Posted on 11/06/2019 3:44:29 AM PST by Libloather
Independent Vermont senator and 2020 presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is not impressed by tech giant Apple’s efforts to increase the supply of affordable housing in California amid a growing crisis.
In a statement on Monday evening, Sanders called out the Cupertino, California-based company out for trying to distract from a problem it helped create.
“Apple's announcement that it is entering the real estate lending business is an effort to distract from the fact that it has helped create California's housing crisis – all while raking in $800 million of taxpayer subsidies, and keeping a quarter trillion dollars of profit offshore, in order to avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes,” Sanders said. “Today, more than 134,000 Californians are homeless and renters need to earn $34.69 per hour to afford the average two-bedroom apartment. We cannot rely on corporate tax evaders to solve California's housing crisis.”
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Bernie would have problems spelling “Apple”
I think he has now lost any Silicon Valley support he might have had.
So now it is a bad thing to pay good salaries to your workers because they use those salaries in part to increase the demand for housing?
It is a true mystery how this greasy old socialist fart ever gained any traction.
Apple helped create homelessness ... by paying wages that drive op housing costs?
Communists can do better
Call Comrade Kaprugjna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq__Z-Z_Ofs
“It is a true mystery how this greasy old socialist fart ever gained any traction.”
He became the voice of every limousine liberal’s inner socialist. He became their admonishing shaking finger. He has the added attraction of being unelectable because they all realize that if his philosophy prevails they would have to open their homes to every bum on the street. (Or, perhaps they think THEY are too important to be bothered by the confiscatory IRS. After all, they supported Bernie so “don’t touch me. I’m pure.”)
Because, fairness, and equality, and ..
We cannot rely on corporate tax evaders to solve California’s housing crisis ...Rely on me instead. I’ll fix everything that is broken with a wave of my Grand Socialist Wand which will magically lighten your bank and wallet at the same time - simply magic ... you’ll be amazed!
Apparently Tim Cook never watched this.
https://komonews.com/news/local/komo-news-special-seattle-is-dying
Enabling people addicted to drugs & alcohol by giving them a place to live won’t solve the problem no matter how much money he invests in affordable housing.
Yep. This could be the generic mantra of all the wannabe a messiah politicians on the left (and there are a lot of them). Plus, giving money voluntarily isn't acceptable. It must be taken from you..
“ There’s plenty of money.
It’s just in the wrong hands”
DeBlasio
Libs have a Death Wish......
So now it is a bad thing to pay good salaries to your workers because they use those salaries in part to increase the demand for housing?
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For leftists, paying low salaries is bad. Now paying high salaries is bad. The bottom line is, Leftists have an obsession with controlling everything, which when they do, they promptly run it into the ground.
Expropriate the Expropriaters
Expropriate the Expropriaters
Plus, giving money voluntarily isn’t acceptable. It must be taken from you..
Sanders could help by donating two houses.
Well, hell's bells, Bernie, who put those on the table?
One snake calling another snake a snake.
Of COURSE ODB has to say *something*. I mean, how would it look if non-govt could even make a DENT, at low $$$, vs. any ‘issue’.
Just look what many localities have done re: soup-kitchens vs. donations during hunting season (that buck isn’t ‘govt approved’ food-stuffs).
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