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==Important and Overlooked Stories on the Web== | ==Important and Overlooked Stories on the Web== | ||
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|'''Why Billionaires Fund Anti-Trans & Anti-Black-History Political Movements''' | |||
[[File:For Billionaires.png|thumb|center|[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/16/2187621/-Why-Billionaires-Fund-Anti-Trans-Anti-Black-History-Political-Movements by thomhartmann 8/16/2023 Daily Kos Date]]] | |||
The most visible feature of the Reagan Revolution was dropping the top income tax bracket for the morbidly rich from 74 percent down to 27 percent and then shooting the tax code so full of loopholes that today’s average American billionaire pays only 3.4 percent income tax. Many, like Trump for decades, pay nothing or next to nothing at all. (How much do you pay?) | |||
But for a few dozen, maybe a hundred, of America’s billionaires that’s not enough. | |||
Afflicted with the hoarding syndrome variant of obsessive compulsive disorder, there is never enough money for them no matter how many billions they accumulate. | |||
|'''California Homeless Study''' | |'''California Homeless Study''' | ||
[[File:0713 NHOMELESS tent.jpg|thumb|center|[ Link bBy Ali Martin 7/13/23 The Christian Science Monitor]]] | [[File:0713 NHOMELESS tent.jpg|thumb|center|[ Link bBy Ali Martin 7/13/23 The Christian Science Monitor]]] | ||
