If you are poor: Ain’t Nobody Going to Pay Your Way!
If You Are Rich: Congress Will Give You $ 1.9 Trillion Tax Break!
The Largest increase in income inequality in American History.
Ain’t Nobody (A Song by Dorie Friedman)
Well the boss man said you better get up coal
Way down in the belly of the earth below
Get it up quick and get it up strong
‘Cause the walls of the mine don’t hold that long
Chorus: I said I work all night, I work all day
Well, I work all night, I work all day
Said I work all night, I work all day
‘Cause ain’t nobody gonna pave my way
Well, a young little mama she stands at home
With a big fat baby on her old hip bone
Four little youngins just a-running around
And their daddy’s laying six feet underground
Well, the warden said you better pick up speed
You better break those rocks ‘til your knuckles bleed
Swing that pick, bend your knees
You got twenty-nine years ‘til your chains are free
Well, a young little mama, she’s walking home
From a twelve hour day at the factory dome
Hands in her pocket and a knife in one
‘Cause every catcaller’s trying to have his fun
Well the farmer said you better get up hay
You better break your back and earn your pay
Two cold dollars in my empty hand
And five in the pocket of the white young man
Ain’t nobody, ain’t nobody, ain’t nobody
Gonna pave my way
Ain’t nobody, ain’t nobody, ain’t nobody
Gonna pave my way
Now the Voice of Congress
Congress voted a budget measure this month that will accelerate income inequality exponentially across the nation.
In this new budget, Congress will provide $1.9 trillion in tax breaks for the top 1 percent of the population, mostly mega-millionaires and corporations. How will they pay for this? Cutting $1 trillion from Medicaid, for starters.
All this in a country where individuals in the top 1% earn an average of $ 1.3 million a year while people in the bottom 50% earn the same average pre-tax income as in 1980, which is $16,000.
Even more instructive: eight hyper-rich Americans today own as much as the entire bottom half of the nation’s households (from James C. Scott writing in the current issue of the London Review of Books).
Final Words
Was Joseph De Maistre right when he observed that every country gets the type of government it deserves? Or is it time to bring to an end the shameless accumulation of wealth by the elites?
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