The USA only has one fiscal problem: Lack of political will to tax those who have all the money.

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97. K&R

Look it: it's this simple. We pay our taxes to the USG via the IRS every April 15 or throughout the year, or both. And the USG turns around and GIVES our money to the 1% in the form of "tax breaks" (who gives the American people a tax break?); in the form of subsidies to the oil industry (wtf is up with that???); via loopholes that we know nothing about, because they were hidden in the back of a Bill somewhere that glided thru umpteen years ago, and it doesn't seem to matter whether it's a Democratic or Republican Administration who signed it!

You're right. The American public does have a fiscal problem. It's called retro amnesia. And if you try inform them of what has happened or try to shake them awake with the truth, they look at you like you are out of your mind, or they call you a conspiracy theorist, or they just think you are a partisan hack. Give them a book that explains it? Ha! They won't read it.

Just ask them this one last question and let it roll around in their heads for the rest of time: How the eff did the 1% get all the money? Hard work? Elbow grease? Them SOBs never worked an effing day in their lives. All their wealth came from one thing: the sweat and blood of the American people, er LABOR.

It IS the lack of will, plus the lack of intelligence, that keeps us from doing what needs to be done: Tax them SOBs back into the stone age and balance the scales of justice once and for all.