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return2ozma@lemmy.world to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml · 21 days ago

88 Corporations That Paid No US Federal Income Tax in 2025 Spent $852 Million on Recent Lobbying, Elections

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88 Corporations That Paid No US Federal Income Tax in 2025 Spent $852 Million on Recent Lobbying, Elections

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml · 21 days ago
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88 Corporations That Paid No US Federal Income Tax in 2025 Spent $852 Million on Recent Lobbying, Elections | Common Dreams
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"The result," said the author of a new Public Citizen analysis, "is a self-reinforcing loop where corporate cash buys policy, and policy pays cash back."
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  • workerONE@lemmy.world
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    Politics itself seems like a business

    • Zachariah@lemmy.world
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      glorious cake day to you

      • workerONE@lemmy.world
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        Ha, thanks!

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    This genuinely makes me sick atm. Does anyone of you have ideas what we (in the West in general. Im from Germany, but it’s not much different here) can realistically do to countermeasure any if this?

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      At this point a revolution or enough threat of a revolution happening that capitalists are forced to make serious reforms, otherwise they’ll just keep shitting on us. As long as they’re not threatened they won’t stop.

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    Bargain.

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    88 huh?

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      Odd number for the list, okay. Not 12 more? One less? Not any other number?

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      More than 85!

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    The companies don’t appear to be listed in an easy to boycott fashion

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