Funny how progressive incomes is good for capitalism, but progressive taxes is so unfair to it, isn't it?
Yes they can. They're essantially been doing that since 1969. That's when the middle class started losing purcasing power one quintile of workers at a time. It reaching up into the upper half of the third quintile by now so people are finally waking up to it.
Your faith in Obama ability to turn the ship if state around exceeds mine considerably.
I think the PLAN is to crash and burn not only the American government and the state goverments, but the American middle class too.
Why?
We're too uppity.
We imagine oursevles free men with rights, INCLUDING the right to a piece of the economic pie that we fucking bake for the superwealthy.
Hence the money for investment has moved offshore, while the UNFAIR TRADE POLICIES are sold to us as something good for the economy.
Atlas isn't shrugging, folks, Atlas is selling America out.