jimmymccready
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What Comrade Legion is not telling you is that he would be fine if Google or FB or Twitter or whatever censored "liberal" posting.
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Comrade Legion posted the following at https://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?100603-Censorship-in-the-news.
GOOGLE, OTHER TECH PLATFORMS CENSOR CONSERVATIVES
It's no secret that progressives tend to hate big business.
"Fascism should rightly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power," according to Benito Mussolini.
But what the good people of the United States may not know is how far this collusion goes: Corporations with billions of dollars obviously lobby governments — both state and federal — for favors regarding laws, regulations and kickbacks.
A popular form of these favors are subsidies, which are essentially government-sanctioned monetary grants given to a person, business or group "in support of an enterprise regarded as being in the public interest." But the main thing to know about subsidies is that they are our tax dollars.
This means that at best, the government is trying to help invigorate the economy by injecting capital into businesses and causes it deems worthy. At worst, this means government is picking winners and losers without adequate input from the public, and often government makes the wrong choices — especially when the "winners" are corporations with plenty of money to lobby the government for said subsidies. This is what many folks refer to as "corporate welfare," "crony capitalism" or just "crapitalism."
The surprising thing is how many left-leaning multi-billion dollar companies are out there that receive your tax dollars in subsidies every year, in addition to their own profits.
Google is the top tech company that receives government subsidies, picking up more than $630 million from states like Oregon, North Carolina and a few others.
What does a multi-billion dollar company that controls the majority of the world’s Internet need with more than $630 million in government subsidies, you ask?
Well, you know, for things like property taxes and training reimbursements.
What, do you all think that money just grows on trees?! Also, don’t even think about googling "Google government subsidies" because THEY WILL KNOW ABOUT IT.
https://mic.com/articles/85101/10-c...ve-public-subsidies-from-taxpayers#.bOv2ocX7s
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Comrade Legion posted the following at https://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?100603-Censorship-in-the-news.
GOOGLE, OTHER TECH PLATFORMS CENSOR CONSERVATIVES
It's no secret that progressives tend to hate big business.
"Fascism should rightly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power," according to Benito Mussolini.
But what the good people of the United States may not know is how far this collusion goes: Corporations with billions of dollars obviously lobby governments — both state and federal — for favors regarding laws, regulations and kickbacks.
A popular form of these favors are subsidies, which are essentially government-sanctioned monetary grants given to a person, business or group "in support of an enterprise regarded as being in the public interest." But the main thing to know about subsidies is that they are our tax dollars.
This means that at best, the government is trying to help invigorate the economy by injecting capital into businesses and causes it deems worthy. At worst, this means government is picking winners and losers without adequate input from the public, and often government makes the wrong choices — especially when the "winners" are corporations with plenty of money to lobby the government for said subsidies. This is what many folks refer to as "corporate welfare," "crony capitalism" or just "crapitalism."
The surprising thing is how many left-leaning multi-billion dollar companies are out there that receive your tax dollars in subsidies every year, in addition to their own profits.
Google is the top tech company that receives government subsidies, picking up more than $630 million from states like Oregon, North Carolina and a few others.
What does a multi-billion dollar company that controls the majority of the world’s Internet need with more than $630 million in government subsidies, you ask?
Well, you know, for things like property taxes and training reimbursements.
What, do you all think that money just grows on trees?! Also, don’t even think about googling "Google government subsidies" because THEY WILL KNOW ABOUT IT.
https://mic.com/articles/85101/10-c...ve-public-subsidies-from-taxpayers#.bOv2ocX7s
