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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe were once a nation to be envied. We are now a nation to be pitied.



RainCaster
(12,718 posts)We are shunned. It affects everything.
bdamomma
(68,112 posts)look at how the tourism numbers are going down.
CousinIT
(11,270 posts)dem4decades
(12,693 posts)A nation to be remembered as once almost great.
Celerity
(49,498 posts)bdamomma
(68,112 posts)time to do this:
Iamscrewed
(161 posts)Study the past tax structure-compared to economy then to today. This isn't fucking rocket science. The sleeping idiot's need to be woken up before we're wading through the stinking decomposing bodies.
CousinIT
(11,270 posts)No taxes, only tariffs. Which were paid for by the dirt poor "everyone else" who weren't the wealthy robber barons. The wealth robber barons ran the country, industry, everything -- and everyone else was dirt poor and worked 7 days/week (no labor laws and no "social safety net" - everyone else had no life and no wealth - just slavery to support the robber barons.
That's why he loves that age. He wants to return us to THAT.
Demobrat
(10,143 posts)Cha
(309,991 posts)of Taxes Are Unamerican
TY!
FakeNoose
(37,232 posts)Even so, they want to cheat Uncle Sam (and the rest of us) without paying for their ample benefits.
Fla Dem
(26,570 posts)red dog 1
(30,754 posts)Love the Ferlinghetti quote, and that billboard needs to be put up all over America...it's perfect!
Upthevibe
(9,490 posts)elocs
(24,128 posts)meaning enough of our electorate to vote Trump into the presidency and enough to do it again in the future. Were I them, I wouldn't trust the people of America either not to do it again.