@sunsporter1649 Oh no, I only want to increase taxes on the top 2%. I would like the U.S. to go back to the tax system we had in 1960. The country was prosperous then.
We have a military budget of nearly $800 billion per year! Most of which is stolden by corrupt military contractors. We CAN NOT have such a huge military budget and also give greedy corporations and billionaires tax cuts.
@sunsporter1649 That is pure fantasy. Thousands not millions.
Those young immigrants get jobs and pay taxes. They pay into social security which benefits us older folks. I've worked with many Central-American immigrants. I've found them to be decent people who just want a job.
BTW all us Americans were immigrants a few generations ago, except the indigenous peoples. And African-Americans were brought here by force.
@Thinkerbell Since the Rs are dedicated to enriching the wealthy and impoverishing the rest of us, I can understand why they'd vote Democrat.
Actually, most democrats in Congress are only a marginally better. Both the Rs and Ds are corrupted by corporate money in the form of campaign contributions. Every where else in the world that's called bribery.
@Thinkerbell Ronald Reagan was responsible for the decline of the middle-class. Under Reagan good paying manufacturing jobs were sent overseas, and there was a huge transfer of wealth from the working class and middle-class to the super wealthy.
I say we reverse that process. America should be a counrty that works for ALL of us, not just billionaires and corporations.
"Ronald Reagan was responsible for the decline of the middle-class."
Not so. The decline had been going on for many years before and since Reagan. In fact, there was a slight uptick near the end of his term and during the beginning of Bush 42's.
The most precipitous decline came under Clinton. See the chart below.
