lost.
Instead of having equal protection under the law, tax laws, licensing laws, and laws to further war policies have been adopted to benefit and transfer the wealth of the nation to the rich and the super-rich.
This is how all of the rights identified by the author have been lost. The unequal tax laws and other unequal laws have caused a greater concentration of wealth in the hands of the rich and super-rich in ways that the author identifies. While ordinary Americans pay income taxes on all of their wages plus Social Security taxes, the super-rich get tax breaks from income earned on capital gains, from income earned in foreign countries, and from income hidden in foreign countries. Their income from capital gains is not subject to Social Security taxes, nor is the income which they hide in trusts and corporations in foreign countries.
The unequal application of the law has allowed them to acquire so much wealth that they can afford to buy politicians while we, in effect, can only vote to ratify the actions of the politicians. No matter how high the salaries of the politicians are from our collective approval of their salaries, the rich and super-rich can pay them more. The rich and super-rich can make campaign contributions, give politicians stock tips from insider information, hire their family members to be lobbyists or corporate executives. We can't compete with any of that.
All of the items identified by the author are traceable to the unequal application of the law and the abandonment of principles of the law.
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