• collapse_already
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      3 months ago

      Tax on realized capital gains above $500k. Capital gains taxed as ordinary income or maybe a higher rate than OI since it isn’t really earned by the investor but by the labor of the employees of the company they “invested” in.

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    You mean gouging not inflation, inflation is across the board, these companies are not paying proportionally more to make the product just gouging the end customers.

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    When the CEOs (Kroger, looking at you) are literally bragging on quarterly earnings calls about raising prices and keeping them there just because they can - we call that Price Gouging. If only we had some kind of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that could help to regulate these greedy business practices…