How the Big Beautiful Bill Will Transfer Trillions From Workers to Wall Street
Republicans are about to supercharge the gap between worker and CEO pay.
The 2017 tax cuts enriched Wall Street and CEOs, who spent billions on stock buybacks. Workers got nothing.
Now, corporations are posed for an even bigger windfall in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.
Correction: 3:36 Sarah Anderson is the director of the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. X: @SarahDAnderson1
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@geisterfer
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
This is what happens when you vote for Republicans. Republicans were the ones that allowed stock buy backs and continue cutting taxes for the wealthy.
@jerrrrrrrryyyyy
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
Funny how every bad thing in America always circles back to Reagan 🤦♂
@YolandaAguilar-f7p
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
Wake-up morons 💯💯💯
@MMECorbett
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
I work at Lowe's and I make $15.96 an hour. Have worked for them off and on since.2011. Started at $11.90.
@crutmauler1643
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
some losers are jealous because they are too dumb to make as much money as their boss.. awwww. Let's have a collective pity party for the losers and feel mad at everyone who makes more money than us.
What a bunch of fuckin losers.
@ppss.6302
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
Ohio is a trumpist cesspool for a reason
@sierraalice8072
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
Stocks should have a property tax
@mrfavorovermylifewhite7194
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
Moral of the story: become the CEO and if you don’t like the wages at your job, your job is not a prison. You can always leave
@RodneySlinger
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
Is it time for the poor to eat the rich?
@MrAllhalebreaksloose
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
We will forever vote for politicians in opposition of our our interests for those of corporations and the wealthiest citizens. We should not be dependent upon the whimsical altruism of billionaires. We are doomed.
@sammccool5480
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
We all just need to walk out. Screw them. It'll be tough stock up on groceries. Tell all your fellow workers to do the same and everybody just not show up. After about a week, they're going to panic. They can't suck us dry if we're not there.
@lloydholland9522
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
You can trace it back to the Republicans Ronald Reagan George HW Bush George w bush Donald Trump stop and then skip 2 Donald Trump again Nixon as well but for sure when Ronald Reagan fired the air traffic controllers the Republican party went like mad crazy people telling all the people especially in the south of the unions are stealing from you and on and on and on and on and on over and now over half the country are getting crap wages and no unions at all you start speaking unions in a right-to-work state and it gets back to the big guys in the offices they're going to try to figure out a way to get rid of your ass and way quicker than they hired you
@asdfgsfdhawsrfhah
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
CEOS make millions and pay their workers nothing. Then the government has to subsidize all the workers because they can't afford to live.
@mooman1903
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
RUBIO SHOULD BE DIRECTING POLICY
@mooman1903
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
PURE THEFT TRUMP !
@mooman1903
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
IT,S WRONG ON EVERY LEVEL !
DISGUSTING HOW THIS EXISTS
@mooman1903
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
MORE THEY MAKE
GREED
DICTATES MORE THEY TAKE
@mooman1903
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
OVERPAID EXECUTIVES ARE TGE PRIBKEM
WONDER WHY WORK ETHUCS ARE WANING
@SgtJoeSmith
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
So you keep complaining about companies repaying loans?
@SgtJoeSmith
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
Yet I cant find landscapers at $100 an hour
@SgtJoeSmith
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
I get a 5 cent a year dividend! I cant wait to buy a yaught in a million years after i break even on $400 share
@SgtJoeSmith
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
What happened? Companies went from 20 employees to 20 million
@SgtJoeSmith
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
Yet for 25 years my mom rather work as cashiere at Lowes instead a million dollars a year for me. Explain that
@Leo-Elijah
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
Bullish or bearish, AI stocks will still dominate 2025, even beyond. Why I prefer NVIDIA is that they are better placed to maintain long-term growth potential, and provide a platform for other AI companies. I know someone who has made more than 200% from NVIDIA. I'll also take these other recommendations you made.
@marklambard2062
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
Only showing a Black CEO out of thousands white CEOs😅😅
@ZippingLake
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
Tariffs are import taxes and we pay them. That’s essentially how the wealth will be transferred back to the rich.
It’s past time to tax the rich at 90%. They don’t do anything but further divide us and make us work longer for less money.
@MchopaGroup
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
Trump isnt the problem ,its automation , AI is singlehandedly killing off maby jobs , and though i disagree with trump on maaany things ,he is right ,govt overeach is out of control , the govt was meant to be policy driver not the leader with too many beaureacracies ,anyone whose run a biz would tell you how many laws you adhere to just to sell something ,its nuts . The libs should quit with the hysteria,they created a monstrous system , breaking it down was going to be difficult ,and yes you guessed it ,i voted Obama twice
@dyingembers-u2g
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
TERM LIMITS AGE LIMITS AND WEALTH LIMITS
@zainisdabomb
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
economically illiterate commies
@Tiersmoke92555
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
"i didn't vote” WTF???
@Tiersmoke92555
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
When Martin Luther King was working on the poor people campaign???
@hughjass-pz3cp
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
the russians have a word for it, oligarchs.
@Cameojoe
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
They think the CEO of Lowes makes 3X what a store employee makes? JFC, its no wonder Trump & the GOP really love the poorly educated…
@vrotties
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
Slimy
@dennislee7312
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
CEOs make too much? Limit their pay? What does that have to do with stock buy back? Why not just end stock buy back? Isn't that easier and… more logical to do? It sounds like we need laws that limit how much salary can be paid out in stocks or regulate the stock buy back option and make it so that it can only be done in very limited cases.
How much assets and product/services are these CEOs managing? These CEOs that are paid millions are usually managing hundred of millions worth of assets/personnel if not billions. If you were the owner of a large company and you hired someone to manage over hundreds of millions worth of assets, are you going to pay this person $200,000? Does this make sense to you?
We should all be able to agree that these CEO positions are not anything like a regular job like a barista or a plumber, right? We should be above this by now, right? Everyone can recognize this, right? Why do people keep getting side tracked by this ridiculous point that has no relevance on anything. Or maybe that is the point? Just end the stock buy back stupid.
@William-b5k
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
Well presented,all correct and exactly what happened and will continue to happen except The World is now changing the players heads of state and businesses are dealing with a revolution a wealth and power struggle where wealth may not be able to sustain its power a house of cards that is collapsing as you read this today.Humanity worldwide has been paying the price from pay to life style while a few,the one half of one per cent bullied total control even of their countries,Trump Putin others.But the wealth is drying up and the economy is crashing not for them but for workers and the poorest who are being crushed so what will change nothing why? Because lions eat sheep..and your sheep..😅
@clarkmay4819
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 am
We live in a society of ignorance and indifference. That's how it keeps happening over and over again.
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