Michael Graetz’s new book explains how clever marketing duped America into shoveling more tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations.
The primary problem in a deeply unequal democracy will never be the influence we allow the wealthy to bring to bear on our politics. The primary problem remains concentrated wealth itself, the huge gap between the wealthy and everyone else.
Inherited wealth and crony capitalism have created an aristocratic class that undermines social mobility and democracy
At its best, sensible policies about how land is used, transferred, and owned can make it possible for young people to farm with dignity, a living wage, and a future. It can help poor people stop being poor. It can let young farmers who want to farm break through the barriers to entry. It can provide a secure retirement for America’s older farmers. It can happen and should happen in countries as democratic and as rich as the United States.
In this movie, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich uses humor and a wide array of facts to explain how the massive consolidation of wealth by a precious few threatens the viability of the American workforce and the foundation of democracy itself. Now opening: check for local listing.
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