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Updated: October 18, 2016
with Chris Hedges
RT America on Oct 15, 2016
On this week’s episode of On Contact, Chris Hedges sits down with David Cay Johnson, author of “The Making of Donald Trump” to examine how the Republican presidential nominee and the rich are benefiting from a rigged tax system. RT Correspondent Anya Parampil further explores how the U.S. tax code has been rewritten to benefit the wealthy.
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Updated: October 18, 2016
America’s biggest tax dodgers are Clinton’s biggest donors
RTAmerica on Oct 18, 2016
According to a new report from Bernie Sanders, who tracked earnings and tax reports from our biggest multinational corporations between the years of 2008 and 2012, our biggest tax dodgers are also Hillary Clinton’s biggest donors. The Resident breaks it down.
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Updated: October 18, 2016
Added another video report, “America’s biggest tax dodgers are Clinton’s biggest donors.”
Good interview. We need to brace ourselves, to prepare for the grim prospects this ghastly charade portends.
The current US military budget is over half a trillion dollars. A large number.
It’s one thing to attempt to forge an ‘invincible’ sword of empire ~ quite another to be lethally wounded in the process of etching its spiritual justification, as a ‘moral’ inscription on the blade.
Truth is the only grist for the mill of the gods, that grinds slowly and patiently.
Thanks, David. I think it’s like over $800,000,000.
Taxes are just the tip of the iceberg, but most people don’t have enough imagination to see more. The truth is that EVERY part of a capitalist economy is rigged to favor the rich. Here is a simple explanation of how:
All transactions can be called “trade”; for instance, employment is a trade of money for labor. Voluntary trade benefits both traders, but it more greatly benefits the trader who is in the stronger bargaining position, and thus makes him stronger still. So trade increases inequality, even if no cheating were involved. It’s like the board game “Monopoly,” which always ends with all the players but one impoverished, even if no one cheats. The long-term trend is toward plutocracy, which we now have. And although a benevolent oligarchy is possible in principle, it is rare in practice, because power really does corrupt; the Stanford Prison Experiment proved that.
The only remedy is to share everything. But we haven’t done that in 10,000 years, and so today most people find that inconceivable. John Lennon sang “Imagine no possessions — I wonder if you can,” and most people today can’t. They just nibble around the edges, because the real truth in front of them is too big to see. The first step to changing this is to get more people talking about it.
https://leftymathprof.wordpress.com/cruelty/
Thanks for sharing your latest revised piece, Lefty. Great work.