Reply #23: A cosmetic change is all that the check-writers will allow [View All]

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For obvious reasons. The things that are most dangerous to ordinary Americans are foreign policy and the growing gap between rich and poor and concurrent elimination of the middle class.

All of that benefits large corporations, altering any of it would result in an immediate and significant reduction in revenue to them.

It is neither reasonable nor realistic to suppose that people will deliberately choose to have less money, especially when those are the very people who already have most of the money.

It is not unlike the famous argument about the minimum wage.

Whether the minimum wage is or is not raised 2 dollars over a period of 2 or 3 years is not really relevant to minimum wage earners in a market where an apartment costs 4 times the minimum wage.

It is, however, a great way for politicians to demonstrate their committment to the poor :)

By the same token, holding out the shiny bauble of gay marriage while continuing to fund Israel's Policy of Starvation, the Torture Lottery, and deploying US, Turkish and Israeli troops around the region to kill more Muslims as the already teeming throngs of poor back home are joined by the newly unemployed may be all the distraction needed for some, but the best one can say about its relevance is that the first gay domestic victims of the war will be able to await their fate in the home they shared with their late partner.