Income inequality and drug war

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 * ''Share links: control and inequality. See also: Holy War on Drugs, Republican-led mass incarceration.

The drug war is a control tool in the Republican quest for ever more wealth and power at whatever the cost. With income inequality at record levels there is a need for greater control of the population. Through mass incarceration, felon disenfranchisement, gerrymandering, voter registration hurdles, constant surveillance, ever-morphing "enemies", and a war economy. Never-ending religious wars and ground wars in the Middle East, and a war at home called the war on drugs. It is a ruthless racist war on people and neighborhoods. In 1995 Newt Gingrich even proposed the death penalty for importing 2 ounces of cannabis. No lie.


 * Income Inequality Is At The Highest Level In American History. By Bryce Covert. July 1, 2016. ThinkProgress. "Incomes for the 99 percent have only recovered about 60 percent of what they lost. But the rich are doing great. ... They captured more than half of all the income growth in the country."
 * Google News search: student debt.



Top 10% of earners receive 50% of all income:

The drug war is a war on the poor
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 * Reagan's war on cannabis is where the U.S. incarceration nation began.

Chart below is from a Washington Post article on Dec. 29, 2017: ''' [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/29/the-u-s-has-one-of-the-stingiest-minimum-wage-policies-of-any-wealthy-nation "The U.S. has one of the stingiest minimum wage policies of any wealthy nation." ] '''

Chart below from: '''[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/17/opinion/taxes-inequality-charts.html A Tax Plan to Turbocharge Inequality, in 3 Charts. ] ''' Dec. 17, 2017. New York Times.

  below.  2017 Republican tax  and individual mandate  repeal bill.  Yellow is for an average increase in cost  for people in those groups. Higher costs hitting more people each year. ''' Up to incomes of $75,000. '''

Reagan, Drug War, Trickle Down Economics
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 * See Trickle-down economics.

Trickle-down Reaganomics, a child's course in economics.



The drug war is part of the Republican war on the poor and middle class. See infographic. Along with other mass incarceration, student debt, disenfranchisement, and wealth inequality. Record high in the Dow, but median wage remains stagnant. . Republicans block cannabis legislation and minimum wage increases. Real (inflation-adjusted) wages for most Americans have remained stagnant for decades. Note also the incredible transfer of wealth from the bottom 90% to the top 0.1%.
 * Award-Winning Documentary: Drug War Continues to Target the Poor. By Charlotte Dean. 4 Nov 2013.
 * The War on Drugs is a War on Minorities and the Poor. By Erik Kain. 28 June 2011. Forbes.
 * Decriminalizing Poverty. America doesn't have a drug problem. It has a poverty problem. 9 Dec 2010. The Nation.
 * The War on Drugs and the New Jim Crow. By Michelle Alexander. Spring 2010.
 * 2014: UK conservatives also like drug war, and taxing, underpaying, and pillaging the poor and middle class.

See charts:
 * U.S. Household Incomes: A 46-Year Perspective. September 17, 2014 by Doug Short.
 * US wealth inequality - top 0.1% worth as much as the bottom 90%. By Angela Monaghan. 13 Nov 2014. The Guardian.


 * Reagan's war on cannabis is where the U.S. incarceration nation began.
 * Reaganism collapses: Tax cuts for rich made Kansas broke — so Republicans raise taxes on poor. April 22, 2015. Raw Story..




 * See also: Reagan's war on cannabis. And Trickle-down economics.

Reagan's war on cannabis is where the U.S. incarceration nation began. US Republicans block full marijuana legalization since cannabis reform is the means to ending the Drug War, which is the key to mass incarceration and mass control.
 * The Great American Hustle: How The One Percent Mauled The Middle Class.
 * Reaganism collapses: Tax cuts for rich made Kansas broke — so Republicans raise taxes on poor. April 22, 2015. Raw Story.
 * Incredible transfer of wealth from the bottom 90% to the top 0.1%.
 * Oxfam report says half of global wealth held by the 1%.
 * Black-White Wealth Gap at 24-Year High. See Race, ethnicity, drug war. .



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