danielpalos
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maybe we also need a "labor gains" tax preference for labor at ten percent.yet, the right Only complains when socialism may be of some benefit to the least wealthy.How, in a nation as wealthy as America, can the economy simply stop working for people at large, while super-serving those at the very top? Through exhaustive research and analysis, the political scientists Hacker and Pierson — whom Bill regards as the “Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson” of economics — detail important truths behind a 30-year economic assault against the middle class.
Who’s the culprit? “American politics did it– far more than we would have believed when we started this research,” Hacker explains. “What government has done and not done, and the politics that produced it, is really at the heart of the rise of an economy that has showered huge riches on the very, very, very well off.”
Jacob Hacker & Paul Pierson on Engineered Inequality | Moyers & Company | BillMoyers.com
JFK once said about the economy....a rising tide lifts all boats
Since we sold out to supply side economics....a rising tide only lifts the yachts
To them, socialism is anything the government does to help working Americans