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LordCrom ,

Because the gov gets it’s cut. That’s why. It’s easier to keep 1 big corp happy so long as they shuffle over that 15% or less.

Plus, no one in gov wants to be the one that forced a large corp to shutdown costing a bunch of normal people jobs.

Why do you think military contractors setup factories in all 50 states to make 1 type of aircraft… Senators that don’t want more fighter jets? Well the factory that employs 2000 of it’s citizens might just have to close down then … Oh I see you changes your mind …here’s a campaign contribution instead

jkrtn ,

If the government was motivated by getting a cut we’d still have correct tax rates for billionaires. Unfortunately, everything in government is done by corrupt individuals whose signatures can be purchased for laughably small amounts. It’s exactly as you point out, one campaign contribution and they will sign whatever legislation you want.

Same with SCOTUS but they don’t have campaigns so you have to straight-up bribe them with RVs or luxury fishing trips.

AngryCommieKender ,

nytimes.com/…/qualified-immunity-supreme-court.ht…

Though they refer indirectly to the 1982 SCOTUS case of Harlow V Fitzgerald, this law applies to politicians and judges as well as police. They just haven’t upheld it in over 150 years, because someone illegally changed the law in 1874, and it wasn’t noticed until last year.

Ulysses S Grant referenced section 1983 of the federal code when he was pulled over, for the third time in his life, in 1872, while sitting as president, for “speeding on a horse in the city limits of Washington DC.” The officer tried to let him go, and he said that Congress had just passed a law about that, and no one, not even a sitting president, is above the law. He paid the ticket. The other two times he was pulled over he was only a general, and it was in the early 1860s while a minor bit of treason and insurrection was going on.

melpomenesclevage ,

Almost right. Right direction at least.

Jyek ,

I had an employer who would tell us that we were committing “Time Theft” any time we were on the clock and not actively working on something at any moment of the day. When California DoL started cracking down on my city, my employer started complaining about government overreach and “State Sanctioned Time Theft” when he was required to give us 2x 15 min breaks on the clock on top of a whopping 30 minutes off the clock for lunch.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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I had an employer who tried to make us clock out if we were at work and there was no actual work for us to do.

Thankfully, he was the sort of employer you could literally say “go fuck yourself” to and not get fired. Which every one of the handful of employees at his small business did. So he went back on that.

IsThisAnAI , (edited )

Because fines correlate with monetary theft? Also, .04% of the gdp of only America. Big numbers so scary!

Topkek.

rockSlayer ,

Wage theft isn’t a “fine”. It’s when a company illegally withholds wages from workers for hours worked.

IsThisAnAI ,

They didn’t take that amount. That was the amount fined. You notice how they worded all that shit ambiguously?

Even if it were a dollar for dollar comparison you are taking .04% of the economy of just the states. That’s a very low percentage of the overall economy.

rockSlayer ,

This image is from a study by the Economic Policy Institute, and it’s purely the amount of wages stolen from workers. You notice how the source adds important context?

Even if it’s a sliver of a fraction of the total economy, those numbers represent millions of lives getting fucked over by the company they work for and have little power to stop.

TimewornTraveler ,

As if the logic of “Oh you think stealing is bad? Try stealing an entire nation’s GDP then we’ll talk” wasn’t troll enough, seeing someone say “topkek” is the easiest way to know it’s fine to block them. Worst case scenario you’re not actually a troll you just had a really, really stupid moment which could be forgiven but alas not by me not this time

SwingingKoala ,
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Meanwhile bankers print another trillion USD every 100 days…

boatswain ,

I think you mean “than other thieves stole.” Don’t want to accidentally imply they aren’t thieves.

HiddenLayer5 ,

The thieves that get arrested vs the thieves that end up on magazines celebrating their theft.

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