Current Events > So I'm getting a $1000 bonus thanks to tax cuts

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How do people not see right through this?

My multi billion dollar corporation gets a 14% tax cut so they pass on literal crumbs to their employees

Why does anyone think this is any more than them buying some one time positive publicity?
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Agreed. I sent my bonus check right back

Fucking greedy companies

TheGoldenEel posted...

How do people not see right through this?

My multi billion dollar corporation gets a 14% tax cut so they pass on literal crumbs to their employees

Why does anyone think this is any more than them buying some one time positive publicity?

That is exactly what it is... Buying publicity with peanuts...
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Romes187 posted...

Agreed. I sent my bonus check right back

Fucking greedy companies

i dont understand your point

FrenchCrunch posted...

Romes187 posted...

Agreed. I sent my bonus check right back

Fucking greedy companies

i dont understand your point

If my company isn't going to give me a real bonus or actually increase my damn pay then fuck them. I'm not gonna let them use me as a way to politically grandstand

FrenchCrunch posted...

Romes187 posted...

Agreed. I sent my bonus check right back

Fucking greedy companies

i dont understand your point

There is no point

He's making a joke
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Like do they think were stupid? The email I got about this basically says were going to use or billion+ dollars a year permanent savings to give a one time payout of $12 million to our employees

Lets check the math on that and see if that is more than literal crumbs
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I'll take your 1k if you don't want it.

Invest it and turn it into 2k.
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TheGoldenEel posted...

Like do they think were stupid? The email I got about this basically says were going to use or billion+ dollars a year permanent savings to give a one time payout of $12 million to our employees

Lets check the math on that and see if that is more than literal crumbs

What company is it since it's saving billions?
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TheGoldenEel posted...

Like do they think were stupid?

Yes
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If it is anything like mine, you'll lose over 30% of it to thieves known as the government.
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TheGoldenEel posted...

Like do they think were stupid? The email I got about this basically says were going to use or billion+ dollars a year permanent savings to give a one time payout of $12 million to our employees

Lets check the math on that and see if that is more than literal crumbs

We got a $30 Christmas bonus, which amounts to just over a $5000 payout for the company. Last week our owner had to tell us she donated $10000 to charity.
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Wah free money
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TheGoldenEel posted...

Like do they think were stupid?

just wait until this topic starts to reflect the generally held view on this board and then ask that again

these people worship their masters. they lap up the crumbs and then ridicule you for not grovelling.

TheGoldenEel posted...

Like do they think were stupid? The email I got about this basically says were going to use or billion+ dollars a year permanent savings to give a one time payout of $12 million to our employees

Heaven forbid a company use some of its money for things besides giving their employees extra cash.

Also it's Wal-Mart for those wondering.

Couldn't give you a $1,000 raise though
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ChouBF posted...

TheGoldenEel posted...

Like do they think were stupid? The email I got about this basically says were going to use or billion+ dollars a year permanent savings to give a one time payout of $12 million to our employees

Heaven forbid a company use some of its money for things besides giving their employees extra cash.

Also it's Wal-Mart for those wondering.

I dont work in retail

theAteam posted...

Couldn't give you a $1,000 raise though

Right? It would be far less transparent/insulting if they used their permanent huge tax cut to give me a raise of $1000 instead of these one-time peanuts
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TheGoldenEel posted...

How do people not see right through this?

My multi billion dollar corporation gets a 14% tax cut so they pass on literal crumbs to their employees

Why does anyone think this is any more than them buying some one time positive publicity?

You know they could have given employees jack shit right?
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captsplatter_1 posted...

TheGoldenEel posted...

How do people not see right through this?

My multi billion dollar corporation gets a 14% tax cut so they pass on literal crumbs to their employees

Why does anyone think this is any more than them buying some one time positive publicity?

You know they could have given employees jack shit right?

Isnt the whole way the republicans were trying to sell people on tax reform by saying that corporations will pass on their savings to the employees?

Now its their prerogative whether they give me jack shit or not?

Which is it?
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Well, I think the general idea is that whats good for business is good for consumers and the public at large. This has routinely proved false and has resulted in low wages and done zero for employment, but its a routinely asserted concept
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Create your own business if youre not happy with your pay.
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Omnislasher posted...

TheGoldenEel posted...

Like do they think were stupid?

just wait until this topic starts to reflect the generally held view on this board and then ask that again

these people worship their masters. they lap up the crumbs and then ridicule you for not grovelling.

Pushing aside what constitutes as "crumbs", as all employers are different in size and contribute differently to their employees-----

I'd rather be getting "crumbs" than nothing if Hillary were president. Employers are giving out bonuses and Trump is taking less out of people's paychecks. Tax paying families will save $1,000 per child under Trump. Those who don't earn enough to pay taxes will also receive a check per child.

Let me know what Hillary would have done. Let me know what Obama did, because there's many poor, disadvantaged families that are going to be saving $5,000+ under Trump.
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you guys with the constant 'but the democrats' deflection sound so fucking stupid

can't comprehend that intelligent people are also completely fed up with and critical of dems

the tax cut is a massive wealth transfer from the bottom to the top, simple as that. you're supposed to take your crumbs and be happy and not pay attention to that fact.

what these average people are receiving in the form of these paltry cuts and one-time bonuses they will lose much more due to cuts to social spending, which will be justified by the lack of public funds which itself is a result of loss of tax revenue from the wealthiest corporations thanks to their cuts. not that many of them were paying much if anything anyway thanks to loopholes and straight up illegal shenanigans. sick joke.