Intel Brags of $152 Billion in Stock Buybacks Over Last 35 Years. So Why Does It Need an $8 Billion Subsidy? | Common Dreams
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What’s to stop the chip-making giant from shoveling taxpayer grants into more stock buybacks?
  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
    30·
    2 months ago

    Every two years the US votes for capitalists, then capitalist things happen, and people clutch their pearls as if this isn’t precisely what they voted for.

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 months ago

      No, that’s ridiculous. Americans have a first past the post, winner take all, voting system. And we have an electoral college.

      This means that Americans never vote FOR president. Then only ever vote AGAINST who they hate most of the two real candidates.