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Elizabeth Warren - Two Cent Wealth Tax. First Fifty Million Dollars FREE! Above That, Pay Two Cents Per Dollar to Make America Great!

MEME - Elizabeth Warren 2 Cent Wealth Tax - First Fifty Million in savings FREE! Above That, Pay Two Cents per Dollar to Build a Better America!
Honest Abe Lincoln is a Good Campaign Mascot
for Elizabeth Warren...
Because She is ALSO Famous for Being Honest!

https://elizabethwarren.com
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/12/elizabeth-warren-proposes-sweeping-increase-in-social-security-benefits-financed-by-wealth-taxes.html 

Headline: Elizabeth Warren proposes sweeping increase 

in Social Security benefits, financed by wealth taxes.



https://theweek.com/speedreads/865571/bill-gates-sounds-supportive-elizabeth-warrens-wealth-tax
HEADLINE: Bill Gates sounds supportive of Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax

Bill Gates knows a thing or two about wealth, and the Microsoft co-founder, who is one of the world's wealthiest people, says he'd be ok with a tax on his assets.

In an interview with Bloomberg, Gates was asked if he would support a wealth tax — which differs from income tax in that it includes things like a person's real estate investments or personal trusts — as a way to tackle growing inequality in the United States. Gates said he wouldn't be opposed to such a measure, but he did indicate it's not currently a realistic notion, in part because countries fear it would lead to an exodus of their wealthier citizens. So, unless there's some sort of international cooperation, Gates doesn't think it's going to happen. Instead, he more fervently supports an increase for the already-existing estate tax.

"I doubt, you know, the U.S. will do a wealth tax, but I wouldn't be against it," he said. "The closest thing we have to it is the estate tax. And I've been a huge proponent that that should go back to the level of 55 percent that it was a few decades ago."

Sara Nelson, President of the Flight Attendants Union, called for a General Strike during Trump's Government Shutdown. She has some brilliant Ideas about how to FIX America.

MORE Labor Unions fighting for Increased Wages, Better Working Conditions, Healthcare, Childcare, Retirement, Full Time Jobs, Profit Sharing Safety... 

Corporations have reaped a massive windfall from Trump's Tax Cut for the Rich Law BUT... WORKERS have gotten Nothing... NOTHING... All that money has been used for "Stock Buybacks" (putting more money in Rich People's Pockets) instead of Raising Wages, bringing Factories back to the USA or Making Equipment Better, Safer... 

The Workers Have Increased Productivity over the Last Few Decades but ALL THAT increased Wealth has been Pocketed by The Rich. Jobs these days are mostly - Low Pay, No Benefits, TEMP,  UBER-Like (sub contractors with No Benefits, ALL the risk) or Part Time... Gone are the Jobs that enabled a Man to Raise a Family using His Paycheck from ONE JOB. 

Her Slogan is: "ONE JOB SHOULD BE ENOUGH!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Nelson_(union_leader)

https://twitter.com/flyingwithsara?lang=en

I saw her on the Rick Smith Show on Free Speech TV. a show devoted to Pro Labor Union interviews...   

Free Speech TV is Viewer Financed so they have the freedom to publish Ideas that are NOT blessed by Corporate Masters. Link TV, PBS and RT ( Russian Television) are Pllaces that broadcast Shows Forbidden by Advertisers... It becomes obvious when I Compare their NEWS Shows with CNN, FOX, and MSNBC. They just show what will attract the MOST VIEWERS so they can sell Advertising Time... They Repeat the same subjects again and again and again because that's the best way to get high ratings... NO Concern with Informing The Public, it's all INFOTAINMENT... Consider that they typically show One Minute of News and then Five Minutes of Talking Heads telling You What to Think.  and Yowsa, Yousa some of those Talking Heads are Stunningly Beautiful Women! What they say seems so Significant! and the Some Talking Heads play a Character... (Symone Sanders as the Angry Black Lady) but she's gone! She went to work for her Father, Bernie Sanders and is rarely seen on TV... Deep Sigh... Talking Heads are a proven formula for attracting an audience... 

I enjoy Democracy NOW!... I enjoy Pirate Television... I enjoy ACT OUT!... I enjoy Economic Update... I enjoy The Keiser Report... I enjoy The World according to Jesse... I enjoy Bioneers... I enjoy Redacted Tonight... I enjoy BOOM BUST...                                                                                                                                                 

Chuck Collins of Inequality.org - Interesting Talk on Pirate Television. - A Cure for Excessive Wealth Disorder.

Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the USA and He has a Plan to Solve this crisis: Tax the Rich, Pay the Working Poor $15 an Hour. It's called BUBBLE UP ECONOMICS and it's an Obvious Winner. 

He says that Many Rich People Today had the Advantage of Government Sponsored Education and Housing Loans. Programs that do NOT exist anymore... If The Rich would Pay their Fair Share of Taxes we could Afford Zero Interest College and Home Loans... The Poor would use those Government Benefits to Raise their own standard of living and become Middle Class. Just Like We Did Right After World War TWO. 




Here’s a simple test to determine whether politicians are carrying water for the richest 0.1 percent.
Three individuals — Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Bill Gates — have as much wealth as half of all U.S. households put together.

Since the economic meltdown of 2008, the lion’s share of income and wealth growth hasn’t gone just to the top 1 percent — it’s gone to the richest one-tenth of 1 percent. This 0.1 percent includes households with annual incomes starting at $2.2 million and wealth over $20 million.
https://inequality.org/great-divide/cure-excessive-wealth-disorder/

Chuck Collins: "Reversing Wealth Inequality"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xmb3K5N9Ns


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Obama, others warned Trump that pulling out of Iran nuke deal could lead to war...
"The choice we face is ultimately between diplomacy or some form of war," then-President Barack Obama said in 2015. But Trump Failed to Listen, causing Current Crisis... DUMB! https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/obama-others-warned-trump-pulling-out-iran-nuke-deal-could-n1020461

General Electric to scrap California power plant 20 years early. Gas Powered Turbine Uneconomical in compared to Cheap Wind and Solar. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ge-power/general-electric-to-scrap-california-power-plant-20-years-early-idUSKCN1TM2MV

EX-TRUMP SUPPORTER: I WAS 'REALLY AN IDIOT' TO THINK HE'D BE A GOOD PRESIDENT... Weissman replied that Trump "is not mentally fit to be President," an argument that George Conway has long made despite being the husband of a top Trump administration official.

A Twitter user dedicated to educating people about narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders added to the conversation that mental health care professionals have shared similar opinions of Trump for the last three-and-a-half years... https://www.newsweek.com/trump-supporter-idiot-donald-good-president-1445244

DOZENS OF COASTAL REPUBLICANS VOTE WITH DEMOCRATS TO BAN OFFSHORE OIL, GAS DRILLING... https://www.newsweek.com/dozens-republicans-join-democrats-ban-offshore-oil-drilling-1445320


Freight Shipments Sinking Globally, US Joins the Parade: Global Recession Starts... Trump's Insane Trade War is CAUSING RECESSION WORLDWIDE. 
https://moneymaven.io/mishtalk/economics/freight-shipments-sinking-globally-us-joins-the-parade-global-recession-starts-j-njg-MN-kSAo-RVNHj9mQ/

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