1/ The reason extreme income inequality is so viscerally repulsive to me is because I鈥檓 old enough to remember the time - before 1980 - when it wasn鈥檛 this way. It all started with the Reagan tax cuts and Reaganomics in 1980.
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I love the beginning of that one #MichaelMoore movie where the voiceover talks about how much nostalgia middle America has for the 50s and then the statistics roll: highest tax rate on the wealthy paying 4 GI Bill, jobs building hiways, cheap public colleges, hi quality schools
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Replying to @snicholsblog
Exactly!

Jan 4, 2021 路 6:21 AM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
there鈥檚 ample historical evidence that white nationalism could not rise if we had less income inequality & a government where our taxes were going to the real things we all need: schools, healthcare, clean air, water, habitat鈥攚e need a vibrant democracy & civil rts to get there
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