Mitch and the 1% profit off consumer's pain

According to an Accountable.US report three Republican senators and fifteen members of the House GOP caucus have raked in at least $5,709,425 from corporations that have used inflation as a pretext for jacking up prices. Corporate profits were the highest they were last year, and you have the Republican caucus in the Senate and the House basically trying to give them a pass," said Tony Carrk, Executive Director of Accountable.US.

Chief among Corporate America's political guardians is Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who last year raked in $1.24 million from industry behemoths like Walmart, Kroger, Chevron, Johnson & Johnson, and Ford. Many of McConnell's own corporate benefactors, including Kroger and J&J, have openly bragged about hiking prices in investor calls, celebrating inflation as a unique opportunity to pass along costs to their customers. In a similar vein, J&J CEO Joaquin Duato reportedly told investors that the need to "address suffering and death" amid the pandemic should be a sign of "optimism" and "opportunity," suggesting that the company's price increases were driven by an impulse to expand profit margins.

GOP response: But - But - But Hunters laptop...w-w-what about Hunters laptop!? 😲


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mitch-mcconnell-leads-republicans-in-profiting-off-of-corporate-price-hikes/ar-AAW1OCh?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=96e85810973f4711b24ab9ace313507d

@mchill said
According to an Accountable.US report three Republican senators and fifteen members of the House GOP caucus have raked in at least $5,709,425 from corporations that have used inflation as a pretext for jacking up prices. Corporate profits were the highest they were last year, and you have the Republican caucus in the Senate and the House basically trying to give them a pass," ...[text shortened]... -off-of-corporate-price-hikes/ar-AAW1OCh?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=96e85810973f4711b24ab9ace313507d

@mchill said
According to an Accountable.US report three Republican senators and fifteen members of the House GOP caucus have raked in at least $5,709,425 from corporations that have used inflation as a pretext for jacking up prices. Corporate profits were the highest they were last year, and you have the Republican caucus in the Senate and the House basically trying to give them a pass," ...[text shortened]... -off-of-corporate-price-hikes/ar-AAW1OCh?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=96e85810973f4711b24ab9ace313507d

@wildgrass said
The only reason things like what Hunter did aren't illegal is because all of the people (left right and center) making the laws are doing the same thing.

@jimm619 said
Money buys influence....
Nothing new....
Campaign contribution or bribe?
Lobbyist or racketeer?
Gotta' get money outta' politics,
simple as that.