user avatar
Warren Gunnels
@GunnelsWarren
Minority Staff Director for Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Ranking Member @SenSanders Blatantly Pro-Union AKA: Chief of Receipts
Joined July 2014
Posts
  • Pinned
    user avatar
    If Bernie's 5% annual wealth tax on billionaires had been enacted in 2012, Elon Musk would be worth less than $365 billion instead of the $834 billion that he's worth today. He'd still be the wealthiest man alive & every senior would have dental, vision & hearing under Medicare.
    BREAKING: Today Bernie Sanders is proposing a bill to raise $4.4 trillion in taxes from America’s billionaires — a move that would virtually cut their massive fortunes in half. A chunk of the money would go toward sending a $3K stimulus check to every person earning under $150K.
  • user avatar
    Average Weekly Wages 1973: $873 2022: $813 Median Home 1973: $30,200 2022: $433,100 Monthly Rent 1973: $108 2022: $2,002 Tuition and Fees at University of California 1973: $150 2022: $13,104 Boomer: But why can't the slackers pay for college & pay off their loans like we did?
    Readers added context they thought people might want to knowReaders added context
    According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, average weekly earnings for non-supervisory employees in July, 1973 were $153.14. Those same figures show average weekly earnings in July, 2022 were $937.38 fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=Ta2D
    Context is written by people who use X, and appears when rated helpful by others. Find out more.
  • user avatar
    Netanyahu: I need $6 billion more Trump: Approved Argentina: We need $20 billion Trump: Approved Musk: SpaceX needs $5.9 billion Trump: Approved Bezos: Amazon needs $16 billion Trump: Approved Average Joe: My wife got cancer. I lost my job. Can we get Medicaid? Trump: Denied
  • user avatar
    If Bernie’s Social Security bill was enacted in 2021, Musk would have paid $2.9 billion more in taxes, Social Security would’ve been solvent for 75 years, benefits would’ve increased by $2,400 & 93% of Americans would have paid Zero more in taxes. The only one “entitled” is Musk.
    Elon Musk suggests he wants to cut “500 billion dollars” from programs like Social Security and Medicare, calling them “entitlements”
    00:00
  • user avatar
    Elon Musk Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2025: $486 billion Larry Ellison Wealth 2009: $23 billion 2025: $370 billion Mark Zuckerberg Wealth 2008: $1.5 billion 2025: $245 billion Jeff Bezos Wealth 1998: $1.6 billion 2025: $233 billion Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2025: $7.25 Obscene
  • user avatar
    Oh, Canada! Life expectancy 🇨🇦: 82.6 🇺🇸: 78.4 Infant deaths per 1,000 births 🇨🇦: 3.7 🇺🇸: 5.2 Yearly deaths from lack of health insurance 🇺🇸: 68,000 🇨🇦: 0 Ozempic's Price 🇺🇸: $998 🇨🇦: $155 Uninsured/Underinsured 🇺🇸: 85 million 🇨🇦: 0 Admin Costs Per Capita 🇺🇸: $1,055 🇨🇦: $196
    Trump: "I would love to see Canada be the 51st state. The Canadians citizens, if that happened ... they'd have much better health coverage."
    00:00
  • user avatar
    Welcome to the Divided States of Oligarchy: Elon Musk Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2025: $449 billion Jeff Bezos Wealth 2012: $18 billion 2025: $245 billion Mark Zuckerberg Wealth 2012: $44 billion 2025: $217 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 an hour 2025: $7.25 an hour
  • user avatar
    Elon Musk: I need $1.5 billion or SpaceX will go broke Feds: Approved Intel CEO: We need $76 billion or we're moving to Asia Feds: Approved (Intel cuts jobs) United CEO: Airlines need $54 billion Feds: Approved Average Joe: My wife got cancer. Can we get Medicare? Feds: Denied
  • user avatar
    Oil prices today: $115.83 a barrel Gas prices today: $5.01 a gallon Oil prices in April of 2008: $116.50 Gas prices in April of 2008: $3.51 a gallon Gas prices are $1.50 a gallon higher than they should be because of the greed of big oil. It's time for a windfall profits tax.
  • user avatar
    Elon Musk: I need $1.5 billion or SpaceX will go broke Feds: Approved Lloyd Blankfein: I need $824 billion for Goldman Sachs Feds: Approved Charles Koch: I need a $1.4 billion tax break Feds: Approved Average Joe: My wife got cancer. Can we get Medicare? Feds: We're bankrupt
  • user avatar
    Dollar Tree made $1,230,000,000 in profits this year, gave its CEO $10,767,883 and pays workers as little as $8.32 an hour. Over 7,400 Dollar Tree employees are forced to rely on food stamps and Medicaid subsidized by U.S. taxpayers. Cite the damn corporate greed.
    Dollar Tree raises price point to $1.25, citing inflation. nbcnews.to/3r58ry3
  • user avatar
    Jeff Bezos, worth $240 billion, sailed on his $500 million yacht to a $55 million wedding in Venice to give his wife a $5 million ring & spends $12.7 million on union busting so he can replace workers with robots. His tax rate: 1.1%. 5 words: Tax billionaires out of existence.
    JUST IN: Amazon aiming to replace 600,000 jobs with robots by 2033
  • user avatar
    They say the Green New Deal is expensive. Compared to what?
    We were given a paradise; the Garden of Eden; and we squandered it. Welcome to hell, folks.
    00:00
  • user avatar
    Elon Musk Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2024: $447 billion Jeff Bezos Wealth 2012: $18 billion 2024: $249 billion Mark Zuckerberg Wealth 2012: $44 billion 2024: $224 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 an hour 2024: $7.25 an hour 5 words: Tax billionaires out of existence