Tulsi Gabbard: Redirect Profits from
Corporations Allowed to Remain Open
to Small Businesses Forced to Close
Breitbart Politics,
by
John Binder
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
12/18/2020 9:59:37 PM
A plan by Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) would redirect excess profits from multinational corporations allowed to remain open during the Chinese coronavirus crisis to small businesses that have been forced to close due to economic shutdowns.Gabbard released legislation on Friday, known as the Pandemic Crisis Excess Profits Tax, to ensure that corporations such as Amazon, Facebook, Walmart, and Google are not profiting off economic shutdowns that have helped clear the market of their competition. “Big tech corporations and big-box retailers are among those who have made excessive profits during the COVID-19 pandemic, while mom and pop shops
How about firing the stupid governors that kept their states closed down for so long...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
navybrat 12/18/2020 10:29:05 PM (No. 636018)
How about allowing small businesses to remain open and make decisions for themselves. Taking profit from one segment and redistributing is still communism. The government needs to stop interfering with small business owners and citizens as well as the voting booths.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jimboscott 12/18/2020 10:29:11 PM (No. 636019)
For this particular situation... I can see Gabbard's point. Online shopping is mopping up all the cash that would otherwise be used in local brick and mortar stores.
Those who want Governors to pay for their overreach will likely be pleased too as once the big money starts feeling pain the pressure will be on for Governors to relax their draconian grip on small businesses.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
SALady 12/18/2020 10:32:13 PM (No. 636020)
You stupid lie-beral, that is not the fault of the big box stores. If they hadn't operated during this over-reaction, we wouldn't have eaten!!!! They don't deserve to be punished for doing exactly what you forced them to do -- which is being the only stores open!!!
The pain the small shops are feeling are wholly on the shoulders of the idiot lie-beral dictator-wanna-be governors and mayors and judges (like you) who shut them down and wouldn't let them work!!!!
Communism 101: Massive government over-reach, and redistribution of wealth!!!!!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
GustoGrabber 12/18/2020 10:34:33 PM (No. 636021)
Challenging the stacked deck that has been dealt in 2020, those that donate to the swamp made out very well. Recognizing that is surprisingly not what Senators, much less Democratic Senators do.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
stablemoney 12/18/2020 10:37:08 PM (No. 636022)
Redirect salaries from government workers who are getting paid to those that are not getting paid.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
NYbob 12/18/2020 10:51:57 PM (No. 636033)
Any plan that keeps cuomo from getting the raise he gave himself, making him the highest paid governor in the country would get my wholehearted support.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Venturer 12/18/2020 11:06:40 PM (No. 636035)
I see her point, but it just aint right.
People who are frightened and afraid to got o stores should stay home and the rest of us should be free to do whar we want. Mask or no mask.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 12/18/2020 11:11:07 PM (No. 636038)
First, reclaim the many millions, perhaps billions, from companies and other entities which applied for and got PPE and other pandemic relief monies. There's a law firm up here in NH, headed up by (among others) the husband of Dem Senator Shaheen, which got a couple of million, an already multi-million dollar firm.
Then, take those monies and make sure that small businesses, including restaurants (not including venues such as The French Laundry).
A story from Maine the other day was a fake corporation was set up and then application was made for pandemic relief, and (i think) 2 million dollars were disbursed to this fake company. Haste does make waste.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 12/18/2020 11:15:45 PM (No. 636042)
Redirect payroll checks from teachers elected officials and government employees who suffer zero economic losses to those whom the government shuts down that do suffer economic losses.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
NeverForget 12/18/2020 11:16:16 PM (No. 636043)
Tulsi has correctly diagnosed the problem: Government intervention into the economy.
And she now seeks to apply her solution: More government intervention into the economy.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 12/18/2020 11:22:06 PM (No. 636051)
Inane comment indicative of a person with no idea how corporations work. First off, "Holy Basil", define "profit." then decide how often those "big evil corporations" pay up, and how they accomplish that? Gee, there's another way to redistribute their wealth, and it's called TAXES, which the Feds absorb like water to a sponge.
Here's an even simpler approach... allow EVERYONE to OPEN when they feel like it. Stop the Panic!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 12/19/2020 12:07:24 AM (No. 636071)
Oh-oh...No, no, no Tulsi....your solution stinks. JMO. Taxing 'excess' profits?! Gee....where have I heard that before?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
jollytroll 12/19/2020 12:12:16 AM (No. 636072)
No, h*ll no! How about everyone plays by the same rules and let the profits fall where they may. Yikes, like we need *more* gov't intervention....
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
4Justice 12/19/2020 12:12:20 AM (No. 636073)
I think Tulsi's heart is in the right place but she has been a DemonRat too long. I think we should find a way to keep those Big Tech monsters in check, however. They have been massively profiting off the COVID crisis and had greatly benefitted from DemonRat policies while small businesses have been pushed around and stepped on at every turn.
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No. That's like saying I won the lottery, you didn't, so I have to give up my winnings.
A little socialism here, a little there and they win.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
LonestarM3 12/19/2020 1:15:17 AM (No. 636088)
As such as it pains me to acknowledge an intelligent suggestion from a democrat in the current mess, this makes a lot of sense.
The China virus conspiracy has, according to reports, effectively destroyed 20 to 30
percent of all America small businesses, wiping out the life's work of millions of our fellow citizens.
It is no accident that the main players in the scam are the ones who are raking it in as a direct result.
All the small businesses in our home towns are shut down, so Amazon is the alternative. Wallmart is wide open, but the local business trying to compete is shut down..
OK, so it may cost me a few dollars more, but buying from struggling local businesses is better than making he richest man in the world more powerful - especially when he is underwriting the destruction of our Republic.
Maybe Tulsi Gabbert should pull a Phil Graham and switch to Republican (actually nationalist) - She might find the Hawaiians are solidly in favor of freedom.....
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 12/19/2020 4:56:40 AM (No. 636119)
No, Tulsi. I have to disagree. They should just let the small business stay open. This shutdown is only happening in democrat ran states. I never new the virus new political boundaries.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Foont 12/19/2020 5:18:06 AM (No. 636124)
So it is just coincidence that these huge retailers, all of whom pay out millions to various politicians at every level of government, are allowed to operate and make billions while the small businesses who do not buy the politicians are shut down and put out of business. This is "free enterprise" and "capitalism" at work and it is wrong, wrong, wrong to even suggest that the very organizations who lead the charge against the right might be complicit in the shut downs and ruination of millions of Americans and should pay for their complicity.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 12/19/2020 5:23:18 AM (No. 636125)
The Corps mentioned by Tulsi thrive on Chinese Manufactured products. The Wuhan flu is from China. Gibbs Rule 39 applies here. BTW what does Manchurian Joe think about this? Has he consulted with Hunter?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
franq 12/19/2020 7:09:58 AM (No. 636146)
Marxist. Dangerous. Define "excess". Anything the federal government tries to fix stays broken.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
philsner 12/19/2020 7:47:34 AM (No. 636169)
So she is saying that not enough people are being punished for liberal stupidity. What nonsense. It's doubling down on idiocy.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
MDConservative 12/19/2020 9:36:03 AM (No. 636261)
That "New Capitalism" we keep hearing about...sounds like commercial socialism.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Gravedigger59 12/19/2020 9:46:54 AM (No. 636273)
"Redirect profits". Just when you think there might be a conservative in there trying to break out she comes up with a purely socialist plan of wealth distribution.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
paral04 12/19/2020 9:47:59 AM (No. 636275)
Taking people's money away! Well start with Congress and take away their office budget's and the staff fist and give that money to closed business's.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
mc squared 12/19/2020 10:54:40 AM (No. 636360)
So, an admission it ISN'T about anyone's health and safety - it's redistribution.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 12/19/2020 12:59:05 PM (No. 636478)
It's always about the money. Who's got more lobbying power? The local bar owner or Costco? It's interesting liquor stores have remained open (pulling taxes in to the state from liquor sales and cigarette sales - making sure government employees still get THEIR paycheck) but churches, which are tax exempt, were shut down.
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