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BeckyDem

(8,361 posts) Wed Sep 9, 2020, 10:14 AM Sep 2020

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Robert Reich: I refuse to tolerate a system that lets billionaires add $792,000,000,000

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Robert Reich: I refuse to tolerate a system that lets billionaires add $792,000,000,000 (Original Post) BeckyDem Sep 2020 OP

Good point malaise Sep 2020 #1

Yes. Reich is correct to make the dollar figure the focal point because the inequity BeckyDem Sep 2020 #4

I don't hold my breath over fundamental changes to this system Cirque du So-What Sep 2020 #2

I hope it never comes to that, because I'm not sure we would win. BeckyDem Sep 2020 #3

Me either Cirque du So-What Sep 2020 #5

Never willingly, totally agree. BeckyDem Sep 2020 #6

I so wish this man had become President MissMillie Sep 2020 #7

He's a wonderful man, super smart and most kind. BeckyDem Sep 2020 #8

malaise

(268,987 posts)

1. Good point

Reply to BeckyDem (Original post)

Wed Sep 9, 2020, 10:16 AM

Sep 2020

Rec

BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)

4. Yes. Reich is correct to make the dollar figure the focal point because the inequity

Reply to malaise (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 9, 2020, 10:25 AM

Sep 2020

is something those guys own and they fight against curing.

Cirque du So-What

(25,938 posts)

2. I don't hold my breath over fundamental changes to this system

Reply to BeckyDem (Original post)

Wed Sep 9, 2020, 10:20 AM

Sep 2020

The best we can hope for is incremental change at the margins. True change would only happen after a protracted war - and I’m not referring to the type suggested lately that involves camouflaged yahoos cavorting in the woods.

BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)

3. I hope it never comes to that, because I'm not sure we would win.

Reply to Cirque du So-What (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 9, 2020, 10:23 AM

Sep 2020

Cirque du So-What

(25,938 posts)

5. Me either

Reply to BeckyDem (Reply #3)

Wed Sep 9, 2020, 10:28 AM

Sep 2020

Billionaires will never return willingly, for example, to truly progressive tax rates.

BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)

6. Never willingly, totally agree.

Reply to Cirque du So-What (Reply #5)

Wed Sep 9, 2020, 10:30 AM

Sep 2020

MissMillie

(38,556 posts)

7. I so wish this man had become President

Reply to BeckyDem (Original post)

Wed Sep 9, 2020, 10:49 AM

Sep 2020

Give him a blue Legislative branch and watch America change for the better.

BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)

8. He's a wonderful man, super smart and most kind.

Reply to MissMillie (Reply #7)

Wed Sep 9, 2020, 10:51 AM

Sep 2020

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