JD Vance on Corporations

ESG is a massive racket at the expense of workers

[Investopedia.com definition: "ESG investing is used to screen investments based on corporate policies and to encourage companies to act responsibly. ESG investing refers to how companies score on responsibility metrics and standards for potential investments. Environmental criteria gauge how a company safeguards the environment. Social criteria examine how it manages relationships with employees, suppliers, customers, and communities. Governance measures a company’s leadership, executive pay, audits, internal controls, and shareholder rights.

Stop favoring multinationals; tax exporting jobs

My fellow Republicans love to talk about tax cuts. By all means, let's cut the taxes of the companies that invest in our country. But we're going to raise taxes on companies that ship jobs overseas and use their money to fund anti-American radical movements. If these companies are going to wage war on America, it's time America wages war on them.

2017: Founded venture-capital firm to help Midwest startups

The future of Vance's company, meanwhile, may be threatened by his decision to run for the Senate. Only a year after launching Narya, Vance took a leave of absence from the firm to pursue his political ambitions. Now the firm, based in Cincinnati, is being run by one of his partners from Darien, Connecticut -- a bastion of the kind of wealthy coastal elites that Vance frequently scorns as a full-throated ally of Donald Trump.

Woke capital directly connected to plundering of society

Downtowns fail when not enough consumers have jobs

Efforts to reinvent downtown Middletown always struck me as futile. People didn't leave because our downtown lacked trendy cultural amenities. The trendy cultural amenities left because there weren't enough consumers in Middletown to support them.

And why weren't there enough well-paying consumers? Because there weren't enough jobs to employ those consumers. Downtown Middletown's struggles were a symptom of everything else happening to Middletown's people, especially the collapsing importance of Armco Kawasaki Steel [the main industry in Middletown].

Deregulation doesn't address economic & social crisis

Trump's candidacy is music to their ears. He criticizes the factories shipping jobs overseas. His apocalyptic tone matches their lived experiences on the ground. He seems to love to annoy the elites, which is something a lot of people wish they could do but can't because they lack a platform.