Ted Rall for May 17, 2018

I like #1 and #3 ideas best. A cool $422 would be nice but such a wide spread giveaway would dilute its effect.

I’m disappointed, Ted. You left out creating an endowment to help the low level Amazon employees who are treated worse than freaking Walmart treats theirs. I read an article a couple of weeks ago from a reporter who worked undercover as an Amazon order picker. He was yelled at just for daring to use the freaking bathroom.

C’mon, be reasonable. How can you expect him to do anything that would not benefit the rich and powerful?

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Paying for people to go to college is advantageous to all Americans, including the 1%. It gives more people more money to spend, which improves the economy. The average college graduate pays about $5800 more a year in federal taxes than the average high school graduate. Over 30 years, that totals about $172,000. If that’s divided by the 4 years it takes to get a college education, the government would break even if it paid every student $42,000 a year to attend school.

This doesn’t even consider that with the degree, the person is less likely to ever need unemployment or welfare, that more students would complete high school if they could see a clear way to a really good job, and that they would be enriching the Social Security and Medicare funds. They would also be paying a larger amount in all other types of taxes.The best investment we could make to keep America strong is to not just forgive all student loans but to make all higher education, as long as the student is making decent grades, totally free, and increase the number of schools and teachers to make room for all who can profit from the education. We don’t, even at a time of high unemployment, have so much a lack of jobs as we have a lack of people who have the skills to perform the jobs that are available- in other words, a lack of education.

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OK, but why is Amazon so big? What nefarious scheming made it so? Who provided all the sources of income to Bezos for his “ill-gotten gains”? And how is revolutionary redistribution going to occur without destroying the system, leaving everyone worse off than before?

Panel 4 / why should the socialist revolution stop with Bezos ? Why not appropriate the wealth of anyone with more than $10,000 and redistribute it to those with less ? That way we can force everyone to be ‘equal’.

Wait, I have a much better idea: Use the money to build a golf course in Jerusalem, near the Embassy, using “Palestinian freedom fighters” as employees , just so Trump can go golfing next time he in the neighborhood. Neat huh?

You have to work harder and faster every year so they can make more profit.

The 1% took 85% of the profits last year.

Spend it and its gone. Invest it and it creates more.

Some of you apologists for Mr. Bezos and others of his ilk need a reality check. Even if he contributed something useful to society. or even marginally useful like Bill Gates, he didn’t make his money in a vacuum. He used the roads, the utilities, the schools (even private universities are huge beneficiaries of tax money), emergency services and on and on. Add to that the structure of society that allows him to repress unions, avoid taxes and have a lower tax rate and on and on. Isn’t it time he gave something back, even if only by paying a fair wage? `

Panel #4 is my favorite. I’d prefer a change in tax policy, wherein we institute a wealth tax, taking 10% of all assets over $1 billion each year, but it will probably take a violent revolution for that to happen, so might as well just take it all at once when it does.