Let me make this pellucidly clear
The architect of this entire mess is their beloved Ronald Reagan.
Government is not the problem.
Disciples like Joescum don’t even understand their own contradictions.
There is no society without proper education, healthcare (healthcare is a social good not a for profit industry), open spaces and safe infrastructure.
The rich must pay their taxes not use some of their gross wealth to buy politicians.
Fuck all ReTHUGs. They own this mess.
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Even if new campaign finance laws took money out of politics.
Why all the prevarication.
Instead of doing that (well some did) but most of them followed Chump around like he's the Republican Jesus. That's exactly what they did to Ronald Reagan - they made him the Republican Jesus! Reagan never created one thing, all he did was try to destroy it all. When his eight years were over, the New Deal was dead by Reagan's hand. America has never been the same since.
There are more of us then there are of them.
The ones that were easily distracted by Shiny things are finding out they bought fools' gold.
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WHICH IS WHY the reich Rich fear the IRS being "weaponized" by hiring enough people to handle the ENORMOUS returns and DOCs needed to audit those with money to burn and shadow companies to hide profits, bodies etc...
https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/the-case-for-a-robust-attack-on-the-tax-gap
The tax gap can be a major source of inequity. Today’s tax code contains two sets of rules: one for regular wage and salary workers who report virtually all the income they earn; and another for wealthy taxpayers, who are often able to avoid a large share of the taxes they owe. As Table 1 demonstrates, estimates from academic researchers suggest that more than $160 billion lost annually is from taxes that top 1 percent choose not to pay
ADD: 374 BILLION to that if we include the 9% below the top 1% or a total of 537 BILLION in reclaimed taxes from those profiting MOST off the rest of US.
$537,000,000,000 could PUNCH the National Debt right in the face..... approx.... $31,486,734,769,000
https://www.usdebtclock.org/
EVEN IF YOU BUY THE MEME that the top HALF or top 50% pay 97% of taxes....
That is BECAUSE the bottom 50% HAS ONLY 3% of the income.
SO THEY PAY TAXES on their 3% and the top 50% pays taxes on the 97% they collectively have.
BITCHING AT THE POOR gives you ZERO Cents. BUT the RICH gained $4 Trillion off the rest of US from 2000 to 2020.
Bottom 50% is PAYING THEIR SHARE. Top 1% is raking in TRILLIONS and sheltering their wealth from paying taxes.
I love your "Let me make this pellucidly clear" posts -- just trying to understand every last detail in this one!
I regard the repeated headline as a sort of whimsical hook (not pretentious) to catch your eye so you'll be sure to read the content within which is usually a matter of great import.
But...as always, you're entitled to your opinion. 
The one-siderism of Fox News, Limbaugh, Alex Jones, and all that shit is how we got to this point. Fox is playing a systematic part in the destruction of our education system and they're 100% responsible for getting fucking idiots like Boebert, Greene, Gaetz, Abbott, Desantis and Trump into office. It's hilarious watching Hannity and Pirro attempt to backtrack what they've created. Sorry guys, the cat's out of the bag. 
