@bkcunningham Buffet’s list includes the 400 income tax filers who had the largest incomes of all Americans. If Jeffrey Immelt made it into that rarefied crowd, he’s on the list. But as chairman of General Electric, he probably fell WAY short of Buffet’s list. TThe median income to make the top 400 was $227 million a year, and I do not know of any corporate CEO who makes that sort of money. If your point is that Democrats can be bought by well funded lobbyists then point taken. But Jeffrey Immelt being on the President’s Economic Council is no evidence of that. Would you rather the board be comprised of business failures and paupers?
@plethora There will always be a top 1% no matter how we manage our economy. That is not the issue. I don’t want to make everyoinoe equal, and I don’t think more than a handful fo far left Americans do. The issue is that the incomes of the top 1% have gone up 300% in the last 30 years while their taxes have been cut by more than 50%. The incomes in real terms of the rest of us have stayed just about flat while our taxes have gone up. Income and wealth disparity has now hit levels not seen since just before the Great Depression. And yet the Greedy Oligarch Pig handlers are manipulating their God, Guns, Gays, Christian Taliban, Anti Abortion, hate Muslims and hate Immigrants base to cut their own financial legs out from under themselves for the benefit of the wealthiest 1%. After all, that’s who really funds Republican politics these days.
The politics of division of Americans the GOP is using may make some sense politically. People are afraid in these hard economic times, and fear makes divide and conquer easy, as Hitler so ably demonstrated. It may give the GOP enough votes to further enrich their wealthy handlers. But it is lousy politics for this nation’s future. The GOP may love to wrap themselves in the Flag and carry a Cross, but they are acting as Christian as Jacob Marley and as patriotic as Benedict Arnold.