In the 1970s the average American worker had good benefits, could own a home and a car, could take a yearly vacation & send their kids to college; plus one parent could stay home if they wanted. And then we began the trickle-down nightmare. #TaxTheRich
Bernie Sanders
 @BernieSanders
15 Apr 2021
Now is the time to think big, not small — that means restoring the corporate tax rate to 35%, cracking down on offshore tax shelters, and closing corporate tax loopholes. This would generate at least $2.3 TRILLION to invest in the long-neglected needs of the working class.

Apr 16, 2021 · 5:20 AM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
Oh good God. In the 1970s “average” American worker meant White. It’s easy to dream about the rose colored past without looking at the entire context.
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That was absolutely not true of the average worker
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Or we stop enabling them by bailouts and red tape laws...
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Average american middle class white worker
Replying to @marwilliamson
Black unemployment was 10% to 20% during the entire 1970s. Maybe, the white upper middle class you represent we're doing good but as Archie Bunker would say, " The lord might be smiling on the sheep but they still end up as lamb chops." Minorities have suffered forever.
Replying to @marwilliamson
You flooded the borders is what you did. and I am not just talking about grape pickers. Corporations lobby for more H1b visas, more "talent" aka competition with American workers. Supply and demand. Supply of workers goes up, demand goes down, pay goes down.
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No, then federal, state and local government spending became out of control
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Too sad that Marianne has gone on the communist path...
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LOL totally ignoring the real problem— inflation from out of control government spending and central banking quantitative easing.
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Things were good for the average white American worker. Those times were good for us. We need to make times like those good for everyone, only with fewer station wagons. 1974 soul music revival anyone?
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