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madokie

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11. Ultimately

Reply to Smitty63nnn (Reply #9)

Tue Oct 24, 2017, 07:54 PM

Oct 2017

our government would be able to afford all the social programs we so badly need. Plus rebuild our infrastructure, prepare for the future even

Its not right that we have homeless people. Should be zero persons who don't have a place to lay their heads or a table to eat from. Its not right that we have so many people who can't afford to see a doctor or a dentist.

Where we are as a society is not where we ought to be.

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NoShit... [View all] pbmus Oct 2017 OP

Facts no longer matter in the U.S., especially in the Republican wing of government. SamKnause Oct 2017 #1

True that madokie Oct 2017 #7

It all starts with the minimum wage Smitty63nnn Oct 2017 #9

Ultimately madokie Oct 2017 #11

I totally agree, but Smitty63nnn Oct 2017 #17

They have decoupled profits from wages... Wounded Bear Oct 2017 #2

Anybody who believes this is going to be a windfall for the working and middle classes is just smirkymonkey Oct 2017 #3

Have a "t" on me. Gamble with it. n/t rzemanfl Oct 2017 #4

I'll take "missing letters" for 500, Alex. n/t They_Live Oct 2017 #8

Donald Drumpf's *ee tapes. n/t rzemanfl Oct 2017 #10

Oh, I don't know; "I would be everything I own" has rather a profound meaning, no? WinkyDink Oct 2017 #16

Unfortunately, today there is more money to be made from investing in assets than workers. Hoyt Oct 2017 #5

Yep, not only profits have been historically high, but also the CASH ON HAND of corporations. TrollBuster9090 Oct 2017 #6

Or the billionaire simply buys more property, which does not create jobs, only inflates real estate. Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2017 #12

And then rents out the real estate for double the mortgage... pbmus Oct 2017 #13

DUH!!! Workers are considered LIABILITIES by corporate owners and stock-holders!! PROFITS ARE WinkyDink Oct 2017 #14

Of course it won't. It never has, that I'm aware of. nt Honeycombe8 Oct 2017 #15

Just the same old tired shit that Bush did world wide wally Oct 2017 #18

And reagonomics...a totally failed trickle down disaster.. pbmus Oct 2017 #19

No, it was a successful disaster and a failed, flawed BigmanPigman Oct 2017 #21

Since Reagan, GOP gives tax cuts; then Democrats have to raise taxes to bail out the sinking ship. VOX Oct 2017 #20

A boss I had once described corporate taxation in the best way I ever heard jmowreader Oct 2017 #22

How does the MAGA working class have no idea who their oppressors are? Corvo Bianco Oct 2017 #23