It is reported that we have a 9.2 percent unemployment rate. The actual level is over 20%. For inner city Blacks this rate is as high as 50%. We are in crisis and falling fast.
In the 1940's individuals paid $1.00 in tax for every $1.50 paid by corporations. Today for every dollar paid by individuals to the government, corporations pay 25 cents.
When I was a child in the fifties and sixties, I do not remember ever seeing or hearing of a homeless person. Every road trip that my family made was over beautiful roads. No one ever complained that the schools needed money and everyone had food to eat. Everyone I knew owned their home.
For the past forty years, taxes have shifted from corporations to the middle class and the poor in America.
The argument that corporations in America use today to guard their massive profits is that if we simply give the banks and the corporations more money they will create jobs for the poor and middle class. How stupid are we? How many wealthy people do you know that give their money away?
This is a fallacious argument used to bamboozle our ignorant and naive citizenry.
This so called "trickle down" idea was built into the tax system in the 40's and 50's. For every dollar made over $100,000. 91 cents was paid to the federal government in tax. This was because we needed to rebuild our country after the Great Depression and WWII.
That period in our history holds a perfect blue print for our recovery today. It is the only way that we can pull ourselves out of the free fall that is gaining momentum in America.
We are in a very similar situation financially today as we were after the Great Depression and WWII and the highest tax rate for the wealthy is 35 percent. This just will not work. The idea of thinking it is okay to take away from the poorest of the poor and the middle class so that the rich can avoid tax is morally disgusting. Everyone needs to protest actively. It is alarming that this has been allowed to evolve and it needs to be stopped immediately.
The House Leadership and the corporations of America should be so deeply ashamed of themselves for the "money crimes" they are committing against America and our democracy. Everyone else should ostracize them as island cultures do when someone commits a serious crime or indiscretion against their society.
I strongly encourage every state that has a Congress person in office now who is undermining our country in this way to begin grass roots efforts to recall these individuals that are pulling the rug out from under our budget and destroying our country and her freedoms. Begin researching every company and only buy from those who give back to society; small markets and stores who you learn you can trust. We must work together now to take back our country.
Safe guards must be built into our tax structure so that if we can save our country from corporate greed we do not reach a point again were this form of financial crime is allowed.
If you need inspiration, take a look at Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood in Oregon and read about Roosevelt and his effort and courage to bolster the spirits of the needy in the 1930's when American's suffered as they do now. Roosevelt created 11 million jobs between 1934 and 1941.
Research every candidate and their voting records and only vote for individuals with moral courage, brilliance and heart.
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