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The reason why is simple. They have all the money. They rigged the game the past forty years. Many of them spend millions of dollars fighting against moving away from oil and coal. Many of them are greedy land developers. They fought against regulations on land development. They wanted to build anywhere they pleased. Fuck them, make them pay.
I am going to laugh my ass off watching Trump and the republicans try to persuade people we have to give giant tax cuts to the rich and corporations as we spend hundreds of billions of dollars repairing Texas and Florida.
clu
(494 posts)every generation or so to reset debt. we are well overdue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_(biblical)
edit: copy paste the full (mangled) link and the first paragraph from wiki states:
The Jubilee (Hebrew: יובל? yūḇāl; Yiddish: yoyvl) year is the year at the end of seven cycles of shmita (Sabbatical years), and according to Biblical regulations had a special impact on the ownership and management of land in the Land of Israel; there is some debate whether it was the 49th year (the last year of seven sabbatical cycles, referred to as the Sabbath's Sabbath), or whether it was the following (50th) year. Jubilee deals largely with land, property, and property rights. According to Leviticus, slaves and prisoners would be freed, debts would be forgiven, and the mercies of God would be particularly manifest. Leviticus 25:8-13 states:
DarthDem
(5,253 posts)That one doesn't really explain the context of your reference and I'd like to know more.
cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)was a theme in abolitionist song and literature. Most famous was Henry Clay Work's "Kingdom Coming":
He used a lot of minstrel-show-type argot in the lyrics, which have been cleaned up in this recording. And which probably accounts for the fact that it was not a very popular song. It has a catchy tune, though, and appears in several movies, including in the background in Meet Me In St. Louis.
DarthDem
(5,253 posts)No state income tax in either place, for obvious reasons, making the need for a federal bailout even more acute.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Meanwhile, got to cut taxes on the wealthy.