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In reply to the discussion: Top .1% of wealth about to exceed bottom 90% : [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)I suspect it will never happen, not in our lifetime or the next one.
Over 10 million people have moved into poverty in this administration alone. They took taxpayer money and enriched the banksters. So even when we had the taxes they took care of the banks and let kids go hungry. Still are, too.
We have birthed 2 or 3 generations now under the corporate plantation model, and they will have no concept of what you are talking about. Tens of millions will resist it, because they have been told it was wrong for 20 or 30 years. And nothing you or anyone else can do will change them.
Besides, we need $20-30 Trillion to make up just part of the ongoing losses to the lives that have been destroyed, and the jobs that have been replaced with those which offer a lifetime of servitude ending in death.
I agree, it needs to happen, but I doubt it will, without a huge national change in consciousness which isn't on the horizon. And even if it did it would be symbolic - which is important - but we would need 40 years of high taxes to being to recover the worthless crap we have shoveled under the rug at the fed, the jobs, the lost homes, the broken lives - and that doesn't even start us on the road to providing opportunity to people instead of asking them to prostrate themselves in front of banksters.
I think people better figure out how they can get together and make it better for themselves and their neighbors. 'Cause there ain't no help comin' that's got any substance.