C. R. Stucki wrote:

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Please explain for me, What is the mechanism by which you believe 'the rich' ("Amazon, Facebook and Google") get rich at your expense? If you think Bezos is overcharging/cheating you when you buy from Amazon, why do you keep doing it? And you do not ever buy anything from Facebook or Google, right? So how do those two profit at your expense?

They are not taking advantage of me. I enter into a relationship with them voluntarily. And FYI FB and Twitter make money by selling my data to advertisers who can then target me. Makes 'em billions.

My point is that these companies (along with any of the rich that didn't inherit their millions) need customers that have money to spend to buy whatever they're selling.

This is why Republican "trickle down" is bad for not only the 90% of us but, more importantly, it's bad for our economy. All tax cuts should be directed at the 90% so that they'll be able to buy the goods and services that employ people and, yes, make more money for the rich along the way. As opposed to, you know, the rich hiding their Republican tax cut money in offshore accounts. To duck taxes and impoverish our nation and its standard of living, BTW.

A rising tide lifts all boats but ONLY if the tide is rising under EVERYONE'S boat. Otherwise you get what we've endured for 40 years, a few fat cats like Joe Manchin sitting up on their yacht, watching the rest of us drown.

Much work needs to be done in America. Where will the money come from if not from rolling back at least some of the tax cuts going back to Reagan?

among the challenges in trying to realize that rule nationally, is that the constitution allows for no voter initiative process. when the highest law of the land says the foxes must guard the henhouse, there's always chicken on the menu.

JL

I'd get depressed if I followed them too closely.

In 100% on board with simply eliminating the debt limit foolishness. Trump blew things up and incremental progress and caring about "tradition" just ain't gonna get it done anymore.

BTW thanks for cranking our the columns, Chris.

Another pundit suggested, when it comes to the tactic of specifying a new dollar amount limit to future debt, that the 'googolplex' be used. That is ten to the googol power; the googol power is ten to the 100th power. So raise the debt limit to ten to the (ten to a hundred) dollars.

The number is so large that printing it out in a political ad designed to shame and convict the Democrats would require more physical mass of paper than there is in the universe. In other words, such ads would be impossible - saving the nation from much fuss and trouble in the coming 2022 elections.