Hunter Biden’s Corruption Is a Symptom of Grotesque Inequality
Hunter Biden’s Corruption Is a Symptom of Grotesque Inequality
Hunter Biden, the president’s problematic son, has finally been indicted for his years of tax evasion. Only in an egregiously unequal society like ours do the children of the rich and powerful get away with corruption for as long as Hunter Biden has.
Now do Jared Kushner.
This Kremlin propaganda outlet only cares about Jared Kushner when they're criticizing Israel.
It would be amazing that they've covered private citizen Hunter Biden more than they covered Trump Admin official Jared Kushner if I were a credulous enough sucker to actually believe they were a good-faith progressive publication.
Insanely critical of Russia:
The Russian capitalist and managerial class was created out of a certain kind of people: the bureaucratically connected criminal vultures who fed on economic destruction.
Also:
https://jacobin.com/2018/12/tony-wood-russia-putin-cold-war
https://jacobin.com/2023/09/russia-azat-miftakhov-political-repression-putin
Hunter Biden isn't relevant to anything. He's a nobody.
You don't want your 1.4 million dollars back? I mean I care about tax evasion especially from the rich.
You don't want your 1.4 million dollars back?
He has since paid his back taxes, so this isn't a valid argument.
"In the year after he disclosed a federal investigation into his “tax affairs” in late 2020, President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, paid off a significant tax liability, even as a grand jury continued to gather evidence in a wide-ranging examination of his international business dealings, according to people familiar with the case.
Mr. Biden’s failure to pay all his taxes has been a focus of the ongoing Justice Department investigation. While wiping out his liability does not preclude criminal charges against him, the payment could make it harder for prosecutors to win a conviction or a long sentence for tax-related offenses, according to tax law experts, since juries and judges tend to be more sympathetic to defendants who have paid their bills."
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/us/politics/hunter-biden-tax-bill-investigation.html
Hunter Biden, the president’s problematic son, has finally been indicted for his years of tax evasion. Only in an egregiously unequal society like ours do the children of the rich and powerful get away with corruption for as long as Hunter Biden has.
I guess my old coworker who made $35k a year and evaded their taxes for more than 30yrs was just lying.
Fuck off with this "OnLy ThE rIcH CaN eVaDe TaXeS." Lots of people do it without getting audited. There's plenty of reasons to be pissed off about the two tiers of justice, but this Hunter Biden angle is just ignorant and smacks of Republicans clutching their pearls as they try to build public momentum for their impeachment bullshit.
It's going to be a major election issue for Republicans like it or not, do you give them that by pretending it's not a thing?
Holy shit, I bailed on Jacobin Mag when the Ukraine War started and they cried "Both sides!" on every other piece, but this is a new low.
Hope you hate it <3 I love sharing Jacobin cause they generate a lot of interaction and agitate people's status quo notions. Marxist view of Russia is like that, mistaken for "both sides" analysis (which breaks American's brains) cause they don't understand the materialist view of anything. Blame lack of education and their shitty news media for that. Anyway enjoy.
Someone make a meme about lemmy users believing they’re on the left.
There's plenty of memes about Americans who think the Democrats are in any way left, or that Americans think they can be on the left in their current political arrangement. The left wing of neoliberalism is to be a centrist liberal. Most of them are uneducated and fed notions of what a good person is from celebrities and corporate branding.
Peal clutching over Hunter... to think a Marxist would say his name and reflect the issue back on the right?! Almost all the criticism I get over this is that it's wrong to mention Hunter in a news article, what a joke these people are they can't respond to the right's insanity and have to hide the issue. Every day Trump victory seems more and more likely, this is just like 2016 but none of them learn.
I've never seen an OP get so thoroughly trounced in the comments. I guess this wasn't the right sub for spreading fud, 🤔..
Eh I posted this for a laugh to get this exact response. American's will cry about how issues like these aren't relevant as Trump wins over catering to them and have nothing to say in response. They'll blame people like me who say they need to not bury their head in the sand rather than themselves and their party for it's failures. When fascism came to Germany all the citizens shared collective blame for it to some degree, so it will be for Americans.
Thought this would generate spicy comments. Unfortunately this will me a major election issue propped up by the right, but Democrats are unwilling to recognize it even happening and saying it doesn't matter which is going to do far more harm than good. Most don't even know Biden's own Justice Department is the one who brought these charges. Explaining away tax evasion for Hunter but not Trump is exactly the hypocrisy the GOP needs to point to... don't give them that.
Explaining away tax evasion for Hunter but not Trump is exactly the hypocrisy the GOP needs to point to... don't give them that.
I haven't heard anyone do this, honestly. Most people I've encountered say, "Then prosecute him." People on the left don't care, though, because it's tax evasion, not a human rights violation. This doesn't need to be plastered on news outlets like something novel. In the grand scheme, everybody should pay their fair share of taxes, but Hunter isn't some canary in the coal mine. We've known the canary has been dead for decades.
Republicans will glom onto anything they can pretend is red meat for their base. It doesn't matter what facts we bring to the table, because they've reinvented what "facts" and "reality" are for their supporters. Engagement is their currency, because it implies legitimacy, and we shouldn't give them that.
People on the "left" (ie liberals mostly) don't care because they desperately don't want the Republicans to run with this as an election issue, however that isn't a choice that's on the table this will be an election issue. These people care very much about tax evasion when it's Republicans or not electorally relevant. Unfortunately the treatment to bury this issue from Democrat supporters will only help the GOP glom it up further and give them a perfect example of hypocrisy. The actual left in this case here, providing a reasoned response, that hey the kids of political elites are granted what normal people aren't, Democrats hate that because they don't want this to exist, but head in sand only does more harm because the GOP will happily use this to their advantage.