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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHere's Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) today, refusing to answer a reporters questions on affordability
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The Polack MSgt
(13,861 posts)Wallowing in filth and sucking up to the wealthy is not work for those people, it's practically their fetish.
FTG
walkingman
(11,369 posts)think about it. Our representative government has failed the American people over the last 50 years. That is the reason that people are tired of the status quo. Lots of talk, perpetual war, and the largest inequality that this nation has ever had. If we do not unite against this mess it will just continue to get worse.
karynnj
(61,283 posts)I do think most Democrats have been sincere in wanting to make the gap smaller. The lack of success is that measures that do that are much harder to pass than measures that make it worse.
It is harder to pass a tax increase than a tax cut. This is true even if the tax increase is only on the top, however that is defined. It is harder to create and fund programs that help people than it is to kill or refund them. That is probably the most did depressing. Every program required enormous work to get something that could pass and it can be defunded with much less effort.
Another factor is that even with all laws kept the same, capital if invested even reasonably generates increasing income for those that have it. Limiting the estate taxes allows families to pass wealth from generation to generation.
Also consider that in the last 50 years, the inequality gap was reduced in just one President's term and then only slightly. That was Biden and he didn't get enough credit for it.
GiqueCee
(5,196 posts)... is, as they say in Texas, all hat and no cattle. Or, in his case, no brains.
Ars Longa
(716 posts)Mysterian
(6,782 posts)They should be.
mwmisses4289
(5,298 posts)Stupid jerk supposedly represents my area of Texas, but he certainly doesn't represent me!
walkingman
(11,369 posts)like Nehls, he basically doesn't do anything for his district. He is just as despicable, just keeps his mouth shut. Not only that.....I can assure you he will be re-elected next term.
People like to blame gerrymandering for this but in my opinion it is because the people of Texas (the voters) continue to support these assholes.