Books:
Link related to post:Link 1: The Center for Pub;ic Integrity:https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/taxes/unequal-burden/how-four-decades-of-tax-cuts-fueled-inequality/Link 2: Ending Special Tax Tr4eatment for the Very Wealthy:https://www.americanprogress.org/article/ending-special-tax-treatment-wealthy/Link 3: Citizens United Five Years Later:https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-five-years-later
Link 4: Ending Special Tax Treatment for the Very Wealthy:https://www.americanprogress.org/article/ending-special-tax-treatment-wealthy/
Link 5: How four decades of tax cuts fueled inequality
Link 6: The Middle-Class Squeeze
Link 7:
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:
Link 8:
Research from Brookings Institution
Link 9:
End the Job Creator Lie Petition:
Link 10:
NPR:
Link 11: Economic Policy Institute
https://www.epi.org/publication/financial-regulations/ tracks how the deregulatory trends continue to benefit Wall Street over Main Street.
Link 12: Center for American Progress
Link 13:
Link 14:
Brookings Institution
Way Back Machine:
Center for American Progress: https://www.americanprogress.org
Inequality.org: https://www.inequality.org
Public Citizen: https://www.citizen.org/article/the-commodity-futures-modernization-act-of-2000-fueled-the-financial-crisis/
This outlines how CFMA helped create the conditions for the 2008 crisis, amplifying wealth inequality
Studies such as those from the Congressional Budget Office show that the act disproportionately affected low- and middle-income families, while wealthier Americans were shielded from the cuts.
Other interesting links:
Madeline Albright discusses death of half a million Iraqi children:
https://youtu.be/KP1OAD9jSaI?si=Y4oyDKvxMiKzxber
Each Walmart Store Costs The Taxpayers one million dollars:
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/taxpayers-subsidize-poverty-wages-at-walmart-mcdonalds-other-large-corporations-gao-finds/
Walmart Takes Out Life Insurance Against Its Sickest Employees:
https://news.wfsu.org/wfsu-local-news/2010-05-07/walmart-sued-for-collecting-life-insurance-on-employees
Average Age of Uktoday'srainian Soldier:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-battles-its-demography-find-sufficient-soldiers-peter-apps-2024-08-07/
Lindsey Graham Saying Ukraine Will Fight To The Last Ukrainian:
https://youtu.be/yJvXqtYdJqk?si=HB0BPqVp3ZxYDfcC&t=99
Hannibal Directive:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Directive
Israel Attacked U.S. Naval Ship U.S.S. Liberty (ote that this is a .gov website):
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v19/d284
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC):
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1969-1976/oil-embargo
Expensive Televisions:
https://www.nbcnews.com/technolog/best-hdtv-ever-15-000-lg-9-000-samsung-oleds-6c10931492
Dock workers show how much power workers have in America's economy:
https://youtu.be/gXCcYJgGjVI?si=8uep4spNTQ_ZJPVC
Eisenhower's warning against the military industrial complex:
https://youtu.be/Gg-jvHynP9Y?si=ac60dD02z3xsG7b5
War is a Racket by Smedley Butler:
https://www.heritage-history.com/site/hclass/secret_societies/ebooks/pdf/butler_racket.pdf
United Nations General Assembly Walks during Netanyahu's speech:
https://youtu.be/qn84UKkkNVw?si=w8jMogjL8QtisN0v
Neo-Nazis of Ukraine:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/13/ukraine-far-right-national-militia-takes-law-into-own-hands-neo-nazi-links
Ukraine bombing its own in the Donbas since 2014;
https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/07/24/ukraine-unguided-rockets-killing-civilians
Linsey Graham saying the U.S. will fight to the last Ukrainian:
https://tinyurl.com/28qo5fu8
American homelessness growing everywhere:
https://tinyurl.com/2yv48gss
How America deals with homelessness:
https://tinyurl.com/287ttv93
Capitalism has even made trailer parks unaffordable:
https://youtu.be/wkH1dpr-p_4?si=cSDSWr9Hbi_YYtVJ
1% down home loans:
https://tinyurl.com/2cdxf48w
0% down home loans:
https://tinyurl.com/2defh8zv
Tobacco companies used the same tactics they used to keep addicted to cigarettes to keep people addicted to bad foods:
https://tinyurl.com/2cg6xeqa
CEO yelling at employees to stop asking for bonuses while her bonus was millions of dollars
https://youtu.be/tnJPPpLs-aA?si=2yy7NqF4nYetExWd
Who controls America's food supply?:
https://thecounter.org/who-really-owns-american-farmland/
Sharecrop Farming:
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/sharecropping
No free vaccines:
https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/health-news-florida/2020-08-25/rather-than-give-away-its-covid-vaccine-oxford-makes-deal-with-drugmaker
Bill Gates doesn't want to share the vaccine with poor countries:
https://truthout.org/articles/billionaire-bill-gates-says-no-to-sharing-vaccine-recipes-with-poor-countries/
Books:
Solutions: Enough complaining. Let's fix America.