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Apple Continued to Spend Near-Record Amounts of Money Lobbying the Trump Administration in 2018
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I don’t see as how they have much choice with this cheeseball. Jobs never lobbied, until he had to.
Perhaps. Conservative approaches to wealth building have been more successful overall for the country, compared to a “tax the rich” approach; and the “buying” of those on power may be a small part of it.
I prefer not to delve into a conversation about whether conservatism or liberalism is better
Suffice to say, that either approach has their bad actors and corrupt politicians.
Peace!
I'm Australian, and if any Government here used a mass number of Gov employees as leverage over the opposition to pass a piece of legislation there'd be mass protests, I think. How any political leader could do that is beyond me. And I understand Mitch McConnell has the power the end the shutdown? You'd think the most powerful nation on earth could just end this and work it out without making 800,000 (plus their families) suffer.
Yet they aren't, Trumps trade issues with China are negatively affecting Apple's bottom line.
The revolution takes place at the ballot box. And as long as the oblivions and sheeple of this country continue to vote the same people into office decade after decade (people who have long forgotten what an average American is), than nothing is going to change.
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Shh! They don't want that factual information! Get it out of here!
Right...because Trump is such a fountain of truth.
To be sure, it overruled a previous precedent. But in doing so it put things back in line, when it came to corporate free speech rights, with how they had been previously been. Generally speaking corporations are protected by, e.g., the Bill of Rights just as individuals are. (At core that's because it is, when we think it through, the rights of individuals which are really at stake even if those individuals are acting in the context of a corporation.) There can, of course, be exceptions.
I'd also try to make another thing clear: Citizens United had nothing to do with campaign contributions. Corporations are still prohibited from donating money to political campaigns or parties. But they are free to speak to issues on their own (to include in connection with elections), and that (as is the case with so many of the rights we enjoy) necessarily means that they are free to spend money to facilitate their own speech.
I'm center left, but I do not believe in some sort of utopia of diversity and equality for all. Its just never going to happen. And you're correct, all throughout history centralized power, becomes corrupted and fails. Here's hoping one of the most centralized powers, China, will burnout to nothing, because as I see it, the greatest threat isn't Islamic radicals. its China.
Her book deal is worth an estimated $65 million. Her current (November 2018) net worth is estimated at $40 million, not $140 million. And "within one year" of what?
It should be illegal for any company to bribe our government officials. No chance they would ever pass a law to stop this or have TERM LIMITS!
Isn't Apple paying more to this administration?
Prove it that the Conservatives have been better for the economy/people from history.
And, don't distance yourself fro the statement you just made - stand by it.
Neither is better - there is middle ground.
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Look at his username. "Pepe" is a symbol of the alt-right. You aren't going to get anywhere speaking sense to someone as pathetic as that.
This has to be one of the most ill-informed replies I could've gotten. This is like you took all the platitudes given on Faux News, Rush Limbaugh, and Breitbart and summarized it poorly.
The unemployment rate has been falling since 2009, Thanks Obama! Underemployment was the problem then that we continued to talk about as being a problem since it was flat... and it's GROWING now, an even bigger problem.
Illegal immigration is virtually non-existent - the ones most frequently tagged in these discussions, are people that just overstayed their tourist Visa. Again, Thanks Obama! He solved the immigration problems just fine and there's been a steady, irrefutable, decline in illegal arrivals since he put in place his programs and, having been the most aggressive with deportations of any modern president, the total population present within the US is the lowest it's been since 1970. Whoops! So much for kicking things down the curb.
"Both parties are equally corrupt" -- is the type of thinking that explains why we have a criminally corrupt, morally absent, total moron as President. They are not equal, they aren't even on the same plane. You have 2 choices, a vote for a 3rd is a vote for the corrupt right. Trump just isn't the worst President of all-time, he has *already* set the bar to unreachable levels and it keeps getting higher.
Well, Apple , Amazon , Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. , all based in the US , all making maximum profit for minimum social relevance .
Legalized bribery in an otherwise stable country sure works for some people - if you consider corporations being people, that is .
Legalized bribery in an otherwise stable country sure works for some people - if you consider corporations being people, that is .
The only leg you guys have to stand on. Even though he was handed an economy on the upswing from a recession.
And funny how the national debt and balancing the budget are only a concern when someone else is in office. What's the national debt now with the tax break for the rich?
And how many peoples 401K's dropped with the stock market dropping from our "leadership"?
And I'm sure all the federal workers agree about the wonderful job Mr Twitter Fingers is doing.
What has Trump done specifically to take credit for the so called “record low unemployment?” I’d like some actual facts to back up your regurgitated talking points.
I would laugh if it wasn't so sad.
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Yeah so great, it's going so well for you guys. Once the full extend of the disaster that the ORANGE MAN is causing will hit the world economy, he hopefully won't be in office anymore and you can go blame the dems again for what he caused. Fantastic! Make America great again!
Now they haven't been. It's just typical of vulture capitalists....they only see the short term and not the long term. The economy was going to be great regardless. The next president will have to clean up all the trade war damage and reassure allies going forward that Trump wont happen again. The logical next step for most countries will be to insulate themselves from any fallout related to US actions.