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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAt a time of massive wealth and income inequality, we can no longer tolerate
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WarGamer
(12,436 posts)FWIW... that's $538k/year to be in the top 1%
leftstreet
(36,106 posts)Irish_Dem
(46,918 posts)Dems trying to do so face an uphill battle.
Why?
1. Racism. White people don't want to give POC a penny.
2. Americans are puritans at heart. Happiness is bad, suffering and misery are good.
3. The wealthy see all US resources as theirs and theirs alone. They aren't about to share.
Uncle Joe
(58,349 posts)see your third point; they having by far the most financial power largely shaping and/or intensifying the first two.
Irish_Dem
(46,918 posts)It always gets back to the American oligarchs.
a kennedy
(29,647 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)if he could undo his role in 2016, and the enormous gift that was to the wealthy, he would. That is truly to be grateful for.
But with more extremely critical, perhaps last-ever elections coming up, I wish he would speak out and help lead those who might repeat their mistakes away from the cliff. Giant wealth inequality hurts everyone, but they've seen nothing like the pain to come if we let government of, by and for the people end.
soryang
(3,299 posts)Avoidance has been a whole lot more than 163 billion.
JoeOtterbein
(7,700 posts)Thanks for posting Uncle Joe!