DaButt
Wednesday 18th July 2012 2:06pm [Edited]
14,722 posts
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ July 18 2012, 2:45 PM BST
Let's start with your tax money going to bail out the banks and mortgage companies
Irresponsible and unsustainable government spending, much of it due to government policy and failures in the first place.
move quickly forwards to the cost of cleaning up the various oil spills
The cleanup was paid for by BP and the other parties involved. I believe they are required by law to maintain large amounts of cash to pay for potential damages. (That's a good example to follow for other corporations involved in huge government contracts.)
add to that the cost of treating all of the victims of illegal toxic dumping, unresearched drugs and poisonous crop sprays and building materials.
I think you'll find that they are very well researched and regulated and that any damages are paid for by the corporation.
We can also look up how much you are paying for your health insurance
Less than $100 per month. I can expect that to rise substantially (10x, maybe?) no that our president has made it a legal obligation that we all hand our money over to the insurance companies.
then include them with the cartels illeagally overcharging for your energy, petrol, interest rates, household commodities, mobile communications, computer software and even how much you pay for cheese.
Now you're just being silly.
Then we can factor in the cost of failed infrastructure projects, class action law suits, Senate committees, the private sector overcharging the government for every product and service, the various Medicare scams, corporate bailouts for failing industries, moving jobs from US soil to abroad, your tax money bailing out shareholders and wholesale tax avoidance on an industrial scale.
Most of that sounds like the results of poor government policy.[/quote]That's not even factoring in the environmental, social and health problems that these corporations excel at. Each evil action rippling out into your community and causing problems which you end up paying for.[/quote]
So what is the answer? Do we go full commie, comrade?