40 yrs ago America took a terrible turn, initiating a massive transfer of wealth into the hands of 1% of us. Through a reworking of tax laws to favor the already rich, union busting, deregulation & every other tool of oligarchy imaginable, we have economically tyrannized a nation

Jan 31, 2021 路 6:28 AM UTC

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Yes and don't forget this year Taxes for those making under $250K increase from that 2017 Trump Tax cut for the rich, so the GOP can blame Dems just before the midterms start. The level of pure Evil in our Government is astounding!
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I still think it鈥檚 possible to undo that damage and maybe turn into the best version of America we鈥檝e ever had. I鈥檓 not confident that it鈥檒l happen in my lifetime
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It鈥檚 actually always been this way in this country. It鈥檚 just that now the top 1% own an even more staggeringly overwhelming amount of the capital. It鈥檚 absolute criminality. Any person with a conscience is disgusted. It makes no sense and is immoral, inhumane.
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1/The essential must read on this shift in the economy and political culture: David Harvey. A Brief History of Neoliberalism (2005). And more recently, on how the effects of this economic shift have delegitamted democracy for the many and seems for
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The use of the word, "we" is inclusive and is well said. We are beginning to reverse these policies, but have so much further to go.
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If everyone would read Dr. Stephanie Kelton's book the Deficit Myth and learn that Federal Taxes do not Fund Spending you would be even more vocal about what is being done to us. #LearnMMT
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I don't seem to have acknowledged that
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40 years ago? Oh you meant to ad two zeros? Seriously though that wealth your talking about was taxes off the backs of my ancestors her in America. Cotton, Tobacco, Hemp,unpaid labor. So it was robbed from Indegenous people and then was robbed from the European evaders here. So..
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