Rand Paul is fine with adding to the debt when tax cuts for corporate America are on the line but not when it comes to caring for sick 9/11 first responders
Jeff Bezos: I’m spending my fortune on space because we’re turning earth into an uninhabitable hellhole“We humans have to go to space if we are going to continue to have a thriving civilization,” the Blue Origin founderin an interview with CBS News on Tuesday. “We have become big as a population, as a species, and this planet is relatively small. We see it in things like climate change and pollution and heavy industry. We are in the process of destroying this planet.
roughly $1 billion in Amazon stock a year to fund Blue Origin. “There are going to be very nice places to live off earth as well. People will make that choice.”mean Wall StreetThe five largest banks in the United States reaped tens of billions of dollars in profits in the first half of the year, thanks in part to a strong economy and to the lingering effects of President Trump’s tax cuts.
Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo have all seen their tax rates decline to 22 percent or less as a result of the cuts, compared with rates of around 30 percent three years ago, one of the most consistent sources of strength apparent in quarterly earnings reports issued this week. JPMorgan’s tax rate fell to just under 15 percent in this year’s second quarter, although the bank said it would probably inch higher later in the year.
that the “big bonuses” corporations were supposed to dole out after receiving billions in tax breaks resulted in…a penny per worker and, presumably, a note about not spending it all in one place.Despite the fact that a majority of the country thinks his racist tirade against four freshman congresswomen was “
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