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.

Mar 10, 2020 · 2:36 PM UTC

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Your premise is flawed. Where does money come from currently? Where do taxes go currently? Now tell me again why I need to feed the beast you worship.
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It appears they've locked us out of the democratic systems via the corporate media & party apparatus. Maybe, Marianne, our power lies in 70% of the economy being based on consumer spending? Maybe we should form worker & consumer guilds to divest from abusive companies?
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If those tax cuts cause business owners to cut investment and employment, who gets hurt the most? The business owner or the poor person who lost their job and can't feed their family?
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@marwilliamson can you negotiate a peace treaty between the #YangGang and the Berners?
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Got ‘em with that 666th like 😈🤘😈 lol
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I agree a trickle-down economy is a con but great for keeping an aristocracy/oligarchy. A friendship-focused economy, on the other hand, is founded on the friendship needs of caring, listening, + valuing each other. Profits are shared. Democracy strengthened. Think Co-ops.
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Capitalism is producing more and more greed which then creates a class of greedy oligarchs.
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Illegals cost Americans 2.5 Billion dollars 💵 that’s a lot of money that should be going to real citizens. Many Americans suffer and are pushed the streets.
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Also it didn't help that 1 of the downsides, (and there were many upsides) of parts of the New Age Movement was the accusation that poor people simply weren't manifesting their full "potential" which came to be seen as a measurement of net worth in terms of $$$'s. I have vivid
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