PRIVILEGES = UNFAIR ADVANTAGES TO TOP 1% = RIGGED LAWS + RIGGED JUSTICE + RIGGED WEALTH
America’s SYSTEM gives too many ADVANTAGES to the 1% = The UNFAIR Distributional of PRIVILEGES and RULES And JUSTICE = RIGGED for 1%
Americans = See US economy as a vast casino of STACKED DECKS and LOADED DICE against Americans
Americans Know = MONEY = POWER to get MORE SPECIAL PRIVILEGES = RIG the GAME = EVEN MORE LOPSIDED WEALTH INEQUALITY
Americans Know = Today Capital Dominates Labor = GOP WRONG-HEADED GOAL!
Money = Unaccountable power to grant or deny GOV permission to Succeed = Deny Success.
NO Money = NO freedom to choose NEW IDEAS or NEW Options for Succeeding = TOP 1% have This
BIG STEP SOLUTION = Middle class and the poor share in ALL future growth. TAX POLICY = TAX CAPITAL AND WEALTH to STOP THE TRANSFER to the TOP 1%
BIG STEP SOLUTION = Get big money out of politics = Public Funding of Elections = DON’T STOP at ending “Citizens United” = At Least Public matching of small donors
BIG STEP SOLUTION = Every American is INSURED of a POVERTY LINE INCOME + Whatever they can EARN Honestly. = Massive LONG TERM STIMULUS = ENDS MOST NEED FOR FOOD STAMPS OR WELFARE CHECKS
Click for Daily Show Interview with Robert Reich
Click for Robert Reich Article on Distribution
A handful of Americans receive the biggest slices of the total national income
Most average hard working Americans receive smaller incomes.
Americans in polls = NO to pending Trans Pacific Trade (TPP) Deal
TPP = Cheaper goods and services from slave labor countries
TPP = Big gains to TOP 1% + CEOs
TPP = LOSS OF JOBS AND WEALTH for MOST AMERICANS + LOWER PAY Competing with slave labor
Americans in polls = NO to further tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.
Americans = VOTE YES to raise taxes on the rich and Corporations by REMOVING MOST OF THE14,OOO TAX LOOPHOLES
New Yorkers = VOTES YES to TAXING THE TOP 1% to pay for better schools = Elected Bill de Blasio, Progressive as mayor of NYC
GOP OLD SAW = RICH TRICKLE DOWN JOB CREATORS = DON’T TAX TOP 1% = Slower economic growth.
95% of the gains from growth continue to go to the top 1% since recovery of 2009
Arthur Brooks, president of American Enterprise Institute = NYT oped call Americans attitude envy or spite for wanting a BETTER DEAL for the 99%.
Americans are NOT envious of THE OTHER GUY = We simply WORK HARD to get what they want. = BUT Americans hate unfairness = A FAIR SHARE FOR THEIR WORK = America’s SYSTEM gives too many ADVANTAGES to the 1%. = RIGGED
Americans = See US economy as a vast casino of STACKED DECKS and LOADED DICE = Titans of Wall Street made unfathomable LOOT gambling with our money AGAINST the Benefits of their Clients and Average Americans + BAIL OUT the TITANS for their SCAMS that FAIL.
Millions of Americans = Still underwater and many unemployed
$TRILLION Wall Street SCAN ARTIST NEVER SEE COURT OR PRISON = Instead They are MAXING OUT AT THE TROUGH – more now than ever before. = Top hedge-fund managers pocketing $1+ Billion/Year + Stock market at ALL TIME HIGHS
Typical American’s home is worth less than before + Can’t save a thing.
CEOs = Incomes from SCAMS = 300 X Pay of Typical Worker who earning less and barely holding on.
2001 Gallup = 76% of Americans satisfied with opportunities = Get ahead by working hard
2014 POLL = 54% of Americans are satisfied = UNFAIRNESS caused that
Pew Poll = 14% DROP in Americans think you can get ahead by hard work
Americans Know = MONEY = POWER to get MORE SPECIAL PRIVILEGES = RIG the GAME = EVEN MORE LOPSIDED WEALTH INEQUALITY
Big Money = BUYING OUT DEMOCRACY = “Citizens United” = Our democracy is drowning in a POOL of SHIFTING PRIVILEGES to the TOP 1%
SMALL STEPS = Improving our schools + Make work pay raising MIN WAGE + expand Earned Income Tax Credit = Helpful.
BIG STEP = Middle class and the poor share in ALL future growth. TAX POLICY = TAX CAPITAL AND WEALTH to STOP THE TRANSFER to the TOP 1%
BIG STEP = Get big money out of politics = Public Funding of Elections = DON’T STOP at ending “Citizens United” = At Least Public matching of small donors
BIG STEP = Every American is INSURED of a POVERTY LINE INCOME + Whatever they can EARN Honestly. = Massive LONG TERM STIMULUS = Perhaps a Stock and Bond trust fund for every child at birth.
SIDE FACT: “Magic of compounded interest” = MASSIVE USURY BANKING LIE AGAINST HUMANITY
Americans = Demand a FAIR DEAL and BALANCED PLAYING FIELD