Snouts in the trough as usual …
By Alan Macleod
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A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies found that, while tens of millions of Americans have lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic, America’s ultra-wealthy elite have seen their net worth surge by $282 billion in just 23 days. This is despite the fact that the economy is expected to contract by 40 percent this quarter. The report also noted that between 1980 and 2020 the tax obligations of America’s billionaires, measured as a percentage of their wealth, decreased by 79 percent. In the last 30 years, U.S. billionaire wealth soared by over 1100 percent while median household wealth increased by barely five percent. In 1990, the total wealth held by America’s billionaire class was $240 billion; today that number stands at $2.95 trillion. Thus, America’s billionaires accrued more wealth in just the past three weeks than they made in total prior…
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THIS IS GOING TO PUSH US IN THE USA BELOW POVERTY:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/openingamerica/
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The plan futuret
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As per Naomi Klein’s the D shock doctrine. In any adversity wealth escalates upwards with the gap between rich and poor growing further apart. No surprises
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No not at all knaapsxtra, not at all.
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speaking of the super-rich ….
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