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debsy

(530 posts)
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 11:57 AM Jan 2019

Literally, billionaires could chip in and have the 5.7 billion dollars for the immoral wall...

... in less than 3 days.

A 'Fundamentally Inhuman' Economy: 26 Billionaires Own as Much as World's 3.8 Billion Poorest People
While the wealth of billionaires increased by $900 billion last year, or $2.5 billion a day, latest Oxfam report on inequality shows "this bonanza has not been felt by the poorest half of the world, which saw its wealth decline by 11 percent."


[link:https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/21/fundamentally-inhuman-economy-26-billionaires-own-much-worlds-38-billion-poorest|]

We need to be paying attention to who is benefitting from the shutdown. I'm sure there is plenty of evidence of the billionaire "class" being the ones who gain the most while the rest of us transfer more of what little we have directly into their yacht fuel tanks.

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Literally, billionaires could chip in and have the 5.7 billion dollars for the immoral wall... (Original Post) debsy Jan 2019 OP
The media doesn't seen interested in mentioning it, but the $5.7 billion grumpyduck Jan 2019 #1
+1. meadowlander Jan 2019 #5
i can see how that can happen in this current news environment! debsy Jan 2019 #2
The Trump tax cuts are going to balloon the national debt. $5.7b is a drop in the ocean. Doodley Jan 2019 #3
National debt is 107% of per capita income ProudLib72 Jan 2019 #4

grumpyduck

(6,232 posts)
1. The media doesn't seen interested in mentioning it, but the $5.7 billion
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 12:18 PM
Jan 2019

is only a down payment. I posted about this yesterday, but the post quickly got buried in the avalanche of new OPs.

meadowlander

(4,394 posts)
5. +1.
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 01:31 PM
Jan 2019

John Oliver got a contractor who estimated at least 25 billion to build it and then yearly maintenance costs in the order of 3-4 billion a year.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
4. National debt is 107% of per capita income
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 01:29 PM
Jan 2019

By "Be Best" standards, we should be able to increase that to an even 110% with tax cuts.

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