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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-11 08:24 AM
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America's Wealthiest Are Actually Destructive Economic Parasites -- See for Yourself
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WED OCT 26, 2011 AT 10:39 PM PDT
America's Wealthiest Are Actually Destructive Economic Parasites -- See for Yourself
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If they sat in a chair for another decade -- and did absolutely nothing other than reinvest their yearly passive income -- they would end up with almost all of the remaining wealth of the nation. Through the economic magic of top-heavy compounding interest, indemnified shareholder dividends, the socialization of negligent losses in the private sector, and the lowest marginal tax rates in the nation's history -- regulation-free predatory capitalism has wiped out any meaningful future for the American people.

When a country's gross national income is not taxed progressively -- the commonwealth of the entire nation is diminished, starved, and destroyed. This is called "asset-stripping."

In caring for the wellbeing of the American people and investing in the human capital of the citizens through health and education -- the United States stands in solitary disgrace among the world's Developed Nations. The fact that the United States has the greatest economic inequality and the highest poverty level of all the Developed Nations, marks its economic policy as a fiscal obscenity.


Oh, and let me add this:
Americans -- especially the wealthiest Americans -- pay the lowest taxes in the world.
It should fill you with disgust and shame to see where we are on this chart:


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