Via Ben Wikler:
Absorb this graph—but note that the final year is 2018, the year of Trump’s tax cuts. That’s #Trump’s big goal, always has been: to rip off working people and hand huge bags of cash to the ultra-wealthy, like himself and his Mar-a-Lago buddies.
Rutger Bregman:
Stunning graph: the plummeting tax rates of the richest Americans. For the first time in history, billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans.
If the richest Americans had simply grabbed the cash & invested it, they'd probably have gotten away with it.
Instead, these wealthy individuals used these gains to:
1. Fund a fascist movement
2. Fry a planet
3. Let 1.2 million Americans die in a pandemic
4. Eradicate the civil rights of 167 million American women
5. Buy a corrupt Supreme Court
6. Bribe 147 members of Congress into participating in a coup attempt
7. Fund voter suppression efforts
8. Thwart unions
Laffy
Nicole Parsons
George Dinwiddie