Inconsistencies
In my “Hello, World” post I posed the question “Was America ever great?” because President Agent Orange technically poised it through the duration of his campaign by promising that he would “Make America Great Again”. Because he finally got around to giving his answer to the question during an interview with the New York Times, I’m going to deconstruct certain parts of a time period that so many Americans have a hard on for (the ’50s).
Sidebar: I know what you’re thinking. *She’s gonna go for the obvious race/gender card kill* But you’re wrong so relax!
Apparently “When America Was ‘Great,’ Taxes Were High, Unions Were Strong, and Government Was Big”. Now neither of these three sound like anything a Republican in this day and age (or any day and age) would want now does it? The rate of tax in 1954 for top earners was 70%, which is much higher than it is today. Odd, because Trump’s current plan is to cut taxes for the wealthy which will effectively reduce the federal tax revenue by $6.2 trillion. Now if Trump and his Trumpeters agree that America was in an economic boom in the ’50s and that this is one of the eras he would like to return to, why would many of his current plans be conflicting the policies and programs that supposedly made the ’50s so great?
OOH OOH OOH I KNOW I KNOW PICK ME!
What is…He’s an egotistical liar who could give less than a shit about helping the middle class for 500 Alex?
I’m rich cause I just won Jeopardy, guess I can stop writing this article now who needs an education right? (Alternative Fact)
Tony Nitti (contributor for Forbes) breaks down Trump’s tax plan and he uses the term “trickling” when concluding his article detailing the plans, because it’s essentially what Hillary Clinton called his plan as well” “Trumped Up Trickle Down Economics”. We know he’s not the first to try this to try to give more money to the richest people in the country using the lie that it will cause business owners to expand, creating jobs, blah blah blah. Guess what? It hasn’t worked and it’s clearly not going to any time soon, the wealth gap in America is as big as it ever has been.
Breakdown of America’s wealth distribution:
Top 10 % of wealthiest people = own 76% of all wealth
People in 51st to 90th percentiles = own less than a quarter
Bottom 50% = own 1%
My point is that he clearly can’t think that this time period was all that great. He doesn’t care that the middle class was doing better during those times or that most (white men) Americans had a job back then; he is doing what rich white men have been doing since the beginning of time. Pitting poor white people and people of color (the people who do not own 10% of the wealth) against each other works wonderfully for the powerful elite because it takes the blame off of them. When unfortunately that’s exactly where it should be. The people who are in charge have let this wealth gap grow to extreme proportions and until people are ready to join forces and fight these leeches together, we’ll continue to be open to their deception.
