The problem isn’t that people can create wealth; the problem is that not ENOUGH people can create wealth now due to economic circumstances that keep them limited to survival mode. An honorable person doesn’t want to create wealth at the expense of other people having a chance to.
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When a wealthy person gets a tax cut at the expense of a poor person’s child getting good food or a proper education, that’s not healthy capitalism or healthy governance. It’s time to stop the trickle-down economic canard that has damaged so many people & corroded our democracy.

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#RepairAmericaMovement The time has come to unapologetically claim what has belonged to us all along. “We have been trained in America over the past few decades to expect too little... to say ‘pretty please’ about things that should be the right of every American.”
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Healthy capitalism or socialism is the key. Time to stop beating each other over systems and realize either is utterly corruptible and they have both been. What's good and just for people struggling the most is what's critical and what is doable.
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Tax cuts = Jobs = Food and Education for the poor.
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@marwilliamson wondering if you studied modern monetary theory? @StephanieKelton has a very good book called “the deficit myth” that’s just coming out. I highly recommend it! It shows how we should really look at the economy and spending for the poor!
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Via @KosmosJournal '#wetiko. We believe understanding this idea offers a powerful way of understanding the deepest roots of our current global #polycrisis.' kosmosjournal.org/article/se… ⌛️ #SustainableProsperityAndSolidarity @thrivability @ReachScale @TheWorldSummit1 @idealist

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By Alnoor Ladha What if we told you that humanity is being driven to the brink of extinction by an illness? That all the poverty, the climate devastation, the perpetual war, and consumption fetishism...

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They are earning all the profits off of our labor, gaining greater tax cuts, denying climate change, and preventing us from getting universal healthcare? @HispanicCaucus
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Yes people are still so party identitied they continue to vote against their own interests.
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But "trickle down" is OK if the trickle starts with the Federal Government? (BTW: this is the reason most socialist states morph into autocracies. A powerful centralized Gov't controlling who gets what is essential to creating a submissive populace)
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Exactly!
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Are you saying no subsidies for electric cars or rooftop solar panels?
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