So we're stuck on the issue of whether we should raise taxes on the wealthy. The wealthy are being taxed at a lower rate now than they have been in over 50 years. Many wealthy people, including Warren Buffet, Bill Clinton, and hundreds others, have stated that their own taxes are too low, and that raising taxes on the wealthy would harm no one, would help everybody, and would make sense.
The American people, by a wide margin, favor doing so. And yet, it hasn't happened, and it appears that it won't happen anytime soon. This is yet another proof of the corporate ownership of the United States, rule by the wealthy, plutocratic oligarchy.
There are millions of Americans who support the Occupy movement, but are unable to hit the streets and camp out. These are middle class Americans with jobs, showers, and mortgages, like myself.
If we start hitting the streets in large numbers the plutocracy will be in peril.
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