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Xyzse

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3. This is missing one thing for me.

Reply to Scuba (Original post)

Tue Oct 1, 2013, 10:10 AM

Oct 2013

Huge reason we are in this rut is because of our tax system and the way the rich.
Particularly those making above 8 figures and corporations don't pay their fair share in taxes.

Next part is that, that money is not circulating around the broader economy. It gets siphoned off, and it is mostly horded, and a lot of the time it is just used to buy out their competition, while also moving their operations outside of the US. That just takes away even more jobs.

Otherwise, yeah, make sure that they do everything to create jobs, even if it is public sector work.

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