1/ The reason extreme income inequality is so viscerally repulsive to me is because I’m old enough to remember the time - before 1980 - when it wasn’t this way. It all started with the Reagan tax cuts and Reaganomics in 1980.

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2/ Example: Walmart corporation made $16.4B in profits in 2011 yet pays its employees minimum wage. The family has $100B, more than bottom 40% of all Americans. Unjust economic policies made this possible, and no one no one no one should be okay with it. #TaxTheRich
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Sorry Marianne. Right now we are focused on saving our country from an orange man in the Whitehouse who is trying to stage a coup.
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Charles Ferguson’s brilliant book “Predator Nation” does a terrific job identifying how financial deregulation, beginning under Reagan, also helped fuel income/wealth disparity.
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It was always this way for someone, somewhere. And therein lies the problem.
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I do happy you said that. It’s a hard truth for some people to process.