Income inequality and drug war

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

     
 * 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:

Canadian alternative to US trickle-down myth
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Rapidly rising US inequality
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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. '''

U.S. household debt at all time high
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''' [https://www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics/hhdc.html U.S. household debt at all time high. ]  Chart below from page 3 of PDF.'''  2003 to 2017  (4th quarter).  Total Household Debt by Type: 



In jail for being in debt
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 * More Americans are in debt than ever - and some are being jailed for it, ACLU says. By Scott Berson. Feb. 22, 2018.

Reagan, Drug War, Trickle Down Economics
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 * See  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.

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



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%.


 * 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.


 * Reaganism collapses: Tax cuts for rich made Kansas broke — so Republicans raise taxes on poor. April 22, 2015. Raw Story..


 * 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%.

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 * United States Unemployment Rates by President, 1948-2016.



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