This is it in a nutshell. And none of it came out of nowhere. It’s the result of specific economic policies, particularly tax policies, designed to create and maintain the new American status quo.
While millionaires and billionaires own 79.2% of all wealth in our country, the bottom half of Americans own just 1.5% of our nation's wealth. Justice Brandeis was right: "We can have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."

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Interestingly, it started in 1975 after Congressman Wilbur Mills, the Way & Means Commissioner, was caught in a sex scandal & forced out - opening the office to a new era of lobbyist influence. congressionalresearch.org/In…
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Bernies a millionaire.......
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