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Wall Street gave $144 billion dollars as compensation this year.
We fought 2 wars for $1.3 trillion dollars. [Actually the true cost of the war is $4 trillion dollars.]
Bush tax cuts for the wealthy Americans are $42 billion dollars every year.
US corporations are giving less than 10% taxes they used to pay. GE and some other companies paid zero tax.
83% of all US stocks are in the hands of 1% of Americans.
Only 5% of us households have earned additional income to match the rising cost of housing since 1974.
21% of Americans below poverty line. One in 5 american kid.
Its not the American pie is getting smaller. But its getting bigger and bigger. Its your share getting smaller.
if you’re a woman, making 77 cents to the dollar of what men make, or a woman of color making 61 to 52 cents to that
same dollar.
in 1979, the richest 1 percent of Americans made an average of $550,000 a year. A middle class
family made about $54,000. In 2007, the richest 1 percent earned an average of
almost $1.9 million each year – whoa! But that middle class family made around $65,000.
The income of the rich has grown by almost 250% while the middle class is barely making 20% more than they did three decades ago.
In fact, the media says they are “too BIG to fail.”
Earth that is too big to fail; We the people are too big to fail.Our families, our communities, our dreams are too big to fail. America is too big to fail.
taxes are not charity, and they are not theft. Corporate taxes are a return on our investment, as Americans.
Which means what our businesses do pay out in taxes, they more than get back in services, support and stability — all keys to making a profit.
A smart computer geek can use the Internet to get rich, and we applaud them; but he or she didn’t have to put on a hardhat and go out there and build the internet himself. Our tax dollars did that.
So we, the American taxpayers, have put a ton of resources on the table, creating a stable and highly productive environment for businesspeople.
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Our grandparents respected business people. But they didn’t worship them. They didn’t worship
markets.
In 1945 more than a third of all American workers were union workers. Today? Just 13 percent.
Privatize the gain, socialize the pain. No rules for the rich. No rights for the poor.
If we just went back to Clinton era tax rates and military expenditures, we could pay the deficit off in 10 years or so.
How about a gambling tax on Wall Street?
Roll back the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy? Right there we’d save $80 billion over just
the next two years!
Bring all of our brave troops home, and use that $3 billion a week to rebuild the infrastructure of our own country.
How about we take some of the billions we give to Halliburton or other semi-shady military contractors and war profiteers?
Liberty and justice for all.
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