It's investment income that gets off easy at tax time...And this may be the real heart of more troubles and "costs" to this nation than just our obvious budgetary shortfalls...
So, Are investors "job creators"? Let's look at what kinds of economic activity might be going on that would create employment for Americans....
Do investors really "work"? What do they really do all day? Just sit around counting their money? Mindlessly investing in whatever might not make them more money?
Let's look at where "investment incomes" really come from, and see what those silly "job creators" are busy doing for a moment shall we?
Investment income = Wall Street banks were given bailout money
Investment income = profits from use of cheap overseas labor putting you out of work
Investment income = Every product you buy that was manufactured overseas
Investment income = agricultural practices depleting aquifer, desertifying soils
Investment income = Air, water quality, poor nutrition, leading to the increased need for health care.
Investment income = GMO foods (giant mutant salmon, anyone?)
Investment income = Chemical soaked monocultured crops (miles miles of glyphosate soaked soybean fields anyone?)
Investment income = Hemp illegal, though it's one of the most diverse, single crops to grow with the least environmental impact
Investment income = War on Drugs (Prison population a disgrace)
Investment income = Privatized prisons making some serious cash
Investment income = HUGE incentives greasing the palms of politicians and judges.
Investment income = Health care industry (it pays to make people sick).
Investment income = Pharmaceuticals -( how many people on anti-anxiety/anti-depressants now???
Invstment income = agricultural subsidies
Investment income = Oil Subsidies
Investment income = Privatized education (expensive and low quality taking "public" money (vouchers, or student loans) usually for students who are not going to pass.
Investment income = The war machine, i.e. Halliburton, Diebold, et al, more "public funds"
Investment income = bottled water companies buy your municipal water and sell it for a profit.
Investment income = Fracking for gasoline, ruining private wells
Investment income = The gas industry uses 30 million gallons of clean, potable water to frack one well (take that times thousands)
Investment income = selling natural gas to India
Investment income = increased rates of cancer
Investment income = Corporate Whores getting rich and screwing America over.
Investment income = Maximizing profits despite any social or environmental cost
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