Letter to the Editor: Money to Burn
Sunday, August 10, 2025
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When is a dollar not a dollar? When it’s only worth 98¢ - and you’ve just lost your job.
Since January 2025, over half a million people have lost their jobs to DOGE, tariffs and a slowing economy. Meanwhile, tax cuts for billionaires and rising costs of housing, food, energy and healthcare push the rest of us closer to the brink of despair.
These are not “normal” numbers: for instance, tech job losses are up 36% over 2024; retail job losses are up 249%. And those numbers are going to get worse as Trump’s tariffs kick into high gear. When the cost of basic goods forces more of us to make painful choices, more businesses will close - and more jobs will be lost. All while Trump spends $200 million on a “golden ballroom”, $1 billion on a “golden jet”, and $1 million per day while he golfs at Mar a Lago (21 days in the first 6 months of 2025 alone).
What can we do? Hit. The. Streets. Change will happen when politicians of both parties fear losing their seats unless they fight the far-right agenda. This Labor Day, join your neighbors at a “Workers Over Billionaires” march, sign-waving or other demonstration. (Find one near you at www.mobilize.us.) Let’s remind them - in a voice too loud to ignore - that they took an oath to work for the people, not for the rich.
Otherwise, we might as well burn our dollar bills for heat.
Sandy Labyris
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7 comments:
Yes. And when we get a federal tariff bonus check signed by DT and equivalent to 1/4 of our increased grocery costs, people will praise him.
There has to be a consequence involved with a protest action. Demand that all your politicians show up and if they don't then make a list and vote them out. Make them say in person that they prefer Billionaire Bailouts over people having healthcare. Then make a list, organize, and vote them out.
If you honestly believe we are getting checks, I have a bridge to sell you.
Just a reminder that if there is a cash grab for the money and businesses of the billionaires they can easily pick up and move and take their companies with them. On a micro scale you just have to look and the companies who left Seattle and moved across the lake. Easy Peasy. Or the companies who have left Cal for Texas and NC. An eat the rich ideology doesn't work out as well as you might think.
Higher the taxes the less businesses want to stay. Remember what drove Boeing out was the taxes placed on them. Amazon dropping its footprint in Seattle over the “head tax”. Socialist do not generate independent income, they tax those that do. How is that gas tax working out?
This Labor Day I think we will go on a bit of a trip rather than protest capitalism which has allowed us to make the money to go on said trip.
Boeing didn't leave because of taxes. Boeing left for multitude of reasons - Seattle is hours away from DC; Chicago is centrally located. Seattle area workers are paid union wages so Boeing shifted to states with lower wages. Boeing lost track of "engineering" and went for stockholder earnings. Who made the decision to have machined parts (that all need to be identical in very specific measurements) to Italy, the home of one-of-a-kind, everything is different design and craftsmanship? Boeing left for sweetheart deals with Mr. Trump for Air Force One (how much has that debacle cost the company?) and continued preference for future weapons and space contracts.
Next time a wealthy person says they will leave the area if a certain tax or law is passed, I reply, don't let the door hit you on the way out.
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