[luminadiffusion]

You’re telling me that baby chicks are arriving dead to farmers across the Midwest. Food and medicines are spoiling from being stored in facilities that are not designed for storage. Old people and vets on VA plans are being forced to wait for their prescriptions sometimes for over 1 week after they are due.

All because this critical infrastructure lost $6B last year?!?!

The DoD’s base annual budget for 2020 was $633B - and they will spend every single penny of it.

The USPS spends less than 1% of our base DoD budget to deliver timely mail to every single registered household in the US.

Oh, by the way, this corrupt administration PLANNED TO LOSE $1.06T BEFORE THE PANDEMIC.

And, taxes collected from individual citizens make up approximately 60% of our Federal budget. Taxes on corporations make up just 7%. The rest is a smattering of funds that come from trade, interest from the Fed, and other sources.

If you ever wondered who this American government works for... it is not “We the People”.

The citizens are not treated like they directly pay for more than half of government expenses. They don’t even matter enough to support consistent communication infrastructure.

Your elderly grandparents can’t have your medicine on time because it costs the postal service an average of $0.033 above their collected revenue to mail each item...

...while each Javelin missile we fire at some poor goat herder in Afghanistan costs the same as a small house in the suburbs of a major US city.

The level of corruption in this administration and this entire government is more than nauseating - and the fact that they are doing with my tax dollars adds insult to injury. The shock is wearing off - and below it is nothing but rage.

[twiceaday]

Isn't payroll tax kinda like a 'per employee' corporate tax? In most cases, what is the point of looking at your pre-tax salary? It just seems like creative accounting between the company and the government(s). In most cases, all of the decisions you or your company make around salary deal with take-home pay. Companies must be paying people more specifically to account for payroll taxes. That amount is effectively the corporate per-employee tax.

[simsla]

No, not in any material way.

- When there's a rise in payroll tax across the board, I'd be extremely surprised all companies across the board raise their salaries. By default, a payroll tax hike will go out of the employee's cut.

- There are many huge companies whose payroll and profit are largely decoupled (as in, employee salaries are not a great indicator for company profit). Think McDonald's, Amazon, Walmart.

[apta]

> The level of corruption in this administration and this entire government is more than nauseating

Let's be fair, it's not just this administration, it's administrations before it as well. How many bombs and rockets did Obama drop and fire?

[krapp]

No, not all administrations are equally corrupt. And Obama "dropping and firing rockets" is not an example of corruption.