2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDems & Repubs Planning Corporate Giveaway - where do you think Clinton stands?
Ya think a moderator will bring this up at the next debate? Didn't think so.
Why havent voters heard about this from candidates? Because Republicans and Democrats both know it would make angry voters even angrier.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren, as she often does, found the right words to describe this transaction. She called it a giant wet kiss for the tax dodgers. Warren and Senator Sanders have repeatedly charged that the system is rigged. Whats particularly outrageous about this new rigging of the tax code is that even though the politicians are engineering it in the midst of a presidential election, most voters dont have a clue.
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They say this is the year of rebellion. I hope its only the beginning. There is the promising possibility that this time, voters will instruct the powerful rather than the other way around. People are learning they can do more than listen.
Read more about this disgusting TAX SUBSIDY FOR CORPORATIONS here:
http://www.thenation.com/article/democrats-and-republicans-are-quietly-planning-a-corporate-giveaway-to-the-tune-of-400-billion/
djean111
(14,255 posts)Is that a rhetorical question?
Nanjeanne
(4,975 posts)SamKnause
(13,110 posts)If the outcome was intended to enrich the power elites, it worked perfectly.
Insanity.
Nanjeanne
(4,975 posts)It's sickening - and the establishment politics as usual makes me
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)We have no reliable main stream media.
(We never see;
Amy Goodman
Juan Gonzalez
Matt Taibbi
Jeremy Scahill
Greg Palast
Michael Moore
moderating debates.)
Just a short list of people I trust with the truth.
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)They're two of the standouts at The Real News Network
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)I left many off my list.
At one time I had them all listed, but I didn't save a copy.
I even had some on my list that were comedians;
Jon Stewart
John Oliver
Stephen Colbert
They have done an outstanding job of getting millennials interested
in politics.
They have done some outstanding hit pieces.
John Oliver is still kicking ass over on HBO, serious ass !!!
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)to see Amy Goodman moderate ANY debate, or Greg Palast for that matter.
Nanjeanne
(4,975 posts)think
(11,641 posts)fredamae
(4,458 posts)if I had anywhere from $500.00 to $2700.00 to maybe get a Chance to.
Mufaddal
(1,021 posts)Until then we'll just have to wait.