In my opinion, Democrats are falling into a deadly trap.

[Mairead]

39. I can hardly imagine anything more powerful

than a chart that would capture how much the military budget benefits the wealthy, especially those in and around Congress, compared to how much it damages rather than benefits regular people.

Contrast that chart with one that would capture how minimal and basic the social-program expenditures are that they want to gut to feed that already-obscene military budget.

I might not be recalling the details completely correctly, but some years ago I saw data demonstrating that for every $1 the wealthy pay in taxes and on lobbying, they get some $2000 back. 2K might not be exactly right, but it's some truly breath-stopping number anyway.

We need to get that in an easily-digested form and put it out where people can see it.