What’s Next?
CEOs in our midst and in our politics challenge liberal democracies: what’s next?
June 20
As America tunes into the right-wing assault on Israel’s future and the size of Saturday night protests in Tel Aviv, America can also use the opportunity to reflect on the future of Biden’s redistribution of wealth.
The ‘Trumpublican’ orchestrated corporate tax rate cuts will expire in 2025. The stakes for controlling America’s deficit, which rest in no small part on corporations paying for what they receive, are on the ballot in November.
If one thinks that this is hyperbolic-speak, explain why 80 of America’s richest CEOs attended a “roundtable” in DC June 12 — why these fortune hunters took time out to convene at the nation’s capital.
Was it to preserve social security and Obamacare?
Apparently, they think the stakes are high. They gathered to listen to what candidate Trump (and Biden) could deliver if elected in November. (1) They brought their collective political influence.
Robert Reich writes June 18 in Substack (2),
“The Business Roundtable is an association of more than 200 CEOs of America’s biggest corporations, their most powerful voice in Washington.
