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muriel_volestrangler

(105,821 posts)
Fri May 1, 2015, 06:13 PM May 2015

Scenes from the class war

“The United States is one of only eight countries where maternal mortality (death from complications of pregnancy or childbirth) is on the rise.”
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“The government is now spending less on health care than CBO had projected back in January 2010 — a projection that didn’t include any Affordable Care Act spending at all.”
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“Why do we never use the idea of property rights to protect the collective property of individual property owners against the wealthy? It’s not even a question we ask ourselves.”
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“Filers making between $40,000 and $50,000 pay almost 12 times as much in payroll taxes as in income taxes.”

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2015/04/30/scenes-from-the-class-war-4-30/

Plus many more from this round-up of a month or so's news in the increase of inequality.
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Scenes from the class war (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler May 2015 OP
Wait a minute! guillaumeb May 2015 #1
sarcasm tag missing? PowerToThePeople May 2015 #2
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