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In reply to the discussion: The Trillion Dollare Money Pump for the 1% [View all]indepat
(20,899 posts)the income and wealth of the uber-wealthy and the income of large, profitable corporations to equitable taxation: the higher the income generally, the lower its taxation. This is a virulently right-wing ideology and Democrats have almost fully gotten on board. The meme that America is the best place in the world to live is wholly false imo, as America, having fallen to or near the bottom in all quality-of-life ranking factors among industrialized nations of the world, testifies: it is perhaps the best place in the world for the oligarchs to operate and for the uber-wealthy, who can live in gated/walled-in fortresses if they choose, to live. Of course most Republicans have pledged their allegiance to Grover Norquist not the raise taxes and are demanding social security and Medicare benefits be cut to reduce the national debt, almost all of it at their making, to a level they insist: Speaker Boehner has already gotten 98% of what he had wanted, so look for him to now go for the jugular.