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At Davos, Oxfam calls for a windfall tax on food companies
Deutsche Welle ^ | January 16, 2023

Posted on 01/16/2023 4:14:24 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What the world needs is an end for Oxfam

The world does not need the wackos at Oxfam. Starvation is survival of the fittest mechanism ans separates those who can from those who can’t


21 posted on 01/16/2023 6:33:58 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality daythis piece is )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How about a windfall tax on Pfizer and Moderna?
Say, 300% of last year’s profits?


22 posted on 01/16/2023 6:39:17 AM PST by grey_whiskers ( (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“”should pay windfall taxes to help tackle global inequality,””

Now we have to be concerned about GLOBAL INEQUALITY?????

How EQUAL are the attendees to Davos to the people who live in the countries they come from????? Let equality start WITH THEM!!! Share their yachts and planes and 2nd and 3rd homes with lesser folk....


23 posted on 01/16/2023 6:51:46 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Made In The USA

I was thinking of something a bit more destructive - leaving it unfit for humans for 100 + years.


24 posted on 01/16/2023 6:55:15 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So now the WEF is making taxation policy? Never mind those pesky constitutions around the world.


25 posted on 01/16/2023 7:00:11 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: NorthMountain

Communism is where all property and the means of production are owned by the state. A windfall profit tax is not Communism it is looting.


26 posted on 01/16/2023 7:07:08 AM PST by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dear Vlad:
46.8027° N, 9.8360° E
You know what needs to be done.


27 posted on 01/16/2023 7:07:56 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: no-to-illegals

..Taxes are paid by consumers. Corporations pay NO taxes…

Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect taxes.


28 posted on 01/16/2023 7:24:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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To: TiGuy22

Hate to tell you that economics is not what you think. Corporations pay NO taxes. Btw show me some lower prices, please


29 posted on 01/16/2023 7:33:37 AM PST by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That is one way to explain …… corporations collect taxes


30 posted on 01/16/2023 7:34:46 AM PST by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: no-to-illegals

I’ve owned businesses. You’re not correct. In business to business commodity related products price can go down, and do, in cycles. Taxes can be out of pocket.


31 posted on 01/16/2023 8:51:19 AM PST by TiGuy22
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To: wildcard_redneck

They want you to eat the new biotech food. You can’t be a good consumer if you’re dead.
Trump supports this and EO’d it 2019: https://www.bio.org/blogs/executive-order-agricultural-biotechnology-important-step-forward
I can’t link the pdf report, but you can look it up. #13874.


32 posted on 01/16/2023 9:07:30 AM PST by M_Continuum
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To: M_Continuum
"They want you to eat the new biotech food. You can’t be a good consumer if you’re dead."

I don't care what President Trump wanted and I am a fan. Taxing food producers just gets passed on to the consumer, it doesn't help anyone. The globalist left constantly talks about reducing population and I'm taking them at their word. If the WEF snakes keep up this crap and there will be a worldwide revolution.

33 posted on 01/16/2023 9:45:49 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (Germans are bat-crap crazy for cold showers, high energy bills, and boiled turnips.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

It isn’t what he wanted, it’s what he did.

The WEF is focused on deglobalization, here hot off the presses: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/davos23-global-operating-models-talent-and-technology-strategies/
Yes, they do, but not in the way y’all imagine it. which is fear and paranoia, right where they want you.
There will be no worldwide revolution. Most are too entitled to do so. Folks lose our minds if they can’t get their favorite coffee or name-brand formula. We mass consume, leaving others to do without in a crisis, even minor ones. We will destroy ourselves before ‘they’ do.


34 posted on 01/16/2023 10:15:30 AM PST by M_Continuum
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Revenue raised from this windfall tax will go towards welfare programs and to help smaller food retailers.


Think about it.......................


35 posted on 01/16/2023 10:21:06 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: M_Continuum

Why are you here if you think it is unwinnable?


36 posted on 01/16/2023 10:59:00 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (Germans are bat-crap crazy for cold showers, high energy bills, and boiled turnips.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

I’m here because I believe it’s winnable, but it will require hard work. No memes or keyboard warriors, but folks working and demanding a different way.


37 posted on 01/16/2023 11:02:08 AM PST by M_Continuum
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Who do the purveyors of this stupidity think actually pays the increased taxes on things like this?


38 posted on 01/16/2023 11:26:55 AM PST by oldtech
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To: TiGuy22

I’ve owned too. If cost of business was not passed on I would have been out of business. If you were unable to pass your costs along then you were overpriced to begin with and could absorb additional cost of doing business. Some businesses owners are not as fortunate to sell overpriced commodities


39 posted on 01/16/2023 1:22:57 PM PST by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: NorthMountain

“Windfall profits tax” is straight up communism.

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Agree.


40 posted on 01/16/2023 4:12:43 PM PST by Graybeard58
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