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For a century the Plutocrats and Conservative Republicans have systematically worked at giving the rights of individuals to corporations and other organizations, a most recent example being the Americans United decision. Prior to that was the right of free speech. Betwixt was allowing "freedom of religion" to override anti-discrimination laws. Using "the right of free speech" we have been flooded with the propaganda designed to spread and convince voters to support the false "trickle-down" economic theories that magnified income and wealth inequity for nearly half a century.
The Actual Data:
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| 1932 63%×4 =252 1936 79%×4 =316 1940 81%×2 =162 1942 88%×2 =176 1944 94%×4 =376 1946 86%×2 =172 1948 82%×2 =164 1950 91%×2 =182 1952 92%×2 =184 1954 91%×10=910 1964 77%×1 = 77 1965 70%×3 =210 1968 76%×1 = 76 1969 77%×1 = 77 1970 72%×1 = 72 1971 70%×10=700 1981 69%×1 = 69 50 year average = 83.5% |
1982 50%×5=250 1987 38%×1= 38 1986 28%×3= 84 1989 31%×2= 62 1991 40%×8=320 2001 39%×1= 39 2002 38%×1= 38 2003 33%×6=198 2009 999 27 year average = 37% |
| 1932-1981 rebuilt our infrastructure,
taking us out of the Great Depression, paid for the second World War,
the Marshal Plan to rebuild Europe, the Korean War, The Space Race, and
the Moon Landings. In 1980 Reagan instituted trickle-down economics, cutting taxes from 70% to 50%. 5 years in a recession brought on by lowered taxes. |
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And now the Republicans are trying to enact huge tax cuts for the wealthy by repealing the ACA camouflaged as the AHCA, which will knock 23 million off healthcare and restore prior conditions exclusions to benefit insurance companies, and they are planning to do it in secret! - without Democrats and without hearings!