Soak the Rich? Or Get Our Wealth Back?

[truedelphi]

22. Unfortuantely, tax monies usually only encourage the political elite to fund new wars.

Far better to insist on regulations that keep jobs here inside the USA, that keep tariffs in place, so that farmers are not undercut by produce from South America and Turkey, etc.

As far as keeping jobs here in the USA, might I mention the excellent job that comedian Larry Wilmore did on his show last night? (The Nightly Show, via The Comedy Channel, a newcomer in Stephen Colbert's old slot.) Wilmore showed that Apple had posted a record 18 billion dollar profit in ONE QUARTER recently. Yet we don't expect Apple to utilize people here to make things? Instead, we as consumers allow Apple to use slave labor in China and other places. (Oh well, they are young Chinese people, far from our maddening shores. So who cares that they are slaves!)


Another needed regulation - the $ 29 to $ 40 surcharge when a checking account has insufficient funds. If the state of Oregon could keep banks from charging more than $ 30 for such an item way back in the 1990's, then surely the technology now exists to make sure poor people are not charged more than three bucks. Bankers receive some 48 billions of dollars from poor people on the current extremely expensive surcharge fees.