Re:Companies Use Borrowed Billions to Buy Back Stock, Not to...
by dumbfoundded on Saturday August 10, 2019 @07:14PM
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If you had a heart, you may care about the financial outcomes for other people. And if you had any sense, you would realize balancing economic inequality remains precarious and our current levels are closest to the period right before the depression.
Socialism isn't an absolute, it's a spectrum. Most people don't seem to care about the lack of privatized fire fighting as it existed in ancient Rome.
Re:Companies Use Borrowed Billions to Buy Back Stock, Not to...
by TAForObvReasons on Saturday August 10, 2019 @07:15PM
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I'm in complete agreement with you, but we're on a forum with many people who have had great financial success and definitely benefit short-term from the tax policies. That's the reality of the community.
Re:Companies Use Borrowed Billions to Buy Back Stock, Not to...
by dumbfoundded on Saturday August 10, 2019 @07:27PM
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I would add that I'm one of the people who's benefited. There seems to be an unspoken belief that progressives are only those who have lost economically. I've gone from an ivy-league education to a 6-figure salary out of college to self-funding a profitable business making $4M/year. I'm also in my mid 20s.
In my business, almost all of my employees are low-skill. I pay everyone at least a living wage and it's impossible to ignore the realities of their lives. When I make more money, it goes to our savings. When I give an employee a raise, they buy something they need immediately, like a new car or new clothes.
Re:Companies Use Borrowed Billions to Buy Back Stock, Not to...
by WalterBright on Saturday August 10, 2019 @09:17PM
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Your savings go into a bank, which loans it out to people who spend it.
Re:Companies Use Borrowed Billions to Buy Back Stock, Not to...
by spiralx on Monday August 12, 2019 @09:47AM
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Banks don't loan out deposits, their ability to make loans isn't dependent upon savings:
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
Re:Companies Use Borrowed Billions to Buy Back Stock, Not to...
by JCharante on Sunday August 11, 2019 @03:15AM
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people like his employees who get a loan to pay for their new car.
Re:Companies Use Borrowed Billions to Buy Back Stock, Not to...
by WalterBright on Sunday August 11, 2019 @03:43AM
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Yes. Nobody borrows money and sits on the cash, they take loans to spend it.
In fact, due to fractional reserve banking, a multiple of the amount put into a savings account is loaned out and spent!
> Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
If you were aspiring to be the next Bezos or Gates, you too might be inclined to support tax policies that would benefit your future self.