2026-05-07

In the state of Nevada alone, Tesla is one of the corporations that ranks *highest* in Medicaid costs, which is another form of public assistance program. That’s on top of the $330 million they’ve already received in state public dollar tax incentives. rgj.com/story/news/money/bus…

The single largest form of theft in America is wage theft. $50 billion a year are stolen from American workers. If a billionaire amasses their wealth by underpaying their full-time workers so severely that they must rely on food assistance and government programs to survive, then no, that wealth was not earned by one individual - it was a wealth transfer subsidized by underpaid American workers and the public who get stuck with the bill for large corporations free-riding off our systems. The point is less about individual morality. It’s more about how our current economic reality of shattering inequality rewards screwing over workers and exploiting essential systems at scale. We’re talking monopoly power. Rent-seeking. Wage theft. Profiteering. Stock buybacks. Destabilizing housing mar…