How Poor and Middle Class Wage Earners Subsidize the Wealthy 1%

You pay sales taxes on every eligible purchase; most, every day, purchases are taxed.  The less you earn the higher the percentage of your income is consumed by sales taxes.

You own, or are purchasing, a home (condo, house, adu, etc...) it's not cash unless you sell it, but you pay property taxes on it, every year.

If you own, or are buying, a car (truck, etc...) it's not cash unless you sell it, but you pay taxes on it every year.

If you own stock, equity, in any company...  it's not cash unless you sell it; there are no taxes on that stock till you sell it.

None!

Yet, if you borrow money, up to the entire market value of that stock, there's still no taxes; even as you're cashing in!  

This is how wealthy people accumulate and spend enormous amounts of money with out ever having to pay taxes.  

This, and thousands more pages of tax law, is how poor and middle class people subsidize the rich here in the United States of America.

These are the 1% that own the Republican criminal syndicate (RCS).  Unlike Musk, they hide behind the curtain and pull the strings that control the RCS; control the grifting, pathological liar that was 45, and is now, the 47th president of these United States of America.

45 should have been impeached, convicted and banned from holding any public office, ever again.  See: Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.  The self-centered, cowards of the RCS, that should have done this, are terrified of being swept out of office by primary opponents, funded by the money of the wealthy oligarchs hiding behind the curtains; puppet masters of the RCS.

If you voted for these two administrations (45 & 47) then you are the gullible fools that the 1% and the RCS depend upon; conned gratulations!

FAFO...

The elections of 2024 created chaos of enormous proportions in the US government, and caused great anxiety amongst many other nations (especially those that had considered the USA an ally) around the world.  The results happened because, statistically, 9 million fewer people voted in 2024, when compared to the turn out for the 2020 Presidential elections.

Too many Democrats are pointing at one another, in circular firing squad fashion, to assign blame...  Other democrats are saying that we should change this, that or another thing.

Bull Shit!

Three things need to be done, by as close to everybody, as close to all of the time as is possible:  Register (double check) to vote; vote in as close to every election as you can; communicate with your elected officials (courteously, briefly and often).

The Democratic party ain't perfect, because perfect is an unattainable, stretch goal; there has never been anything that could not be improved. The Democrats are the, “big tent,” party in which no one will ever completely agree with anyone else; does not mean tear it down...  Does mean agree, or agree to disagree, and move on.

Major legislation was passed during the Biden administration...

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/01/1143149435/despite-infighting-its-been-a-surprisingly-productive-2-years-for-democrats  

This would have been left in capable hands, to be sustained and improved upon, by a Harris/Walz administration.

There was significant progress in the Biden administration via executive orders...

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/20/politics/biden-laws-passed-priorities-to-get-done-executive-orders/index.html   

This, too, would have fared productively in a Harris/Walz administration.

Then there was the comparison twixt the 45 administration and the Biden administration...

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/04/07/trump-vs-biden-who-got-more-done-on-legislation/   

The US economy was predicted to go into recession after Covid...  It did no such thing.  The US economy recovered fastest amongst the advanced economies of the world; was the envy of all those other national economies.

In point of fact President Bill Clinton mentioned, during his speech at the 2024 Democratic convention, that since the fall of the Soviet Union, in 1989, 51 million jobs have been created in the USA. 50 million were created during Democratic administrations; 1 million jobs created during Republican administrations.  This can be confirmed via: verify.com; Snopes/MSN.com; Politifact.com; ABC News online; gigafact.org; etc...

The gang that can't think straight (when they bother to try), headed by merde l'orange and the DOGEbag incels, is the current administration thanks to almost 10 million voters who couldn't be bothered to show up and vote.  The mess you've created will get cleaned up by those of us who do, almost always show up, at an unfortunately great cost.

FU!

Civil War II Will Be Fought in the Courts, Nationwide.

State and federal legislators: Democrat, Independent and RINO (because they wouldn't join the Republican move to a criminal syndicate);

For God's sake, get off your hands!

45 incited insurrection and enough Republican (in their criminal syndicate) Representatives and Senators turned a blind eye, aiding and abetting insurrection, that we now have merde l'orange 47.  All the above are eligible for Section 3 of the 14th Amendment's boot out of any, and all, public offices; forever.

Then start the prosecutions based on: Mueller, Smith, Senate Intel and House January 6th committees' reports; GA, AZ, etc... election certification chicanery; stopping CO and ME from controlling access to their own state, 2024 ballots; Review Citizens United and Presidential immunity SCOTUS decisions; forensic auditing of the million dollar (to quarter billion dollar), dark money donors (including: Russian, American and other kleptogarchs) to the Republican criminal syndicate; etc...

There is an enormous amount of, alleged, illegal activity to bring to trial.  Spread the word:

Get Busy, Damn It!!!

Ralph Nader > In the Public Interest > Stay Silent and Stay Powerless Against Trump’s Tyranny

Democratic Party Leaders – Get Tough and Hold Regular Unofficial Congressional Hearings by and for the People!

Mar 16, 2025

Copied, without permission, from Ralph Nader’s official website…

By Ralph Nader

March 14, 2025

There are reasons why influential or knowledgeable Americans are staying silent as the worsening fascist dictatorship of the Trumpsters and Musketeers gets more entrenched by the day. Most of these reasons are simple cover for cowardice.

Start with the once-powerful Bush family dynasty. They despise Trump as he does them. Rich and comfortable George W. Bush is very proud of his Administration’s funding of AIDS medicines saving lives in Africa and elsewhere. Trump, driven by vengeance and megalomania, moved immediately to dismantle this program. Immediate harm commenced to millions of victims in Africa and elsewhere who are reliant on this U.S. assistance (including programs to lessen the health toll on people afflicted by tuberculosis and malaria).

Not a peep from George W. Bush, preoccupied with his landscape painting and perhaps occasional pangs of guilt from his butchery in Iraq. His signal program is going down in flames and he keeps his mouth shut, as he has largely done since the upstart loudmouth Trump ended the Bush family’s power over the Republican Party.

Then there are the Clintons and Obama. They are very rich, and have no political aspirations. Yet, though horrified by what they see Trump doing to the government and its domestic social safety net services they once ruled, mum’s the word.

What are these politicians afraid of as they watch the overthrow of our government and the oncoming police state? Trump, after all, was not elected to become a dictator—declaring war on the American people with his firings and smashing of critical “people’s programs” that benefit liberals and conservatives, red state and blue state residents alike.

Do they fear being discomforted by Trump/Musk unleashing hate and threats against them, and getting tarred by Trump’s tirades and violent incitations? No excuses. Regard for our country must take precedence to help galvanize their own constituencies to resist tyranny and fight for Democracy.

What about Kamala Harris — the hapless loser to Trump in November’s presidential election? She must think she has something to say on behalf of the 75 million people who voted for her or against Trump. Silence! She is perfect bait for Trump’s intimidation tactics. She is afraid to tangle with Trump despite his declining polls, rising inflation, the falling stock market and anti-people budget slashing which is harming her supporters and Trump voters’ economic wellbeing, health and safety.

This phenomenon of going dark is widespread. Regulators and prosecutors who were either fired or quit in advance have not risen to defend their own agencies and departments, if only to elevate the morale of those civil servants remaining behind and under siege.

Why aren’t we hearing from Gary Gensler, former head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), now being dismantled, especially since the SEC is dropping his cases against alleged cryptocurrency crooks?

Why aren’t we hearing much more (she wrote one op-ed) from Samantha Power, the former head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under Biden, whose life-saving agency is literally being illegally closed down, but for pending court challenges?

Why aren’t we hearing from Michael Regan, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under Biden about saboteur Lee Zeldin, Trump’s head of EPA, who is now giving green lights to lethal polluters and other environmental destructions?

These and many other former government officials all have their own circles – in some cases, millions of people – who need to hear from them.

They can take some courage of the seven former I.R.S. Commissioners — from Republican and Democratic Administrations — who condemned slicing the I.R.S staff in half and aiding and abetting big time tax evasion by the undertaxed super-rich and giant corporations. I am told that they would be eager to testify, should the Democrats in Congress have the energy to hold unofficial hearings as ranking members of the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committees.

Banding together is one way of reducing the fear factor. After Trump purged the career military at the Pentagon to put his own “yes men” at the top, five former Secretaries of Defense, who served under both Democratic and Republican presidents, sent a letter to Congress denouncing Trump’s firing of senior military officers and requesting “immediate” House and Senate hearings to “assess the national security implications of Mr. Trump’s dismissals.” Not a chance by the GOP majority there. But they could ask the Democrats to hold UNOFFICIAL HEARINGS as ranking members of the Armed Services Committees!

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker can be one of the prime witnesses at these hearings – he has no fear of speaking his mind against the Trumpsters.

On March 6, 2025, the Washington Bureau Chief of the New York Times, Elisabeth Bumiller, put her rare byline on an urgent report titled, “‘People Are Going Silent’: Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves.”

She writes: “The silence grows louder every day. Fired federal workers who are worried about losing their homes ask not to be quoted by name. University presidents [one exception is Wesleyan University President Michael Roth] fearing that millions of dollars in federal funding could disappear are holding their fire. Chief executives alarmed by tariffs that could hurt their businesses are on mute.”

To be sure, government employees and other unions are speaking out and suing in federal court. So are national citizen groups like Public Citizen and the Center for Constitutional Rights, though hampered in alerting large audiences by newspapers like the Times rarely reporting their initiatives.

Yes, Ms. Bumiller, pay attention to that aspect of your responsibility. Moreover, the Times’ editorial page (op-ed and editorials) are not adequately reflecting the urgency of her reporting. Nor are her reporters covering the informed outspokenness and actions of civic organizations.

Don’t self-censoring people know that they are helping the Trumpian dread, threat and fear machine get worse? Study Germany and Italy in the nineteen thirties.

The Trump/Musk lawless, cruel, arrogant, dictatorial regime is in our White House. Their police state infrastructure is in place. 

Silence is complicity!

From: The official website of Ralph Nader.


 

Raise the Minimum Wage...

To a living wage, and grow the economy.

If you bump up the minimum wage to an actual, living wage the businesses it effects will try to make it look devastating.  

First, businesses will create ever changing work schedules...  Any business open and operating on a regular, recurring schedule, week to week, should be required to have a regular, recurring work schedule for all their employees.  

Business will cut back on an individual employees work hours as a perceived form of punishment. This will only knee cap the business, because they'll still need the same number of total hours worked to support the normal volume of activity in the store or office.  

These dramatic overreactions will bite businesses in the butt, because they still need to satisfy, or lose, customers.  

When more people can afford to spend money into the economy, the economy will grow and thrive.  There's few, to no, places where one can live in modest comfort with a wage of less than $22 an hour; for at least 40 hours a week.

Business leaders, trying desperately hard to look stupid, will say even the poorest Americans can afford a car. Well, there are very few places in the USA that have sufficient public transit, so folks must have a car to get to work.  Second, most (40% of American families: epi.org; UnitedforALICE.org) are barely making ends meet; can't afford $400 for car maintenance...  Can't afford preventative, standard or emergency, medical care costs either.

The USA is the only OECD country where one can be bankrupted by medical expenses.

When more folks can afford to spend money back into the economy, while saving and investing, the economy will grow and thrive; period.  Only the narcissists and megalomaniacs will be unhappy.

The Road Back From Oligarchy to Democracy...

 The road back from the current oligarchy in the USA should start with the removal of government officials who broke their oath of office to allow 45 to be in the elections of 2024; to become 47.

These officials, Congressional and SCOTUS, paved the way for what should have been impossible; cleared the road for the grifter in chief, and the oligarchs behind the curtain, to move toward an authoritarian United States.

Any current congressional Republicans, or Democrats who voted against both impeachments of 45 should be 14/3 removed from office immediately.

Those who voted against impeachment or conviction for the insurrection of 6 January 2021 should definitely be shown the exit; should already be on the streets.  

SCOTUS justices that expedited the case that blocked CO & ME from exercising their 14/3 authority, to remove 45 from their 2024 primary ballots, are guilty of aiding and abetting insurrection; should be escorted out of office permanently.

The USA, and the rest of the world, deserve better than this...  We need to be able to watch as the USA corrects a serious, "47," mistake. 

 

 

Curbing Electricity Demand

 Moderating Demands on the Electric Grid...

Multiple corporate entities are asking for enormous increases in electricity generation and distribution on the public, municipal, power grid that supplies the entire United States with electricity, in support of data centers that will fulfill processing power requirements for AI and Kleptocurrency.

No.  Don't build it, at least, not yet.

IBM has made advances in fiber interconnectivity, within AI's data centers, that will significantly reduce the overall need for electricity...  This, and other operating efficiencies that are in the pipeline, will reduce the need for said massive increases in electricity production and distribution.  Full fledged power development for huge data centers needs to be restricted till technology advances do, what they have always done, reduce the size and power requirements of the instruments used in this, the information age.

Kleptocurrency (a.k.a., cryptocurrency; not by me) is also asking for others to provide them with enormous amounts of new electric power generation and distribution.

No! Not ever.

Kleptocurrency is designed to evade the reporting and regulatory environs that are required for actual currency (a.k.a., here as: legal tender).  The only function that kleptocurrency serves is criminal, and therefore should not be allowed to draw power from public, municipal grids; should not be allowed to create it's own power via nuclear means and methods.

Converting the entire country and, indeed, the whole world, to the use of renewable electricity is already taxing the facilities of said power generation and distribution physical plant.  

Don't add more unjustifiable stress.