1 thought on “the late shift – current events with HCR”
“He posted an image of a white family from that era standing beside a Cadillac Coupe DeVille parked on a suburban street, with the caption: “BILLIONS WERE SPENT TO CONVINCE YOU THIS IS EVIL.”
Actually, that’s pretty much what the Democrats want for Americans. It’s what we had before Reagan. Growing up, my father had a middle-class income, was able to buy a new car every two years and was able to take a vacation. While the cars were never Cadillacs, they were new cars that were designed to transport the family in back.
In order to have achieved that, the wealthy had 70-90% tax on them and corporations had a 50% tax.* These rates allowed the government to be there for the people by providing various social programs along with paying as much as 80% of college tuition. But conservatives feared a strong middle class and set forth to destroy it starting with the Powell Memo, (https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/powellmemo/), the building block which led to Project 2025.
*Understand, these rates were rarely ever paid, but that was the idea. By building in incentives to NOT pay the government, companies could use that extra money by investing in itself via R & D, building new factories or even paying their employees better–all tax write offs. These options not only helped the economy overall, it helped everybody else.
“He posted an image of a white family from that era standing beside a Cadillac Coupe DeVille parked on a suburban street, with the caption: “BILLIONS WERE SPENT TO CONVINCE YOU THIS IS EVIL.”
Actually, that’s pretty much what the Democrats want for Americans. It’s what we had before Reagan. Growing up, my father had a middle-class income, was able to buy a new car every two years and was able to take a vacation. While the cars were never Cadillacs, they were new cars that were designed to transport the family in back.
In order to have achieved that, the wealthy had 70-90% tax on them and corporations had a 50% tax.* These rates allowed the government to be there for the people by providing various social programs along with paying as much as 80% of college tuition. But conservatives feared a strong middle class and set forth to destroy it starting with the Powell Memo, (https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/powellmemo/), the building block which led to Project 2025.
*Understand, these rates were rarely ever paid, but that was the idea. By building in incentives to NOT pay the government, companies could use that extra money by investing in itself via R & D, building new factories or even paying their employees better–all tax write offs. These options not only helped the economy overall, it helped everybody else.