55 corporations paying no federal tax last year spent $450 million on lobbying and campaigns

[Hoyt]

3. If those companies had paid the $10B, that would have covered less than 5 days

of our normal deficit in recent years.

We are going to have to tax a lot of rich folks AND middle class people to get all the stuff we want— healthcare, education, childcare, bolstering Social Security, deficit and debt reduction, jobs, infrastructure, climate, and more. But there is not a politician in America with the guts to say it, knowing they’ll lose an election.