GOP Ridicules Billionaire Tax Plan, Rude Shoppers Blamed For The Labor Shortage

[@VI5H]

The irony is there's droves of people like my dad who will argue against the billionaire tax even when he's explained how he pays far more taxes as a percentage of income than almost any rich person does. The tax loopholes doesn't bother him as much as the scare tactics of jobs and investment going to other countries, when in reality both have been happening anyways for decades. Convincing ordinary people to side with corporations and the super rich to willingly let them screw them is the best trick pulled on society.

[@goodtroublemaker143]

That trickle-down job-creator nonsense has been proven wrong so many times

[@mori1bund]

@@goodtroublemaker143 The one thing that actually creates jobs is demand. A business only creates new jobs if theirs higher demand for their products to justify that. And to generate demand you have to give the money to people who actually need to spend it immediately (instead of locking it away in a fund with their other money) -> poor & middle class people.

[@Jessica-kk1cz]

Amen to that.

[@David-iv6je]

Easy to get people to vote against their self interest with wedge issues: taxes, immigration, abortion, prayer in school, "take your guns." None of this actually impacts them, but damn you can get folks worked up about it.

[@takiamartin5306]

@@mori1bund tv f f gf f F F F ff

[@matthewturcotte5079]

I work in retail. When the pandemic first began, the amount of abuse that my coworkers received from people was absolutely ridiculous and I admit that before mask mandates came into play, I was having panic attacks because of it. Now that vaccines are available, I feel much better doing my job. It still hasn’t made the worst of the worst nicer, but I’m also starting to realize that I don’t need to take that abuse.

[@wisho-ro4305]

You shouldn't

[@bluntfruntac9981]

Yeah, no fuck that. You don't need to take any abuse at all. I work in retail and when you are trying to be kind to everyone and do a good job sometimes rude people can come out of left field, they can really throw you off because you don't expect people to act like that and like I said your mind is on other things. Where they are ready for a fight or going through their issues or whatever but they are prepared. It's shocking for us and premeditated in a way from them. When people get nasty with me I like to slow things down. Lol. I don't get why people don't understand that. One thing I like to say to myself when I see someone being stupid is that maybe their goldfish died, It helps me realize that they are going through some stuff and the whole gold fish thing helps me not take it too serious. I mean just because they are pissed doesn't mean I need to be. But yeah people can be intense. There is nothing wrong with stopping everything and explain that you'll get your supervisor or manager. Just end it, they can wait (Lol yeah make them wait) let them talk to the manager, they get paid for that. Let us protect ourselves. Like you said you don't need to take that abuse and you're damn right about that. I used to love people, I used to see so many people and wanted to know them all. I loved them, but with Covid I see people don't care about other people. It breaks my heart. I'm having issues finding love for these people. You're not alone my friend. Stay strong.

[@markrobinowitz8473]

When I go into a store now, I pause, take a breath and consider that extra patience may be required. Covid shows how "batty" some people are getting. Sad that people have to endure the nonsense you and your colleagues have received.

[@lakecountynaturalist7617]

I work in retail too. Same thing happened to me. FIGHT BACK! Rudeness is not acceptable anywhere!

[@hectords164]

I worked in retail for years as well and I abused the customer is always right saying in training.....when I found it hilarious to do so. "This was on your clearance rack for 19$" Me: scans item and sees it for 10$" Me: alright that'll be 19$

[@jacobbosley1946]

As a person employed in the service industry for decades, the level of hostility of completely random strangers is higher than in years past. A hostile encounter used to be a once a month, if that, occurrence. Now it's sometimes several times a week.

[@littlelimeaj]

Five years in retail. Quit 3 weeks ago because I could not take the hostile people anymore. Great new job far away for the public. So happy.

[@JG-vo3mh]

Working for Walgreens, a rude encounter happens about every 30 minutes

[@jpdemer5]

Something else we can thank _Il_ _Douche_ for.

[@Gildedmuse]

That sucks and I'm so sorry. I worked at Starbucks during and after the pandemic until a couple months ago and I have to say, that while 80% of things were worse after the pandemic - stocking, wait times, staffing, new regulations that were meant to make us FEEL safe without actually DOING anything except making everything that much more difficult/slower - I am so thankful that the vast majority of our costumers were understanding of the situation! No one liked it, of course, and I know people hated waiting out in our literal 2 hour drive through line, but most of them were either nice or simply apathetic about it (at least, to my face, which is all I care about). It helps that Starbucks has things like "drink comp" and $5 "Sorry" cards that I gave out like I was handing out flyers for my indie band. Just anyone who past through. (Also, because I was the person I think my store all decided was hardest to get going on a proper mad rant with - I tend to just cut people off either with kindness, free stuff or just asking them to wait at the side of the drive while we finished their order. I don't like angry people and my survive instincts kick I'm quick to just be super helpful and nice to get them away from me ASAP) On the other hand, I have friends who work in grocery stores and their lives were HELL. Umm, excuse me, that cashier has absolutely no say about what the store stocks. Maybe back the fuck off this person working for minimum wage in a GODDAMN PANDEMIC so you could get seven jars of peanut butter. Crazy asshole.

[@Repdem]

I blame "social" and corporate Media.

[@sunandstorm]

As someone in the service industry, I can speak for all of my coworkers by saying we are OVER IT. Figure your lives out, people. Please stop taking out your Covid stress and whatever else you’ve got going on on the service industry. We are just trying to do our jobs.

[@lakecountynaturalist7617]

👍

[@julesmasseffectmusic]

if you work for minium wage you dont deserve a living wage or human decency becuase only children should be working for minimum wage becuase child labour is good. children that work, grow slower, are far less healthy therefore needing to spend more disposable income on healthcare and die well before they stop working. If more children worked less would die from school massacres.

[@DoodleThis]

Amen

[@bippinflykefifenhest9003]

@@julesmasseffectmusic Chatterbox from GTA3 had a caller that sounded exactly like you would right now if you HADN'T smoked meth before posting

[@FoolOfATuque]

I worked retail for years and can confirm retail is terrible. Nothing says I need a new job like getting screamed at by a Karen for not accepting her 50 cent coupon that’s 6 months out of date.

[@lakecountynaturalist7617]

Do not tolerate abuse. Kill them with kindness and always use a confident voice to assure them YOU are in control. We continue to risk our lives to give these people the essentials they need and we should not be treated like this. Fight the good fight, my friend.

[@KozuKage4007]

Because of we were out os biscuits that were on sale i got cursed at and the entire store was cursed at to rains blood and for everyone who works here to die an horrible death

[@beershits9340]

I straight up tell them I'll go find my manager for you because I ain't goin to jail over you lol the good thing about the labor shortage is you can get away with shit like that as long as you are a decent employee

[@XxThunderflamexX]

That's right Mitt, just keep insisting the economy is something built for us by our betters. It's not demand for goods and services that create jobs, nah it's the magic pieces of paper that's all concentrated in hands of a tenth of the population.

[@greeneyedlady5580]

*1/10,000 of the population

[@Gildedmuse]

Although, I will say, as someone who has worked in customer service jobs, I did have a lot of rich assholes demanding service from me.

[@XxThunderflamexX]

@@greeneyedlady5580 Oh oops, I did forget tenth *of a percent* of the population in my rant. Well that takes a bit of the punch out of it :/

[@ChrisSmith88love]

That’s Too Small! More Iike $Millions.

[@lenkacfk7155]

Also, I'd like him to explain to me how exactly investing in the stockmarket creates jobs - except maybe for a couple of happy investment bankers, of which vermin we already have more than we need.

[@DavidTanisDreams]

It’s not rude customers, or at least not just rude customers, it’s also stagnant wages, exploitative employers, still a pandemic. Etc.

[@rebeccalarson4523]

Some of it is we're tired. We still had to work while others didn't and got more money on unemployment than we made working and exposing ourselves to the virus. Maybe it's our turn to stay at home now. Perhaps the government should add stimulus checks for those essential workers who kept the country going through this whole darn thing!

[@HannaBenana]

I know my employer is why I left. A total disregard for my health and safety. It doesn't instill loyalty to be treated like you're disposable.

[@kyleoates6367]

@@rebeccalarson4523 So much this. My resort hotel stayed open when the entire mountain closed (letting their employees get the unemployment benefits) during the initial stages of the pandemic. I would have made close to three times as much if my job had shut down too with those benefits... Instead I got Covid, 6 weeks of no pay while recovering, and treated like crap the entire time I was there. If I wasn't remotely savvy about finances, I would have been screwed. As it was, my aunt gave me food and some money that was enough to get me through the 6 weeks of no pay. I quit not long after that. Sold the tiny 400 sq ft condo I had a mortgage on that I just barely afforded with a few hundred left over per month, and moved back to my home city to live with family while I go back to school with the little bit I got out of the condo due to the insane inflation in housing after just two years. As it stands, I'll still probably need about 15-20K in student loans to graduate though... but hopefully I'll be able to focus entirely on my education without having to work on the side.

[@followthewolves1991]

Wages stopped going up in the 60s iirc. I've read that if they kept increasing with the cost of living, minimum wage would be in the high 20s an hour by now.

[@lakecountynaturalist7617]

They know it. They just expect us to go back to the way we were. Those days are over. I don't care if they fire me or not, I will not be abused. I will continue to seek higher paying better benefit jobs till I get a living wage.

[@alexvaraderey]

If my company needs 1,000 staff to run the site, produce the product, supervisors, admin, etc and the share price goes up, unless the share price going up increases demand for my product, which it won't, then i don't need more staff. It doesn't matter how much the shares are worth. I'll only employ as many people as i need to get the job done. The only people to benefit from an increasing share price are owners and investors.

[@747Antman]

Presumably the owner would have stock too. If sold, the owner could invest in automation and in turn reduce the size of the work force. Hedge funds in US now trade in water futures in California. This is likely to push increased costs to consumers.

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[@JeffreyGillespie]

"Dad telling a spooky story about a man with only one house" Good Lord 😂😂😂😂😂

[@NoContent1991]

Coming from a super rich television host with more than one house

[@wendygreidanus8391]

I'm grateful to Stephen Colbert for helping me see the funny side of the craziness in the news of the day. Laughing is a damned sight better than pulling my hair out, screaming at my television, or spontaneously combusting. So, yeah, I'm grateful.

[@snowassassin2177]

Gasp! Billionaires are going to be treated like normal people! THE AUDACITY OF IT!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@kathcasey2090]

But they are not. Joe Manchin saw to that and Sinema, they just gutted the bill for billionaires! True story.

[@gamepapa1211]

Jeeves! Bring me my cocaine! No, the sad ones, not the happy ones!

[@snowassassin2177]

@@kathcasey2090 I know but they got scared. Also it's going to be brought up again and again until they crack

[@espenha]

With this bill they would specifically *not* be treated like normal people, though. That's why they call it the "billionaire income tax" and not the "unrealized gains income tax".

[@victoriancu7358]

There's nothing normal about being a billionaire. They should not be treated equal.

[@Grimlock1979]

Since when does billionaires buying and selling stocks "build jobs"? Mitt is insane.

[@brokenrecord3523]

Mitt is rich and so are the constituents that matter to him. You have to quit looking at the reasons they give and start looking at the motivations. It's like "I don't want to get vaccinated because ________." That blank is almost never the truth unless they say "I want democrats to fail. I don't like being told what to do. I have no idea, just doing what Fox tells me..."

[@dr.douglaspeterson2598]

That's right... stock market value is just e-paper. It doesn't make, distribute, or sell anything. What's wrong with them investing 25% of their capital gains in government or human service? If they don't want to give money to the government, give it to a charity.... AND TAKE A TAX DEDUCTION!

[@zerosumgame5700]

Early tech companies and their explosive growth built jobs, but now that industry is in the trimming stage, where they are trying to figure out how to do more with less people. We need a new innovation that requires manpower to achieve, that starts at ground level and only grows as more is put into it. *Then* billionaire investment would make a massive difference *again.* The way they are doing things right now is kinda pathetic and lacking in overall value. All the money always bubbles up. If they throw it lower, it will still come back to them, in time. We just need smarter billionaires that understand they can build higher on a stable foundation, instead of short-profit minded cowards who aren't willing to make fair bets on the future of the world. What the hell's the point of having world changing power if one only spends their life accumulating more and using it to do so? Power without purpose is just a dick-swinging competition, except all these people are competing for the best pseudo-penis while whipping out their wallet dildos. Unfortunately, it seems most of them don't concern themselves with having any balls behind it, or to stop being metaphorical, they won't bet on things they don't control, anymore.

[@adde9506]

What he's saying is that rich people will find ways to secure their money that isn't part of circulation at all. They'll buy expensive art and put it in their basement. When a company's stocks are up, they are more likely to hire employees and give raises. Remember, Mitt is a real rich guy who's in office on his own money; he's no protecting anyone. When he says, don't do it this way because this is what rich people will do in response, we should listen to him. Don't tax the billionaires on pre-sale stocks, find some other way. Like CLOSING tax loopholes.

[@--enyo--]

That’s what I was wondering. Whereas a ranch or painting would definitely have jobs involved.

[@Del-Lebo]

The labor shortage is based on low pay, no benefits,cost cutting and no work life balance. it is a shame that all of these businesses still won't value the staff that run their businesses. Shaking my head in disbelief for decades now! I would like to see top brass do the daily Work that the service industry have to do with no support or valid training. They would not last an 8 hour shift.

[@1959aak]

And there being 725,000 people dead to Covid-19 and millions suffering long-term effects doesn't help.

[@YamiOni]

I see it in the technology sector. I can only begin to imagine how shitty it is for people in the service industry...

[@YamiOni]

@@Sevenine88 It's all in how you define "labor shortage". "We _want_ to hire more people, but we can't find anyone with 30 years industry experience willing to work for minimum wage! People are so lazy!"

[@sarahoshea9603]

The best thing that happened was the "labor shortage". These rich ppl can't live without poor folks turning the cogs every day and I've been trying to explain to everyone that if u put ur hands in ur pockets and refuse to do fuckall until we get treated better there will be changes. Ppl laces that treat workers better are saying they don't have ANY problems staffing right now.

[@tantra9844]

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[@Wednesdaywoe1975]

Rude shoppers are, maybe, 25%responsible. Having been in customer service for 30 years, you can't escape people who believe you are their servant, BUT, it's the employers set the tone, and either make it tolerable for the employee, or not.

[@ToniGlick]

As a call center rep I often encounter irritated people but have found that empathising with them helps calm them down the majority of the time.

[@NewMessage]

"But if we go and start making the rich pay their share, and making society a fairer place for everyone... will that even be America anymore? I mean, that is not the America I grew up in!" -The GOP's basic argument, paraphrased.

[@colorbugoriginals4457]

Well put👍

[@maximussarcasticus1312]

Politicians: If we tax the rich how will they have any left over to line our pockets?

[@TheJiggs666]

If the GOP could legalize slavery they would.

[@Bookwright]

Can't they just tax the ritch exactly as much as they did when they grew up? It would be plenty. 😄

[@gracemunich1476]

@@TheJiggs666 sadly….

[@cliveklg7739]

So even the billionaires are saying we need to be taxed more... and STILL the GOP says no we won't tax you. #facepalm

[@blainemartin1397]

Hey billionaires….. How much do you really need? The greed in this world is incredible! Not looking for the rich to bail us out but I do think they should have to pay their fair share!

[@kellycook3914]

They need enough $$ to colonize another planet to move to when they kill this one. The poor won't be able to afford "the cost of living!"

[@spectrevector1115]

The problem with Socialism is you eventually run out of other people's money.

[@pforgottonsoul]

@@spectrevector1115 i mean this isn't socialism, this expecting everyone to pay their taxes like they're supposed to.

[@michaelmcginley4887]

Remember it will be the greed of the rich that will kill humanity NOT the poverty of the poor. But the rich will be living on Mars fcuking their sister daughter wives.

[@mr.wonderful4737]

I keep saying this over and over, having money is not evil. Spending it is a whole different story. Elon Musk being forced to sell shares will cause him to lose voting power and lose control of his company. Either way I live in Canada I have no problem them moving up here to the North

[@shermanculbertson6244]

Stephen always knocks it out of the park.

[@wildshepherd5918]

It’s not a labor shortage. It’s a living wage shortage. This is a general strike against working for less than our parents did. Keeping w inflation since the 60’s, the minimum wage would be 24! Generally sucks, so people generally aren’t working.

[@marylandgirl9246]

Yeah, we're watching that business model implode in real time. Pay your workers more and give them a respectful work environment, or go under.

[@lakecountynaturalist7617]

💪You want good service workers? You will pay for us. My time is money too!

[@uthmanbaksh3530]

Retail employees get cussed out and even assaulted for minimum wage And they wonder why no one wants to work retail anymore!

[@Opus313]

Billionaires are greedy... that's how they became billionaires...

[@twstf8905]

Deep.

[@kristypenner2753]

Maybe they inherited it?

[@RJM56]

@@kristypenner2753 no one person works hard enough to earn a billion, no matter how many generations back. It's always accumulated through the efforts of multitudes of others.

[@danielgehring7437]

Most 'new money' billionaires just got lucky. You think that Bezos was plotting space programs back when he was selling online books? No, he just had the infrastructure already in place when the online shopping boom happened. Gates got his start selling computers to his friends out of his garage and it was only chance that he was there for the home computer demand. Zuckerberg would have never gone anywhere if MySpace hadn't all of a sudden started shedding millions of users. Who makes money and who doesn't is always dictated by the progression of technology, and nobody can predict what will be invented or improved tomorrow.

[@kristypenner2753]

@@danielgehring7437 you could probably change that to all billionaires got lucky, full stop.

[@rafaelbarreto2658]

Let the guy dance people… so many people are afraid to be judge by others and they just watch… it’s not easy to dance in front of people… some compassion please

[@cathieludemann5879]

People have various ways of expressing joy. (Not DeJoy!) In this day and age, we should should celebrate whatever joy we have in whatever fashion we want.

[@shortsatire5669]

Compassion is the right response.

[@annebruecks7381]

He was cute dancing like a dad lol

[@gamepapa1211]

Mitt Romney quickly went back to that Trickle Down nonsense that has been proven time and again to be ineffective. How the mighty have fallen.

[@arcturionblade1077]

He was never mighty. He's always been a Reagan drone.

[@subvind]

look up "inheritance" vs "composition" // trickle down: just how do you think humans reproduce? ... lol, "How the mighty have fallen."

[@ohnoohnonono3458]

@Judith Gibson if it only was that, they also syphon the taxes.

[@DgurlSunshine]

@@subvind look up BRIBES

[@subvind]

@@DgurlSunshine look up capitalism and how JWT claims work.

[@stephenhatt742]

Thank God for people like Stephan to make us laugh :) Zoe , Canada

[@tiny99990]

Just wanna say, let that man running for governor in Virginia dance, yeah it's awful dancing, be you can see he is having fun and not forcing it, which I love. I really don't care if you can't dance well, if you're having fun do it and I will enjoy watching it if you are on stage... Professional dancers are surely amazing the way they move their bodies and especially how they move them to the rhythm... but I think for me, watching them LOVE what they do is what is truly amazing, and yeah the guy running for Governor obviously doesn't LOVE dancing, but he *enjoys* the dancing he was doing in these clips and thats what matters as far as I am concerned

[@alex35agm]

For people who harass store workers,there should be a way to charge a Karen fee,for their nasty attitude toward people.Or management should tell them to leave and never come back,and call the police as threatening people is a crime.

[@chadoftoons]

A fee then paid to the store not given to the employees who would have to work such degrading jobs. Dont think that would be good or smart sir... not even as a joke.

[@justrosy5]

Agreed! It's one thing to ask for a supervisor if something's *really* wrong and a worker is clearly just being a little shit, but it's quite another to go bonkers for no legit reason at all!

[@chrisofstars]

All of that is being done but none of it solves the mental health toll it takes

[@lenyo38]

Store can do whatever they want as long as it is legal. It is legal to charge extra if someone is ugly, it won't win you many customers but it is legal. Check youtube channel gas station encounters, sometimes when he catches a thief he makes them pay 3x.

[@gagsdoublej4254]

Excuse me Sir/Madam Are you saved? If you died tonight are you going to heaven? Jesus loves you

[@SpaceForceCommander]

Somehow, I just don’t see politicians biting the rich hand of the billionaires that feed them with very generous campaign contributions.

[@MultiArtisme]

Agreed! 😭

[@gamepapa1211]

I only know of one politician who has the balls to do that, and they've been blocking Bernie from power ever since.

[@bigbrotherlop87]

And yet, the democrats are trying to. That's what this law is trying to do. Those who oppose it are clearly showing where their interests are. But you can also see all of the politicians who aren't making their decisions based on receiving contributions from billionaires.

[@riseofazrael]

Not when bribery is legal in the US....oops, I actually think you guys call it "lobbying" over there right? Good luck trying change that. Too many people have been benefitting from that system for them to allow it to be changed at this point. Corporations literally get to draft policy that benefits THEM, writing in loopholes that they can later exploit and paying politicians off to get the legislation passed. How do you undo this?

[@JohnFreedman0]

They physically can't. There are these things called free trade agreements.

[@CJusticeHappen21]

It's not about "eating the rich." It's about giving the resources to the people who will bring the highest benefit with them. There was a time when privatization maximized wealth for the whole of the country, but that's been taken too far. The people aren't stealing from the rich, they're taking back the excess to get themselves a chance at living.

[@Ectava]

Or we could just eat the rich and give the companies to the workers. Basically making existing companies into co-ops.

[@Gildedmuse]

It's less "Eating the rich" and "Eating with the rich" Hell, at this point it's not even that. It's just like, "Getting to eat."

[@WublicIndecency]

Why don't we actually eat the rich? I bet they taste like caviar and diamonds lmao!

[@seahero4456]

The contraction of the economy, Stock Markets, Online superstores, ETC has decimated any chance for the average person to keep pace, AND the extra efforts to support Billionaire's will only add extra FOSSIL FUEL waste into the ozone, thus the 2.7c increase in heating(rather then the 1.5c goal) by 2300, predicted this week, will almost certainly happen. Merry Christmas Capitalist Pigs.

[@renenowicki]

Decades ago economists were preparing for the 20 hour work week brought on by automation. All that went to the top. The little guy is working several jobs to scrap by. WTF SMH

[@Aco4k]

"Signature Scent is a Burger Fart" -AMAZING.🤣🤣😂😂

[@JPBrooksLive]

These billionaires need to realize: taxing them is an extremely generous compromise compared to the suffering they've caused. We have worse inequality than during the French revolution... their consequences could be much different.

[@brittanyeastep4866]

Behead the rich!

[@kantraxoikol6914]

i can't even begin to explain how stupid that whole statement is. money doesn't make you cause suffering. what causes suffering is people like you assuming they don't deserve the money for 80 hour work weeks and no life except work. billionaires aren't all like tRump, it's not inherited money doing evil either.

[@JPBrooksLive]

@@kantraxoikol6914 you just tried to explain it and failed miserably. Do the math on your 80hr work week and see if it gets a normal person to a million, much less 1000X that. You can't reach a billion without exploitation- these people don't create wealth, their workers and the demand for their products do (and they've done a damn good job fixing the market for themselves by buying out competition)

[@MissGamerVideo]

@@kantraxoikol6914 even with 80 hour work weeks, the hourly pay rate would be hundreds of thousands of dollars. Jeff bezoz makes 8.56 MILLION an HOUR. whilst the minimum wage is $7 an hour, and has been unchanged for decades. Even the kindest , smartest person alive doesn't need billions of dollars. A moral person wouldn't even reach $1 billion because they'd pay all of their workers a liveable wage and give a good percentage of their paycheck to charities.

[@shaunmattice6413]

Yet it's most of these billionaires why there's a wide gap between the one percent and the middle class...

[@SharienGaming]

the US has a middle class? are you sure about that?

[@johndoa4839]

If a corporation pays less tax than its own workers then you know the system is broken

[@alissacheck4194]

This week has brought some of the rudest customers. I've been called every name under the sun, had trash thrown at me, and all I can do is refuse future service to them. My pay is decent, but that's that's keeping me holding on.

[@lakecountynaturalist7617]

Those customers are 3 year olds having a temper tantrum. Treat them as such.

[@MyOtherCarIsA15MinuteCity]

I used to work at Walmart. Once for two years, then once again in another department for over one year, and I left both times because the higher ups CONSTANTLY IGNORED any real feedback, DESPITE having to periodically complete company-mandated surveys. I’m not the only one who thinks ignoring feedback is another major factor in the current living wage shortage.

[@lakecountynaturalist7617]

Sure it is. We're tired of risking our lives literally for slave wages. Enough is enough.

[@captainspaulding5963]

@@lakecountynaturalist7617 "literally for slave wages" are you getting paid at all? Then you are most definitely not making slave wages. People really need to get a dictionary before posting things.

[@sherischutzen49]

Miss Miss Evies laughter, but so glad to watch Stephen Colbert back with his audience.

[@johnassal5838]

Let's hope that lasts. The same idiots who never understood public health measures were never going to end in a few weeks say vaccines "make" new variants. Fact is it's those fools and to a degree the greed of Big Pharma slowing production. Delta existed in India months before vaccines but they inexplicably ended masking and distancing just as they started vaccinations and it spread accordingly. If not for Delta something even worse might've evolved with any strain minutely better at infecting the vaccinated spreading freely and mutating in the vast numbers of unvaxxed. To a lesser extent we're still doing that here with our 70 million unmasked vaccine refusers. Another 6 billion globally can't afford the asking price and an unfortunate mutation occuring as any one of them incubates covid could still take us all right back to square one.

[@lostbutfreesoul]

Laughed when Trump complained and said he would leave the nation over it. As if he has ever come close to earning $100 a million for three years, or ever had a Billion!

[@nickwallette6201]

Well that's a presidential candidate if I've ever heard one! "This goes my way, or I'm leaving." Bye!

[@newstroll982]

He can leave but the only country that will take him is north Korea. Remember the love letters he had from Kim...

[@ellenfisher5750]

Buh-bye!

[@Brett_S_420]

He would have to get Putin's signature if he tried to liquidate his assets.

[@kimjongfun5427]

According to a new OMB-CEA report, American billionaires pay an average federal individual income tax rate of just 8.2%. Wow!

[@gamepapa1211]

"Trickle Down Economics works, y'all!" - Some Clowns

[@kenbrown2808]

my worst year, my combined income and social security tax was 300% of my net income. I think billionaires can dig just a little bit deeper.

[@bronztrooper9440]

@@kenbrown2808 300%? That's a typo, right? ..... right?

[@Gildedmuse]

Because they took away your ability to claim yourself as a dependent, I actually paid the government $200 in taxes last year. You guys, I spent part of the year homeless and worked a near minimum wage hourly job (admittedly, when I did get the job I worked 30 to 45 hours a week despite being part time, but that was only because I was so desperate for money to pay off all my bills and the people who had let me crash at their places and buy food that I absolutely had to). How did they change the tax code so someone who is barely scraping by had to pay half her monthly rent in taxes but billionaires get away with paying so little?

[@QuakerPop]

not true. that's only if you include unsold stocks that appreciate as "income." I don't consider increases in my 401K as income - do you?

[@andymeyer6165]

I love how Stephen pulls out his IPhone and says "now I'm gonna 'video tape' YOU!" It almost didn't strike me as weird, as I am from the 'video tape' age as well!! ;-)

[@fattmusiek5452]

so good. such a good IMPROVISER!

[@sarinahart]

I left a service job after 10 years because of customer’s behavior during the pandemic. I had a great wage, full benefits and a lot of community clout. The abuse was too much. I don’t think I can ever go back to customer service. I have never experienced true mental trauma before the pandemic. I don’t look at people the same way any longer. I experience general disgust at most Americans at this point, and can barely go out socially any more. From what I have heard, people have only gotten more entitled and rude, and our whole town is practically run by teenagers, because so many people have quit. The quality of service in our town has tanked.

[@lakecountynaturalist7617]

PTSD in essential workers is REAL. I quit my job for the same reason and could not bring myself to work anywhere for three months because I just couldn't do it. I finally had to go back to work because my savings ran out. I guarantee you I am not the same person I was before the pandemic. Any customer is rude to me I will throw his stuff at him and will have nothing more to do with him.

[@cmajor886]

I feel the same way. I’ve grown to have a certain dislike for some of the American Population from working in retail. People are really rude and nasty! It’s a shame that Management doesn’t back their employees either. So many entitled pierces of shit out there. I honestly think the Pandemic has fried people’s brains and now they don’t know how to act with common courtesy or decency.

[@danielgehring7437]

I always love the 'warning' the GOP gives about if we raise taxes on the rich: "If we tax them they'll move out of the country!" Uh, good? Whatever would we do without the people syphoning our paychecks and not paying their own taxes!?

[@christinebenson518]

They never move anyway.

[@tenkenroo]

Also where would they move? Pretty much every country taxes their wealthy more

[@BeefZupreme]

They are going to go after the middle class and the poor what don’t you understand. They are already demolishing the middle class with inflation

[@vikitheviki]

I love how they are ignorant of the fact that the high taxes on the rich, over 90 percent, post war and how it grew the economy as never seen before and probably never will again if they don't get taxed.

[@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494]

These idiots really do believe in that "trickle down" BS, huh?

[@13katecoombs]

Apparently, no one explained to Romney about the stock market-it doesn't affect the actual economy that much. Money just flows from one rich person's pocket to another and back without accomplishing anything.

[@kenbrown2808]

the stock market is just a casino for the rich. while the poor pay 50% tax on anything they win and don't get to write off their losses.

[@13katecoombs]

@@kenbrown2808 Yes! Well said.

[@danielgehring7437]

Oh, it accomplishes something, it helps those rich people not pay taxes!

[@13katecoombs]

@@danielgehring7437 Good point! (Can't imagine who paid for the tax system to be set up that way.)

[@hollybardoe4075]

A wise person once said, "The Stock Market is merely a reflection of rich people's feelings".

[@Nevets1073]

You gotta cut Mitt Romney some slack! In college his dad only gave him and his wife $1,000,000 in stocks to live off of. Why, they couldn't afford servants! They had to walk to classes together! That had to be terrifying to him.

[@msscoutshadow]

That's hilarious 🤣🤣😂👍

[@tdsims1963]

😆😆😆😆

[@kvr22_]

The AUDACITY. His father is a cruel, cruel man.

[@saranghae2808]

😂😂😂

[@wngimageanddesign9546]

That's no way for a rich white boy to live! Sacrilegious.

[@lisagulick4144]

They extract the musk from land animals to add to perfume. Coal tar is also a perfume ingredient. If you can get over those, ambergris should be no problem. If you want pure perfume, buy essential oils and dilute them in fractionated coconut oil.

[@ericswild]

I just love Stephen Colbert

[@o0Avalon0o]

The hilarious part is nearly all Americans support taxing billionaires more. Even republicans, but not their ridiculous politicians. 🤣🤣

[@Megalomaniakaal]

Haven't there been multiple billionaires in the US even said themselves to tax them more? I seem to have some vague memory of it but don't recall who.

[@pcolgan89]

Fucking really sad

[@toadjiang7626]

Because America is not by any means an actual democracy. A Princeton University study back in 2014 has concluded that "the preferences of the average American (the bottom 90% of Americans) appeared to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy."

[@Taricus]

@@Megalomaniakaal Yeah, but I don't remember which ones right off-hand. I think Bill Gates was one of them, but not sure.

[@enegmatixerebro]

Most Americans forget the celebrities they love hardly pay their fair share either. They put on a mask. It's the job.

[@robertarrowood3651]

Why are people worried if they leave? New companies will rise up an take there place. Let's hope better ones and ones that respect employees.

[@jaimicottrill2831]

Yes, true. Plus the wealthy hoard their money and hide it in offshore accounts already. What’s the difference if they flee?

[@shelbypowell9919]

Seize the factories and equipment as a government asset, then mortgage it back to the employees as a co-op. No one loses a job, and we impose strict tariffs on companies that move overseas to evade taxes

[@brad4058]

​@@shelbypowell9919 Thing is, they provide jobs and when the big companies go to China, they only make China's economy more wealthier than ours. Once they become wealthy and the center of power they can then make their money the standard for trading currencies and it knocks down the power of the dollar severely. When that happens, the dollar loses purchasing power and when that happens it raises the cost of items. You'll need more money to buy simple stuff like toilet paper. I'm all for taxing the rich, but we need to find a balance where we dont scare off the ones who provide work to people. When no one is working, there are no tax revenue generated and the government can't run civil services like road repairs and shit. You'll start to see your city deteriorate and store shelves remaining empty for long periods of time. People really need to put some thought into these kind of things before they start saying stupid shit like "who cares if their businesses leave". I mean anyone can start a business, but it takes years for one to become big enough to employ hundreds of thousands of workers like Google and Amazon. There's a chain reaction to these things, and one disruption can literally fuck the economy up for a long period of time. Just look at what we gotta deal with when there's a lack of transportation labor for truckers or when microprocessors were in a shortage due to COVID-19. I mean just take a look at the recent Winchester Rifle Company move from Springfield Illinois to the east coast. The mayor of Springfield is complaining how much this is hurting his city because of all the jobs they took with them. All of this talk is the equivalent of sticking your arm in a wood chipper.

[@widdershins5383]

@@brad4058 you say that like American businesses haven’t been moving production facilities to China for the last twenty years already. Then blaming China for their production pollution while they provide western commodities. So your argument falls flat when the people your praising are already doing what your scared of them doing if we make them pay proper taxes.

[@brad4058]

@@widdershins5383 Yes, American businesses have been moving to China for production and China has been taking a lot of those jobs away from Americans. Taxing the rich is just giving them more incentive to take their wealth and move out cuz believe it or not, not all rich people have a charity fund like the Clinton Foundation to dodge their taxes completely. Even if the percentage is lower than what middle-wage and low-wage earners have to pay, just a percentage of what they make is already more than enough to cover a lot what the middle-wage and low wage earners can pay in taxes combined. I don't know if you know this, but when you're dealing with percentages and integers of numbers, the numbers scale when applied to a percentage. Amazing knowledge, I know, but it seems like people don't seem to get this part when they talk about taxing the shit out of high wage earners. No one is going to want to work harder just so that they can see 70% of their income go to the government which the government isn't guaranteed on re-investing those taxes to the best interests of middle-wage and low-wage earners anyways. They could use that tax money to fund more wars they want to start or regimes they want to change. So no, taxing the rich to death isn't a smart thing to do. We need them to stay here and pay their taxes because with all the rich people we have in the US combined, they cover most of the taxes the government is demanding. And I really hope I drive this through to your head, so I will say it again. The government is not guaranteed on re-investing all those taxes back to the public's best interests.

[@TheWtfanime]

When there’s a bill that help actually help the working people of America’s everyday life the gop doesn’t give a shit, but when there’s a republican president who wants cut taxes for cooperations and steam roll a Supreme Court justice member? Oh suddenly they do their jobs.

[@gamepapa1211]

The GQP does not stand for anything, but they are against everything. This is pretty much their standard M.O.

[@catcherintherye6479]

+ GOP spend like drunken Comunists without any regard to debt.

[@SevenHunnid]

I do reaction videos while high asf on my KZbin channel 🙏

[@BeefZupreme]

@@catcherintherye6479 HAHAHAH TELL ME HOW BIDEN WANTS TO SPEND 3.5 TRILLION AND CONVINCE THE MORONS IT REALLY EQUALS ZERO………… I’ll wait.

[@BeefZupreme]

BOTH PARTIES COULDNT CARE LESsABOUT THE PEASANTS OF AMERICA DONT BE FOOLED

[@nunessilva2162]

This show gets better and better. Thanks for sharing. Go Stephen!! Go The Late Show!!

[@jprsfragoso]

Always nice to see Romney confessing to tax evasion on live TV.

[@outlawbillionairez9780]

When I was born, millionaires and Corporations were taxed at over 90% ! What that did was make them reinvest that money. The biggest boost in the history of American economy.

[@meh8982]

Exactly. At that time, tax laws were written to promote the good of the entire population. Now they are written for the benefit of the ultra rich by bought-and-paid-for politicians who take advantage of the laws themselves.

[@outlawbillionairez9780]

@@meh8982 the highest net worth per person of any organized group of individuals in the Untidy States of Embarrassment is... The House The Senate The SCOTUS The Executive

[@Obrimus]

But ... but ... that is SOCIALISM. Aren't you glad that things are much less fair now? Because freedom? :P

[@finnoffer8539]

I would visit Gary’s Fine Art Emporium & Dude Ranch

[@ericaglas3199]

Same same! Those dead guys can draw! xD

[@zesty9815]

Mona Lisa looks good in that hat.

[@phoenixzappa7366]

Unless there is a mile walk from the carpark. Then Americans would have to turn around and bring their fanny packs home. Except for the ones on mobility scooters. Which is about 49 percent of the total population.

[@kathypiazza7228]

If I could afford the airfare & gasoline for the rental car.

[@ferox965]

Lasso a Picasso...Jesus Christ I nearly spat out my coffee at that one.

[@peppeddu]

Love how Elon Musk sounds so innocent when he explains how he pays taxes on the little amount he draws for his salary without mentioning his companies pay for virtually everything else he uses.

[@JNArnold]

Not to mention he was just gloating at Bezos about overtaking him as the worlds richest person.

[@mikeabernathy8787]

Well, it is his company is it not?

[@tma2001]

you mean the guy who doesn't own a superyacht, or gives a f*ck about money for its own sake (he sold off most his possesions), pays his taxes (he noted wryly how the media forgot to mention about his not paying anything in 2010 was because he _overpayed_ the previous year), doesn't offshore his companys earnings in Luxemburg, slept on the factory floor while just avoiding bankruptcy and losing everything including the livelihoods of thousands. Oh and saved the US taxpayer billions with SpaceX with resuabilty vs 'old-space' and has single-handedly dragged the rest of the auto industry into playing catch-up on EVs. (and yes I'm familiar with his flaws but his lifestyle ain't one of them). Wheras the other guy thinks you can sue your way to the moon ...

[@moonbeanification]

Peppe Ddu, exactly. That's the definition of "disingenuous".

[@Carewolf]

@@mikeabernathy8787 It isn't. It is the shareholders, of which he is only one.

[@vagabondwiz]

Are we just going to ignore the comedy gold: "I love words. They're my favourite part of reading, after sitting." 😂

[@EthanKristopherHartley]

As one of the immunocompromised people affected by the extra vaccinations my Rheumatologist told me that we get the standard double injection vaccination, then a third primary vaccination after 6 months and finally a booster 6 months after that. It's because we only get around half of the protection that someone with a fully active immune system has. But we have the advantage of being much less likely to experience any side effects, so there's always a silver lining! 😁

[@seattleite6631]

Interesting

[@cinne2135]

Thanks for the full explanation! Stay safe & healthy, friend.

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[@dkayflowers79]

So in other words he will next recommend that you walk around in bubble wrap or just stay under your bed where it is *nice & safe for all eternity* ~Fin 😏

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[@dokskwyr4353]

"Burger farts". Yep, that sums up Trumpty-Dumbpty pretty well.

[@arcturionblade1077]

Berder farts.

[@chickensdone1]

I thought he said “murder farts” at first… which still sounds applicable.

[@juloedtb1420]

Maybe those people in the service industry should get a fair wage so they're more motivated to serve. It might also help if customers appreciate them a bit more and say thank you and mean it. More often than not customers take their effort to please them for granted. When was the last time you thanked your mailman, waiter, busdriver, etc?

[@ifgezroxy]

I thank my busdrivers, store clerks and everyone else every time I see them.

[@marvinmartion1178]

I'm a carpenter, self employed and republicans are always the first to find an excuse to not pay you, and treat you like crap! Always republicans!

[@AlisonCasilli]

@@ifgezroxy Me too, I make sure to smile, maybe do something to get them to smile for a second, and let them know that I appreciate what they go through to help me out. That is what they are doing, after all...helping me out.

[@AuskaDezjArdamaath]

Having worked service jobs all my life, I make sure to thank my cashier, waiter, sales assistant, mailman and any other person who’s job it is to provide a service because lord knows, their boss certainly won’t thank them and neither will most people. I also make sure to look them in the eyes and give them a smile because there’s nothing worse than being treated like you’re just an automaton without feelings. And for heaven’s sake, get off your dang cell phone when you reach the cash register! That’s just rude!

[@ifgezroxy]

@@AlisonCasilli exactly. Make it a warm, and humble "Thank you". It improves at least my mood, when you see the immediate effect of those simple words. :)

[@laundrysauce234]

Wish people would stop calling it a labor shortage and start calling it a wage shortage.

[@adde9506]

Actually, for once, it is a labor shortage. People are being paid to stay home and watch their kids because covid. It isn't just crappy jobs that are scarce on employees, it's all of them. When they stop paying people to stay home, THEN it will be a wage shortage. There is work and money if you want it... until everybody needs it.

[@luuketaylor]

The "these dead guys could draw" joke took me just north of 3 seconds to realize the double entendre and I'm absolutely loving it.

[@glenneric1]

Pretty sure it was just a single entendre.

[@stevesloan7132]

Pitty the rich. If this goes through they'll only be able to buy one Mazerati every day of the year! How terrible that will be for them! Come on, have a ❤, people!

[@gamerman782]

Reminds me of the South Park episode where the boys download songs illegally.

[@toadjiang7626]

Yeah, like Betsy DeVos has 10 private yachts, 12 private jets and 4 helicopters. I honestly don't know why anyone would need that many yachts and jets.

[@Pete...NoNotThatOne]

@@toadjiang7626 I’d say she leases them out for additional income. It’s what I’d do.

[@teelo12000]

Won't somebody PLEASE think of the poor struggling billionaire who gets mocked at functions for only taking one trip into space???

[@Lucius1958]

Maseratis are chicken feed. Their real fear is no longer being able to buy the US Government.

[@69Storm1]

Keep up the Awesome Work Everyone!!

[@Phase52012]

I worked in a department store at one time. I am NEVER rude to anyone who works in the service industry.

[@melindahall5062]

I worked at a grocery store…I hear ya.

[@Vonnegut5000]

Hey Stephen, here's a good idea. If you want a good guest spot, have any service industry person come on or maybe one a month, and you will get a good idea of what the issue is on the service industry. It might actually jump start something, and he could be the one to be known as the person who helped change how the service industry works.

[@curiousfoxwildcraft9904]

This!!!!

[@ritamariekelley4077]

If corporate CBS would let him. Bet they wouldn't!

[@theegigisupreme]

This monolog was especially hilarious! I had to listen to it twice!

[@graylinshowell7051]

Strange how, historically, the higher we tax the wealthy and corporations, the better the economy. I'm not afraid of billionaires leaving the states if we tax them fairly and close loopholes. They would have to choose between stable economy, stable government, and tax haven. Even if they liked living in solitude, it wouldn't be hard to convince Americans to tax foreign owned businesses higher...

[@MatthewSmith-wv5fi]

It's an idle threat more times than not. But, so is any plan to tax them. Its like fines for speeding. It's crippling to many and a nominal user fee to others. If I have a half million dollar car a $1000 speeding ticket is meaningless to me. But you know, after their done building rocket ships some of it may trickle down as a stingy tip.

[@denniswilson5645]

Mr. Colbert, you are funny. Clowns are funny. Please, please never stop. Much of the world loves you. Especially we Canadians. Keep me laughing at your scab of a nation driven insane. You are our Lenny Bruce. Love to you and your family.

[@enterthecarp7085]

Love You Steven C! Uplift me again and again THANKYOU 😂❤️

[@stephendavis4834]

Colbert's impression of an entitled shopper having an unhinged meltdown @7:58 is brilliant. Hilariously, tragically on point.

[@julesmasseffectmusic]

even better when you consider its probably been 25 years since he had to stand at a checkout. dudes got a good memory.

[@rosesmith6925]

I once remember an investor saying Always pay your taxes with pride, it means you've accomplished the American dream. After almost two years of unexpected illness and death people are realizing life is short and a sucky job just isn't worth it.

[@adde9506]

As a person with a sucky job... Exactly how are these people getting money when they aren't getting another job?

[@grey_jedi_knight_ali4859]

True. But thing is sucky jobs are needed for bills, rent, and food. Inquiring minds want to know, how to rid yourself of the sucky job but keep the money for basic necessities.

[@styleme3375]

@@adde9506 people are getting better jobs. Boomers are retiring, a bunch of people died. It opened up space for upward mobility.

[@clutchyfinger]

Romneyian translated into Enlglish- Wait but if we tax my donors, they'll just use up all their money and abuse those tax loopholes I set up for them instead of paying for my lifestyle I MEAN UHHHH

[@jessragan6714]

Romney got so mad he closed Kay-Bee Toys. Again.

[@enegmatixerebro]

If Elon Musk earned $36 Billion in one day I think he has enough to pay off some of his taxes.

[@Exspazament]

Or, like maybe all of our taxes? and he'd still be rich as all fuck if he did that.

[@kathcasey2090]

He could end world hunger!

[@Exspazament]

@@kathcasey2090 and still rich as all hell...!!!! :-/

[@gamepapa1211]

The fact that we have so many billionaires and 0 Batman is proof that there is no justice in this world.

[@subvind]

if i painted something and kept it in my house and the neighbors saw it through the window and valued it at 1T does that mean I owe you 30% in taxes of $??? sorry, i am a painter, all i that i know or ever care about is pigments, brushes, and canvases.

[@phoenix5054]

"Joe Manchin is against it so it's dead." America: where a single senator from a state like West Virginia is as powerful as a president.

[@johnsaylor1583]

More powerful in terms of concrete legislation at this point. If only the rest of America had elected a few more democratic senators.

[@Tuturial464]

Too bad he doesn’t have the will of the people. Only money

[@annebruecks7381]

Manchin and Sinema are bought and paid for. I wonder how much selling your soul goes for nowadays?

[@bobkoure]

To be fair, if we'd elected just one more senator... As it is, we're better off with Manchin than with someone republican from WV - as we'd then be dealing with McTurtle.

[@twill5626]

And then he stalls everything, and people get disenfranchised with the Democrats not getting anything done, so then they vote Republican, then they realize the Republicans are money grubbing lunatics, so they vote the Democrats back in, and the band plays on.

[@laurabealmear9293]

You are so damn funny!I watch your monologue in the morning with coffee, it truly makes me laugh and start my day right❤️

[@dalerbob]

You really got the laughs Colbert ! Thanks .

[@cherylsibson2529]

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[@Optimismus53]

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[@jessetorres8738]

I took a course at Texas Christian University that explained a key problem with the Stock Market. Basically, if you proportion America to just 100 people and placed them all in order from the richest to the poorest, only 7 of the bottom 50 have enough money to actively invest in the Stock Market. So when the Stock Market is good, only a handful out of the bottom half of the country benefit from it, but when it crashes, it also impacts them more because they don't have as much of a safety net especially compared to the top 10% of the country. Additionally, whenever the television media or politicians praise how well the Stock Market is doing, they ignore half of the picture of how it impacts our national economy.

[@danielgehring7437]

The stock market hasn't really been relevant to the economy in decades now; it's simply rich-person gambling at this point. We have proof of this time and again, like remember that time Twitter trolls skyrocketed collapsing GameStop stocks for the lulz?

[@JC-eu8rg]

@@danielgehring7437 for the lulz? for the $$$

[@slcpunk2740]

@@danielgehring7437 it's relevant only in that people's savings are usually tied up in it one way or another, either your 401K / pension fund is in the market or your bank is so deep into collateralized debt obligations that they're going to go bust when the housing bubble pops

[@kahaneck]

Thats very interesting, Jesse. Thanks for sharing.

[@troywalkertheprogressivean8433]

@@XCodes betting on an outcome is gambling.

[@MrVonweber]

The rudeness of customers is one I have observed and I do know of a waitress, who loves her job, but is at times, overwhelmed with the nastiness of diners....to the point of tears.

[@tairneanaich]

Sometimes I go and stand in the fridge in the kitchen and swear at the vegetables to keep from falling to pieces. The chefs are used to it.

[@lakecountynaturalist7617]

Don't let them get to you. Always stay in control of the situation and kill them with kindness. I, too, spent many nights in tears till I realized I can't go on this way and I don't give a damn whether they fire me or not. I will survive.

[@KM-rt5jj]

Love the reaction to the space jam 2 slam 🤣 Plus it helped me discover Jon Lampley and videos of him being goodlooking while playing great music

[@conmckfly]

Excellent, hilarious monologue, Stephen!! LMAO.

[@conniestevens3387]

You are always funny, but you outdid yourself tonight. Your monologue was fantastic!

[@tonystark341]

No one wants to work for the lowest legal pay, and get yelled at by crazy customers who spit at you and threaten you.

[@terrystevens3998]

Workers should get a constitutional right to tell customers to GTFO when they act up.. and the bosses need to support them in it.. it would solve the Karen issue

[@tonystark341]

@@terrystevens3998 Some of those customers from hell, can be very agressif and violent, because FREEDUMB !

[@ghill88]

They don't want to work for bosses that yell at them and spit on them while yelling. 😃

[@WanderingTaoist101]

Tax. The. Rich.

[@danielgehring7437]

Or eat them.

[@guynorth3277]

At least their share, and they should remember they could not have gotten 'rich' without all those hard workers.

[@Brett_S_420]

GENERAL LABOR STRIKE!! POWER TO THE WORKERS!! SOLIDARITY!! ✊🏼

[@guynorth3277]

"Maybe dance like someone is watching" - gosh I love this show!

[@insane_troll]

OK, I took my spare superyacht to my third house and I didn't find a space ship in the garage. I only have space ships at my second and fourth houses, so I'm fine!

[@adampkalb]

Nice try, insane troll. It went with saying that a spaceship in _any_ of your houses will cross that line of 1 billion dollar$ in assets.

[@MrBoliao98]

Honestly, Joe really bores me, but it's nice to be able to sleep since January. How much we have aged from Trump.

[@gamepapa1211]

If boring means I don't have to wake up every day fearing that the country would vanish in a plume of atomic cloud because somebody mean-tweeted the Jackass-O-Lantern the other night then hell, give me boring any day!

[@enegmatixerebro]

Trump wanted to nuke a hurricane. These are facts.

[@johnwattdotca]

When everything was shut down out there I got caught up watching American election videos here in You Tube. I felt fortunate to see such entertaining drama, and I never thought I'd see it again in my lifetime, after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American Afro-Americans protesting racism.

[@kenbrown2808]

when it comes to roofs, presidents, and the drive home from work, boring is a good thing, because excitement comes from trouble.

[@arcturionblade1077]

Sleepy isn't a word I'd use for Joe since he apparently curses like a sailor behind closed doors. Dementia Donny is definitely low energy though, except when he's trying to overthrow our duly elected government. Only his sheer incompetence saved us, sadly enough.

[@spaghettisultan5484]

I can confirm about the rude customers news. I had my first encounter with a Karen last week.

[@iamyou8416]

It’s amazing and criminal how much CEOs pay themselves!! They should definitely pay their fair share of taxes. Their taxes should hurt them as much as it hurts the average person!

[@majormetcalf1225]

Rude shoppers is why I just quit my cashier job last week.

[@mzmendy]

If the equivalents of those words were added to the dictionary after polio or Spanish flu, we'd have an easier time explaining wtf we're talking about now. Soooo yes, they should be added.

[@MrWallace484]

Yes tax the rich enough is enough

[@gracemunich1476]

definitely the top 1% at much higher tax rates

[@sarcasmo57]

Tax the rich, the poor are almost dead.

[@johnsonhunglo1993]

I fail to see the problem. Just tax their asses!!!! Who are they going to call?

[@lostinwonderart]

I worked in retail for 30 years, and I left last year. I’m never going back after dealing with abusive and entitled customers for 3 decades. I had customers do terrible things to me, including threatening to follow me home and kill me for not giving a cash refund for an item purchased elsewhere and I had to step between customers abusing people who worked for me, including having to tell men to pull up their pants and get out when they exposed themselves to an employee when I ran a Waldenbooks.

[@nedsantos1415]

Romney's mormon god must be very proud of the greedy rich person he has become.

[@coultergill7728]

There is no such thing as a Mormon god. We believe in the same God that every other Christian does. We don’t believe in the Trinity though

[@nedsantos1415]

@@coultergill7728 said, There is no such thing as a Mormon god. We believe in the same God that every other Christian does. We don’t believe in the Trinity though ///////////////////////// So, you assumed I believe in the Abrahamic religions, didn't you? It seems that Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists, and people of other religions are non-existent to you, doesn't it? It's also interesting that you evaded the "Romney" part. Does it hurt too much to examine the words and actions of one of your own?

[@lh3540]

the mormon church is a massive real estate investment powerhouse, of course they don't want taxes

[@Despina838]

I came here just for Simba's Boiling Asphalt Stroll... That was hilarious

[@Red-rl1xx]

Same here!👍🤣

[@DhaniNMarie]

Stephen: mentions Domino's Domino's: places a 30 second youtube ad right after that bit

[@gl15col]

If you've ever worked with (gag) "the public" you know that it's a stressful, miserable job that barely pays enough to cover child care and leaves nothing for medical care. The cashier does not set prices, or policy, or in fact do anything but try to make you satisfied. But usually acts as a sponge for your frustrations from home, as they are an easy target that can't fight back...

[@lakecountynaturalist7617]

Sure a cashier can fight back. Stay firm and cold. Do not let them know that they got to you. Pass them along to your manager and take the next customer. Their behavior will stop real fast.

[@davidle8885]

Two words, Thank You

[@dappppppppt]

I know how much you love Aotearoa NZ Stephen, you should check out our tax system. It works. Shocked face: The more you make the more tax you pay. It's plain common sense.