Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says America's inequality problem has gotten out of control, and he's promising to fix it

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Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz discussed America's inequality issues with Business Insider's Kate Taylor, promising the wealth gap would be one of his top concerns if he runs for office.

problem in a recent interview with the former Starbucks CEO, he did not provide specific plans for a solution. However, he assured Taylor the issue is one of his top concerns.

"If I run for president and am fortunate to win, what I can promise you is I will address the issues of inequality in many ways, because I have great empathy and compassion, because I was one of those people once in my life," Schultz told Business Insider."And I'm in a unique position of having lived on both ends of the spectrum.".

Schultz went on to note that he believes the wealthy should be paying more in taxes and that the corporate tax rate should be higher.financial success in his adult life. "I still have the scars, the vulnerability, the shame, the insecurity of growing up in a family where my parents couldn't afford the $96-a-month rent for the apartment in the projects," Schultz said."That just never left me — like all of us, my childhood experiences have defined me.

 

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Start by making their coffee prices less like airport croissants! AOCisanidiot

Anybody who says they as one person can fix something like inequality is only trying to sell you their version of oppression!

Yes, promise free coffee for all so the nation can become more productive. It will boost our GDP

This idea or notion that some white man...in 2019...will wake up one day and do right by God...is pure bullshit! John Brown and Lincoln died over 100 years ago.

Oh yea, what the hell do you care selling a cup of coffee for five dollars or what ever it is. Why don't you make t more equal by reducing you prices. You guys are so full of crap it's laughable.

Really!

Having billionaires running the country is not a safe bet any longer. Look at where we are today financially as a country. Low wages, no healthcare, no education, unions being pushed out and worst of all, Privatizing the government. Not a good scenario. Get money out of politics.

Howard Schultz is promising to fix it with platitudes and clichés, no less.

I read the first few sentences and decided the article was worthless. ' It's one of my top issues!', So you have a plan?........ ' I assure you I will fix it and it's a top issue!' Hard pass...

A promise is one thing, showing data is another, political revving up the crowd moments is lame nowadays, the future wants actual results

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😂😂😂yes because CAPITALIST CORPORATISTS know how to cheat yet nothing about social liberty & justice. Let’s keep Capitalist running businesses REGULATED BY SOCIALISTS🇷🇺🤮

Give up your billions

No one will fix the peoples good or bad only the peoples itself .

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Could he lower the price of a coffee?

A billionaire who sits upon a massive pile of undeserved wealth and doesn’t pay his fair share of taxes is going to fix America’s inequality problem? Now that is a great AprilFoolsDay joke.

What about AndrewYang

FREE COFFEE TO REPUBLICANS WOULD BE A GREAT START!!!

The last guy promised to fix it, did the opposite.

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