A State of the Union address admission reveals a plan to replace progressive income taxes with tariffs—a regressive shift that would raise prices and burden working families.
WBAI Panel Why Zohran Mamdani’s Inaugural Speech Matters Nationally
Zohran Mamdani’s speech challenged austerity politics and redefined governance. A WBAI panel explains its national implications.
If America stopped redistributing the working and middle class’s money to the rich, we’d be OK.
America currently supports socialism for the wealthy as it distributes money from the working and middle class to the rich, unlike happy countries like Denmark and the Netherlands.
Trump’s tariffs penalize the working class for the sins of the rich and corporate America
When we shipped jobs overseas, the working class paid. Trump now uses tariffs to pay for his tax cuts for the rich and to bring back manufacturing.
IT’S NOT WEALTH ENVY: Money not paid to you and inflated prices you pay make the wealthy rich.
Rich people do not get wealthy because they are inherently more innovative or industrious than most. They profit from inflated pricing and wages denied the working class sanctioned by the tenets of capitalism.
EXPLAINED: Our rigged economy that transfers our income and wealth to the few on the top.
The wealth & income of the rich grows faster than the American economic pie. The rigged behavior is the formula to indentured servitude for the rest of us.
Democrats must not abandon the working class: Fareed Zakaria gets this one wrong.
Democrats must never give up on any demographic. What they must do is work hard to earn them, something the Republicans have done using racism and xenophobia. We must use love and nurture.
Why 135.9 million of the working class are angry. Les Leopold nailed it with one minor exception.
Workers need to know that when a private equity firm buys up the company they work for or a stock buyback is announced, they will likely get kicked in the face. Analysis of a prescient article from @Les_Leopold.
Fmr Press Sec Stephanie Grisham ‘Trump calls his supporters basement dwellers when cameras off.’
Trump’s Former Press Secretary, Stephanie Grisham, appeared at the DNC to endorse Kamala Harris as she told a sad truth. Trump calls his MAGA supporters ‘basement dwellers’ when the cameras are off.
The working class may have to revolt to stop the pillaging by the rich.
The Les Leopold article “Pillaging by the Super-Rich Will Continue Until the Working Class Revolts” clarifies that the working class must take control of its economic well-being.