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> Patrick Soon-Shiong, the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times, slammed Bass in an X post claiming the mayor slashed the Los Angeles Fire Department’s bu
by UncleOxidant 2y ago
> Patrick Soon-Shiong, the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times, slammed Bass in an X post claiming the mayor slashed the Los Angeles Fire Department’s budget, despite the high risk of wildfires in the region, and raised questions about reports that some fire hydrants in the Pacific Palisades had run dry.
It's kind of rich that a local billionaire would complain about this. I'm going to guess that the $23M was cut due to budget shortfalls. Maybe if the billionaires and multi-millionaires in the area were willing to pay their fair share that wouldn't have happened.
- dmitrygr 2y ago[flagged]
- baggy_trough 2y ago"fair share" is always defined as more than they pay now, I've noticed.
- bdangubic 2y agolol exactly
- dgfitz 2y agoSeems like he knows his way around the financial system: https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/politico-uncovers-more-funding-indiscretions-patrick-soon-shiong https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/politico-uncovers-more...
- sahila 2y agoIs your opinion that extremely wealthy don't try to reduce their tax share as much as possible, either through clever accounting on their current year taxes or by influencing politicians/policies to lower their taxes directly? Why do most middle class earners pay more than their millionaire and billionaire counterparts as a percentage? Sure you might say W2 tax rate is higher than capital gains, but why is that the case?
- baggy_trough 2y agoOf course they do, same as everyone else. The rich pay the vast majority of taxes and get next to nothing for it.
- sahila 2y agoPlease explain how they get next to nothing? We have a pretty damn functional society - police, firemen, judges, law and order, a military, roads, and the ability for them to do business and get richer. Society entails that those able to provide more, so that's just part of it. We ask able bodied men to most serve on the front lines of our military, mothers most often play the role of raising our youth, we are have a role to play and in return we get live petty peacefully. Do you have a better model?
- drawkward 2y agoThey certainly hoard more than their "fair share" of wealth.
- baggy_trough 2y agoNothing certain about that.
- drawkward 2y ago100% certain that no human deserves to be a billion times wealthier than the least wealthy human.
- baggy_trough 2y agoI don't know why you think that.
- drawkward 2y agobecause i am a human who sees the inherent value of all humanity, divorced from their wealth. i see wealth hoarding as an addiction, a sickness, and a danger to others.
- baggy_trough 2y agoInherit value has nothing to do with wealth, and billionaires are not hoarding.
- mmooss 2y agoSoon-Shiong has aligned with Trump, and is openly forcing LA Times journalists to serve his interests. Usually a major newspaper owner would try to avoid the appearance of bias or of undermining the objectivity of the news. https://www.thewrap.com/la-times-case-against-trump-kamala-endorsement-canceled/ https://www.thewrap.com/la-times-case-against-trump-kamala-e... https://www.npr.org/2024/10/24/nx-s1-5163293/la-times-editor-resigns-trump-msnbc-washington-post https://www.npr.org/2024/10/24/nx-s1-5163293/la-times-editor... https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/18/la-times-patrick-soon-shiong-trump https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/18/la-times-patri...