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Save the Children:Tax the Rich


Posted: Aug 10, 2013

*See comment below article. This is an old article but it rings true to today's speeches by many people. 

Save the children: Tax the rich

Almost 25 percent of U.S. children are now living in poverty - the largest number since the Great Depression.

Since the current economic crisis began, child poverty has grown by two million to some 16 million youngsters nationally.

According to the Children's Defense Fund's 2010 report, "Children in America lag behind almost all industrialized nations on key child indicators. The United States has the unwanted distinction of being the worst among industrialized nations in relative child poverty, in the gap between rich and poor, in teen birth rates and in child gun violence."

Overall, the country is experiencing the fastest fall from "middle-class" life to poverty in the 51 years since government started counting the poor.

Recently, CBS's 60 Minutes aired a segment on child poverty that served as a powerful reminder that every day millions of American children are facing the harsh realities of homelessness and hunger.

In the segment, reporters sat down with a group of about 30 black, brown and white children and asked them to share their experiences. They eloquently told their stories of what it's like being poor.

Many began to cry as they recounted having to ask their classmates for leftover food at school. One spoke of the shame of having to live in the family car; another spoke about going to a church food bank.

When asked if any had experienced their lights being cut off, almost all the hands went up. The children recounted how they had to do their homework by flashlight and candlelight. Most were living in cheap motels; some lived in family cars.

As the show pointed out, this situation is largely a consequence of over one million people having beenevicted from their homes last year. This year, at least one million more homes will be foreclosed.

60 Minutes didn't deal with the racist aspects of this crisis and how mortgage scams were aimed primarily at black and Latino working families. Yet racism and poverty are intertwined: 25 percent of African Americans live below the poverty line. Presently, 35.7 percent of African American children live in poverty compared to one in five children living in poverty overall. 26.9 percent of Latino households live in poverty compared to 14.6 percent overall. White children, however, are numerically the largest group of children living in such conditions.

Sadly, instead of dealing forthrightly with these problems, the right wing has switched the script. Now the talk is about deficits and taxes when the real issue is jobs and the welfare of families and children.

These problems are rooted in the capitalist exploitation of the working class. They are caused by low wages, the massive export of jobs, and discrimination in hiring.

All of this has been made worse by the 30-year dominance of anti-working class policies of the extreme right, which caused the recent economic crisis.

Working families are poorer because the wealth created by their labor has been expropriated by the richest of the rich.

Record profits and record poverty go hand and hand. Indeed, the reduced buying power of working people because of poverty wages is a big factor in what caused the economic collapse. Today 14.6 percent of all families are living in poverty.

Balancing the books on the backs of poor children, the elderly, the infirm and jobless is morally and politically unacceptable. Trying to destroy unions is not going to save the children. Cutting funds to education, nutrition, and childcare, firing teachers and firefighters is no solution to the crisis.  But that is what the ultra right is doing

The way out of this crisis is to stop blaming the victims and to make the wealthy culprits pay.

It is irresponsible and immoral not to do so. The time has come to tax them.

Tax them for the children

Tax them until it hurts.

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" Does the above sound familiar to you? This article has been brought to you by People's World a/k/a The Communist Party USA.

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Yep - NK

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It certainly is reminiscent of today's speeches by RW extremists. Cut SNAP, cut length of time eligibility for unemployment benefits, and, my favorite, defund "white trash" recipients of social program benefits.

So, how do you feel about the working MTs on this board who are applying for and receiving food stamps to be able to eat?

Its unfortunate that the democrats are doing - nothing to help us

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But that's the way it's always been.

I say save the country - tax the politicians.

Evidently you didn't read the article. - sm

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The dems don't have a "right wing."

"...Sadly, instead of dealing forthrightly with these problems, the RIGHT WING has switched the script. Now the talk is about deficits and taxes when the real issue is jobs and the welfare of families and children.

These problems are rooted in the capitalist exploitation of the working class. They are caused by low wages, the massive export of jobs, and discrimination in hiring.

All of this has been made worse by the 30-year dominance of ANTI-WORKING CLASS POLICIES OF THE EXTREME RIGHT, which caused the recent economic crisis.

Working families are poorer because the wealth created by their labor has been expropriated by the richest of the rich.

Record profits and record poverty go hand and hand. Indeed, the reduced buying power of working people because of poverty wages is a big factor in what caused the economic collapse. Today 14.6 percent of all families are living in poverty.

Balancing the books on the backs of poor children, the elderly, the infirm and jobless is morally and politically unacceptable. Trying to destroy unions is not going to save the children. Cutting funds to education, nutrition, and childcare, firing teachers and firefighters is no solution to the crisis. But that is what the ULTRA RIGHT is doing.

Yup I read the article - nothing to help us
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It's from 2011. I'm talking about today, 2013.

No, of course the dems don't have a right wing. They have a left wing. Same exact thing. No democrats are doing anything to help. You can't put all of the blame on the republicans. The extreme right is the same exact thing as the extreme left. There is no difference.

Until you understand that there is nothing else to say.
Yep, exactly the Communist way as in the article - Truthhurts
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That's exactly what they want. Anti-capitalism is what they stand for....take from the rich BUT they enhance their own pockets, not the poor, not the workers.

Working families under communism never rise above poverty because they aren't allowed to better themselves. They work to better the rulers. No one owns anything. The state owns everything. You don't own your property or anything else.

You really do need to read up on fascism, socialism, and communism.

See these comparisons:

http://www.diffen.com/difference/Communism_vs_Socialism

Then see this link for more of an explanation of all of them:

http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2009/09/15/how-socialism-communism-fascism-and-nazism-work/

As for me, I'd rather live in a society where I can own property and start a business if I want and make profits for myself and whoever else helped me "get where I am today" (shareholders, friends or family who gave me start-up money for my company).

I would rather own a car, a house, have my own garden and food supply and not have to give any of it to the government.

I want to make the decisions about my life, right or wrong, and learn from my mistakes.
Commies, Hurts? :) - Absurd. nm
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x

Guess you didn't get it. The article was by PEOPLE'S WORLD - Truthhurts

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on the COMMUNIST PARTY USA web site. IOW, this is the Communist Party thinking.

Hey, but if you'd rather follow the Communist Party, more power to you.

Of course I got it - NK

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You seem to have a penchant for insulting people's intelligence and directing them to what they need to read and think.

I assume this is your comment: "This is an old article but it rings true to today's speeches by many people." I merely pointed out that the article did, indeed, "ring true to today's speeches by many people," as in RW extremists' speeches.

Is Joe McCarthy one of your historic heroes?

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