telcoms Ajit Pai promised that killing net neutrality would spur network investment, but instead Comcast cut spending by 10.5% Cory Doctorow
Business Charter/Spectrum sold customers expensive home security systems, then killed the program and left them high and dry Cory Doctorow
corruption Trump pledged that Amazon would be forced to pay its taxes; thanks to his #taxscam, their profits went up and their taxes stayed $0.00 Cory Doctorow
corruption Trump's signature tax break for poor people went to subsidize a superyacht marina in Florida Cory Doctorow
guillotine watch When Trump's #TaxScam meant that affluent people no longer had to use the paid version of Turbotax, Turbotax started charging poor people, disabled people, students and elderly people Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Texas Instrument's post-#taxscam budget for financial engineering is $5B — triple its budget for actual engineering Cory Doctorow
trumpism AT&T promised it would create 7,000 jobs if Trump went through with its $3B tax-cut, but they cut 23,000 jobs instead Cory Doctorow
Business Amazon's 2018 profits: $11.2 billion; Amazon's 2018 IRS bill: negative $129 million Cory Doctorow
trumpism Ajit Pai killed Net Neutrality and Trump gave away a huge tax break; Verizon got billions and killed 10,000 jobs Cory Doctorow
Business Apple's world-beating financial engineering is teaching the corporate world how to exploit Trump's tax cuts Cory Doctorow
class war Disney heiress condemns Trump for lowering her taxes: vote out the Republicans on Nov 6! Cory Doctorow
trump Trump wants to hand a $100,000,000,000 tax cut to the super-rich, without Congressional approval Cory Doctorow
religion Republicans were so eager to pass the #TaxScam that they didn't notice they were taxing the churches they depend on Cory Doctorow
Business Amid wage stagnation, corporate leaders declare the end of annual raises triggered by increased profitability Cory Doctorow
class war Trump's sweetheart tax deal for economically useless financial engineering triggers a stock buyback bonanza Cory Doctorow
