Since the Reagan Era, every time the conservative Republicans have had a chance, they’ve drafted and passed another massive Tax Cut law to put more and more money in the hands of the wealthy and the corporations that they own.
We’ve all seen the results of these actions over the past four decades, in the rising inequality in wealth and earnings…
So much money has been accumulated at the top that they’ve practically made it impossible for even middle-class earners to get a leg up into that vaunted 10%.
For two generations, the wealthy have been getting unimaginably richer.
It’s time those hoarders open their coffers and share some of what they’ve been garnering up, because most of that wealth didn’t come from hard work, it came from Taxes they would have (and should have) paid being cut or eliminated, allowing them to keep more and more of what they made — all during the time when wage slaves have been losing more and more of what they make to rising taxes (FICA) to ensure they don’t end up in penury in old age. Because the wealthy corporations stopped rewarding loyalty and decades of work with a company-provided pension.
So how about the Koch brother still alive (and his family) donate a Billion Dollars to fund food for families without the money or a job to provide for their needs? What about Sheldon Adelson’s family, they could certainly donate a Billion, what with Sheldon alone being worth $28 Billion. Michael Bloomberg spent about a billion dollars running for president but he’s still worth $54.8 billion, pretty sure Mike could afford to donate another billion to the welfare of the people of New York, right?
There are 614 U.S. citizens on Forbes' 2020 World's Billionaires list
These are the states with the most billionaires in America, and as you can clearly see by the math, most of them have more than a single billion
CALIFORNIA | 165 BILLIONAIRES COMBINED NET WORTH: $723.7 BILLION
NEW YORK | 118 BILLIONAIRES COMBINED NET WORTH: $521.5 BILLION
FLORIDA | 58 BILLIONAIRES COMBINED NET WORTH: $183.2 BILLION
TEXAS | 56 BILLIONAIRES COMBINED NET WORTH: $238.9 BILLION
CONNECTICUT | 17 BILLIONAIRES COMBINED NET WORTH: $66.3 BILLION
ILLINOIS | 17 BILLIONAIRES COMBINED NET WORTH: $52.5 BILLION
MASSACHUSETTS | 17 BILLIONAIRES COMBINED NET WORTH: $51.5 BILLION
WASHINGTON | 12 BILLIONAIRES COMBINED NET WORTH: $321.4 BILLION
GEORGIA | 12 BILLIONAIRES COMBINED NET WORTH: $41.6 BILLION
NEVADA | 11 BILLIONAIRES COMBINED NET WORTH: $56.5 BILLION
Combined that’s $2.257 Trillion dollars of wealth in the hands of just 466 people.
How about they guarantee loans at zero percent interest to the states to fund unemployment during the pandemic?
There are quite literally probably a billion ways any of the money these fabulously wealthy people would be willing to less loose of could be used to help sustain the people of America while we wait for this virus to finish killing us and for our scientists and researchers to find a vaccine for it.
But no matter how you look at it? It’s time they all do the right thing and reward the nation which afforded them the ability to become wealthy. Donate or loan money at zero interest to the states, keep it out of the hands of that fucking grifter in the White House.
Because it’s going to take something FROM EVERYONE to keep this nation afloat in the era of Trump and COVID-19, and to recover from it when it’s finally over.