost of labor higher will lead to fewer jobs, increasing dependency on government."
Sanders "lumps in "people who worked for Amazon for a short period of time and/or chose to work part time" as being "underpaid.""
"If Bernie Sanders wants to cut down on government dependency, he should be pulling for Trump's pro-growth tax cuts and deregulation, which are fueling today's hiring binge and boosting incomes. Not pushing ill-conceived, job killing new taxes."
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