We have the world's richest billionaires, who pay only a tiny fraction of their income in taxes compared to cops and bus drivers. Our middle class, meanwhile, has collapsed from being two-thirds of us in 1980 to fewer than 45 percent of us today as Reaganomics (which is still in effect) has transferred over $50 trillion in wealth from working class people into the money bins of the top one percent.
" Three men own more wealth than the bottom 170 million Americans, and those three men stood with Trump at his inauguration.
" Corporations screw their customers with impunity as fossil fuel company CEOs toast each other with champagne while communities are destroyed by the extreme weather their products are causing.
" Politicians are on the take and that has paralyzed our politics; Citizens United was sanctioned by five Republicans on the Supreme Court who, themselves, had benefited from the largess of America's billionaires.
"America's most farming-dependent counties overwhelmingly backed Dotard Trumpf in the 2024 election by an average of 77.7%." investigatemidwest.org
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