Off the rails – the case for taxing the rich

 

This clip of author Malcolm Gladwell speaking is well worth watching. He talks about the tax rates back in the 50s-70s, and how that benefited the country. That’s the era I grew up in – remember well the building of the interstate highway through my town, the construction of schools, sewer infrastructure spending, the race to the moon and more.

Honestly, from where I sit, the huge greed crisis we find ourselves in now began with the Republican rise in the 1980s, with Ronald Reagan and his cronies. That’s also when we saw the first large groups of homeless people on our streets. If you were born after 1980, or even the mid-70s, you would never remember that once this was a very different country.

I’d really urge you to watch this as he makes the case in a quite entertaining way, and also really illustrates the difference between the left and the current incarnation of Republican thinking. Spread and discuss.

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