Skull Pilot
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Government has given the richest 1% of citizens a ten-percent increase of total national income (not wealth, sorry) since 1979. Each of the five population quintiles have sacrificed, on average, 2% of their income over the last 40 years for the richest one percent of Americans.The richest 1% of Americans have increased their "fair" share of national wealth by ten percent since 1979.
They accomplished this feat primarily by bribing Republicans AND Democrats to write favorable tax policy.
Are they expecting too much from government?
Or not enough?
Government is NOT giving them money. They are merely being allowed to keep more of what is theirs.
Republicans AND Democrats have lowered tax rates and generously provided other tax incentives to ship US jobs to China and Mexico. This has decimated the blue-collar middle class across this country.
The richest 1% have not earned their bigger slice of the pie.
They have bribed corrupt politicians to give it to them.
A Simple Look...
Mother Jones, really?