Master thread: companies giving bonuses/raising minimum wage/investing in workers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just table scraps, for example, the combined total for Disney is probably less than the bonus of the CEO. And we are supposed to be grateful? F it.

You sound like Nancy Pelosi. Or, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. A little out of touch, perhaps?

but ^PP has a point. People are going gaga over $1000 one time bonus while the uber rich get a 6% tax cut for eight years. It is kind of humiliating.

Interesting.
Back in Dec., 2011, Pelosi was promoting a payroll tax cut by Obama with this tweet:

"Today's agreement is a victory for the American people-they spoke out clearly & #40dollars each paycheck will make a difference.”

Wow, what a difference a change in administration can make. #HypocriteNancyPelosi

[Anonymous]

Nobody wants to answer this.

What percentage of the tax cuts is going to employees and new jobs?

For all of the companies listed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I get a one time $1,000 bonus but schools shootings are out of control. Nice job trying to make me look the other way.

Any incident like the one in Kentucky is horrible and I lament the loss of life and suffering...but your statement is asinine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nobody wants to answer this.

What percentage of the tax cuts is going to employees and new jobs?

For all of the companies listed.

I doubt there is an answer at this point and it may take a few years to see a clear trend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just table scraps, for example, the combined total for Disney is probably less than the bonus of the CEO. And we are supposed to be grateful? F it.

You sound like Nancy Pelosi. Or, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. A little out of touch, perhaps?

but ^PP has a point. People are going gaga over $1000 one time bonus while the uber rich get a 6% tax cut for eight years. It is kind of humiliating.

Interesting.
Back in Dec., 2011, Pelosi was promoting a payroll tax cut by Obama with this tweet:

"Today's agreement is a victory for the American people-they spoke out clearly & #40dollars each paycheck will make a difference.”

Wow, what a difference a change in administration can make. #HypocriteNancyPelosi

Not really. People didn't even notice the increase because it was so small. So, she's learned from experience. With these latest tax cuts, most people can expect to see about a $30 increase in their paychecks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nobody wants to answer this.

What percentage of the tax cuts is going to employees and new jobs?

For all of the companies listed.

Exactly, answer this! Don't make us puke blathering about how generous the shitty companies are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody wants to answer this.

What percentage of the tax cuts is going to employees and new jobs?

For all of the companies listed.

I doubt there is an answer at this point and it may take a few years to see a clear trend.

There is a straight answer just for 2018. What % is the corporate tax cut? How much that is for Disney, Walmart.... and how much bonus they have given to executives in 2017? How much are they giving to the rest of the 99.9% employees?

[Anonymous]

Economic growth rate for 2017 was 2.3%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just table scraps, for example, the combined total for Disney is probably less than the bonus of the CEO. And we are supposed to be grateful? F it.

You sound like Nancy Pelosi. Or, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. A little out of touch, perhaps?

but ^PP has a point. People are going gaga over $1000 one time bonus while the uber rich get a 6% tax cut for eight years. It is kind of humiliating.

You think an hourly worker is "humiliated" when he gets a $1000 bonus? You are so out of touch with the working man.

I think it's humiliating for people to be celebrating for scraps being thrown their way while the uber rich feast.

If you were at the dinner table, and the person next to you got the choice cut of meat while you gut the burnt end bits, and the host said, "oh, aren't we generous for giving you food" , wouldn't you feel humiliated? I suppose if you were poor and a beggar you'd be glad for any scraps. That's the image I have. The Rs/Trump see the middle class as beggars who should be grateful for the tiniest morsels.

First, $1000 isn't "scraps." Get out of your bubble.

Second, with your dinner table example, you are acting as if everyone is equal - in terms of contributions, education, work effort, skills, ability, value to the company, etc. - which is of course the liberal utopia. If I were at a table with a sales director who brought in $10 million in sales and was rewarded with a $100 bottle of champagne, and I and the first line salespeople each brought in $500,000 and were rewarded with a $20 bottle of wine, I WOULd UNDERSTAND THAT. I wouldn't cry that I got a "scrap" while the person contributing more got more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody wants to answer this.

What percentage of the tax cuts is going to employees and new jobs?

For all of the companies listed.

I doubt there is an answer at this point and it may take a few years to see a clear trend.

There is a straight answer just for 2018. What % is the corporate tax cut? How much that is for Disney, Walmart.... and how much bonus they have given to executives in 2017? How much are they giving to the rest of the 99.9% employees?

No, there isn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just table scraps, for example, the combined total for Disney is probably less than the bonus of the CEO. And we are supposed to be grateful? F it.

You sound like Nancy Pelosi. Or, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. A little out of touch, perhaps?

but ^PP has a point. People are going gaga over $1000 one time bonus while the uber rich get a 6% tax cut for eight years. It is kind of humiliating.

Interesting.
Back in Dec., 2011, Pelosi was promoting a payroll tax cut by Obama with this tweet:

"Today's agreement is a victory for the American people-they spoke out clearly & #40dollars each paycheck will make a difference.”

Wow, what a difference a change in administration can make. #HypocriteNancyPelosi

whoosh.. that's the sound of the point going over your head.....

It's not about the amount of the bonus or increase in wages in and of itself, like in the case you mention. It's about the fact that the 1% got a MUCH bigger tax cut than the middle, and the one time bonus (as nice as it is) is not the same as an on-going huge tax cut for the rich.

It's all relative. That's the point. If they got the bonus and $1/hour increase while the uber rich also got just a tiny increase, then that's fair. But, this lop sided tax cut and "give away" is otherwise pretty insulting to the middle class by the Rs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just table scraps, for example, the combined total for Disney is probably less than the bonus of the CEO. And we are supposed to be grateful? F it.

You sound like Nancy Pelosi. Or, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. A little out of touch, perhaps?

but ^PP has a point. People are going gaga over $1000 one time bonus while the uber rich get a 6% tax cut for eight years. It is kind of humiliating.

Interesting.
Back in Dec., 2011, Pelosi was promoting a payroll tax cut by Obama with this tweet:

"Today's agreement is a victory for the American people-they spoke out clearly & #40dollars each paycheck will make a difference.”

Wow, what a difference a change in administration can make. #HypocriteNancyPelosi

whoosh.. that's the sound of the point going over your head.....

It's not about the amount of the bonus or increase in wages in and of itself, like in the case you mention. It's about the fact that the 1% got a MUCH bigger tax cut than the middle, and the one time bonus (as nice as it is) is not the same as an on-going huge tax cut for the rich.

It's all relative. That's the point. If they got the bonus and $1/hour increase while the uber rich also got just a tiny increase, then that's fair. But, this lop sided tax cut and "give away" is otherwise pretty insulting to the middle class by the Rs.

So, you are upset that we no longer have the largest corporate tax in the developed world? Yeah, that is something to run on for the Democrats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just table scraps, for example, the combined total for Disney is probably less than the bonus of the CEO. And we are supposed to be grateful? F it.

You sound like Nancy Pelosi. Or, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. A little out of touch, perhaps?

but ^PP has a point. People are going gaga over $1000 one time bonus while the uber rich get a 6% tax cut for eight years. It is kind of humiliating.

You think an hourly worker is "humiliated" when he gets a $1000 bonus? You are so out of touch with the working man.

I think it's humiliating for people to be celebrating for scraps being thrown their way while the uber rich feast.

If you were at the dinner table, and the person next to you got the choice cut of meat while you gut the burnt end bits, and the host said, "oh, aren't we generous for giving you food" , wouldn't you feel humiliated? I suppose if you were poor and a beggar you'd be glad for any scraps. That's the image I have. The Rs/Trump see the middle class as beggars who should be grateful for the tiniest morsels.

First, $1000 isn't "scraps." Get out of your bubble.

Second, with your dinner table example, you are acting as if everyone is equal - in terms of contributions, education, work effort, skills, ability, value to the company, etc. - which is of course the liberal utopia. If I were at a table with a sales director who brought in $10 million in sales and was rewarded with a $100 bottle of champagne, and I and the first line salespeople each brought in $500,000 and were rewarded with a $20 bottle of wine, I WOULd UNDERSTAND THAT. I wouldn't cry that I got a "scrap" while the person contributing more got more.

It's a scrap compared to the millions the uber rich are getting. You have a low opinion of the middle class and what they deserve.

You are assuming that all rich people have a higher work ethic, education, blah blah blah.No. Some of the uber rich inherited the money with not much work put into it.

And btw, the upper middle class may see a tax increase in the high tax states. That's why a lot of Rs in VA voted straight down Dem in the last local election.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just table scraps, for example, the combined total for Disney is probably less than the bonus of the CEO. And we are supposed to be grateful? F it.

You sound like Nancy Pelosi. Or, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. A little out of touch, perhaps?

but ^PP has a point. People are going gaga over $1000 one time bonus while the uber rich get a 6% tax cut for eight years. It is kind of humiliating.

Interesting.
Back in Dec., 2011, Pelosi was promoting a payroll tax cut by Obama with this tweet:

"Today's agreement is a victory for the American people-they spoke out clearly & #40dollars each paycheck will make a difference.”

Wow, what a difference a change in administration can make. #HypocriteNancyPelosi

whoosh.. that's the sound of the point going over your head.....

It's not about the amount of the bonus or increase in wages in and of itself, like in the case you mention. It's about the fact that the 1% got a MUCH bigger tax cut than the middle, and the one time bonus (as nice as it is) is not the same as an on-going huge tax cut for the rich.

It's all relative. That's the point. If they got the bonus and $1/hour increase while the uber rich also got just a tiny increase, then that's fair. But, this lop sided tax cut and "give away" is otherwise pretty insulting to the middle class by the Rs.

So, you are upset that we no longer have the largest corporate tax in the developed world? Yeah, that is something to run on for the Democrats.

? You do understand the difference between a corporate tax cut and the personal income tax cuts, right? Where in any of my post did I refer to the corporate tax cut? Something is off all right... your reading comprehension skills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just table scraps, for example, the combined total for Disney is probably less than the bonus of the CEO. And we are supposed to be grateful? F it.

You sound like Nancy Pelosi. Or, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. A little out of touch, perhaps?

but ^PP has a point. People are going gaga over $1000 one time bonus while the uber rich get a 6% tax cut for eight years. It is kind of humiliating.

You think an hourly worker is "humiliated" when he gets a $1000 bonus? You are so out of touch with the working man.

I think it's humiliating for people to be celebrating for scraps being thrown their way while the uber rich feast.

If you were at the dinner table, and the person next to you got the choice cut of meat while you gut the burnt end bits, and the host said, "oh, aren't we generous for giving you food" , wouldn't you feel humiliated? I suppose if you were poor and a beggar you'd be glad for any scraps. That's the image I have. The Rs/Trump see the middle class as beggars who should be grateful for the tiniest morsels.

First, $1000 isn't "scraps." Get out of your bubble.

Second, with your dinner table example, you are acting as if everyone is equal - in terms of contributions, education, work effort, skills, ability, value to the company, etc. - which is of course the liberal utopia. If I were at a table with a sales director who brought in $10 million in sales and was rewarded with a $100 bottle of champagne, and I and the first line salespeople each brought in $500,000 and were rewarded with a $20 bottle of wine, I WOULd UNDERSTAND THAT. I wouldn't cry that I got a "scrap" while the person contributing more got more.

and what are these employees getting next year? A wage increase is better than a one-time bonus, as nice as it is. This bonus give away is a PR stunt.