The filthiest fact is that Congress wants to cut the food benefit to hungry Americans, almost half of them children, so that money can keep flowing to the top.
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The ongoing, current class war began under Reagan, who the GOP's sycophants have nominated for everything from a fifth head on Mt. Rushmore to having his know-nothing head memorialized on a coin. I vomit in my mouth a little whenever I fly in or out of "Reagan National" airport.
It probably began when he pushed "trickle down economics" on us, based on the laughable (and thoroughly disproven) "Laffer Curve", but a case could be made that it was when he began the ongoing destruction of unions by firing the striking air-traffic controllers. Maybe they're tied...
"Trickle down", called "voodoo economics" by the sire of Bush the dim, has been tried twice and it's failed MISERABLY both times, most recently lending a a helping hand to the worst recession in our nation's history, by cutting taxes on the wealthy (read "war profiteers" here and you won't be too far out of line) at the same time Cheney talked his smirking chimp of a boss into launching not one, but two, count 'em, two unfunded wars. (Aside, I still remember John Thune as a new Senator telling Tim Russert how "easy" it is to keep the budget balanced when fighting two unfunded wars: "Just take them off the books." This is what passes for GOP "leadership").
Make no mistake, the war continues to this day. Unless you make something on the order of a Bazillion dollars a year, it's a war on YOU. And if we don't work together to fight back, we will lose this war (if it hasn't already been lost).
Do you remember/know of the Overton Window? It's time to embrace "wealth redistribution" as what made America great, in the past.
I support a 90% tax rate for individual incomes over $1,000,000.00/yr. Steep inheritance tax on estates over $5,000,000.00, to stop the Walton-like handing down of power (like a monarchy) in this capitalist society.
You should, too.