Tracking the exact route your money takes to replace you.
Politicians insist that giving tax breaks to billionaires will eventually "trickle down" to your paycheck. The math says otherwise. Click on the items below to reveal the "Dine & Dash" receipt left behind by the billionaire class.
GUEST: THE ELITE CLASS
Date: Today | Server: The U.S. Taxpayer
Appetizer: The OBBBA Tax Windfall$0.00 Paid
The Reality Check: Thanks to aggressive accounting loopholes and massive corporate tax cuts, 88 major U.S. corporations paid exactly $0 in federal income taxes last year, despite generating over $105 billion in domestic profits. You paid more in income tax last year than dozens of multinational conglomerates combined.
Main Course: Stock Buyback FeastShareholder Value +80%
The Reality Check: When corporations save billions on taxes, they don't give you a raise. Historically, 80% of these tax windfalls are diverted directly into stock buybacks to artificially inflate the CEO's bonus. The bottom 90% of workers receive exactly 0% of the wage gains from these corporate cuts.
Dessert: The AI Automation SuiteYour Job
The Reality Check: Corporations are taking the money you handed them through tax breaks and using it to fund the massive data centers required to automate your job away. This technological displacement has pushed the "real" underemployment rate (U-6) to 8.4%, resulting in over 165,000 global tech layoffs as companies pivot to AI. You are literally funding your own replacement.
DEBT ADDED:$0
(Includes interest and sovereign crowd-out fees. Estimated to reduce per-capita income by $4,400 long-term.)