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Saturday, December 2, 2017

U.S. Tax Cuts Further Decimate Democracy

"As the tax cut legislation passed by the Senate early Saturday hurtles toward final approval, Republicans are preparing to use the swelling deficits made worse by the package as a rationale to pursue their long-held vision: undoing the entitlements of the New Deal and Great Society, leaving government leaner and the safety net skimpier for millions of Americans." - New York Times   Tax Cuts Increasing Inequality

We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both,” Associate Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said decades ago during another period of pronounced inequality in America.

"America is the Richest and Most Unequal Country" United States: Greatest Wealth Inequality

Wealth Gap Between Rich And Poor Is The Widest Ever Recorded 



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