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 News. Sources. GMM Facebook. Vote for cannabis! [21]. Ballotpedia: marijuana and minimum wage. US minimum wage has 35% less buying power than in 1969. [22]. ‘A Tale of 2 recessions’: Rich Americans get richer. Bottom half struggles. [23][24][25][26]. 2022 Global Cannabis March and 420 map. Event links: 2022 talk. & Main talk. 30 July 2021: Louisiana makes history with new law decriminalizing marijuana Aug 1.
  See source and comments. 19 July 2021: Marijuana no longer seized at airport checkpoints in New York state. 7 July 2021: Nevada Declares Marijuana Not Performance Enhancing—Legalizes Cannabis Use For MMA Athletes. "The Nevada state Athletic Commission voted Wednesday to lift its longtime ban on athletes using marijuana, opening the door for boxers and mixed-martial artists competing on the sport’s biggest stage to freely and openly use cannabis."   2 July: Seth Rogen, Other Celebrities Denounce Sha’Carri Richardson’s Olympics Suspension: ‘If Weed Made You Fast, I’d Be FloJo’. Thinking that’s rooted in hatred. [27][28][29].   22 and 29 May 2021: Grenoble and Paris, France. CannaParade and Marche Mondiale du Cannabis. World Cannabis March. [30][31][32][33][34].   14 May 2021: The total wealth of billionaires worldwide rose to $13 trillion in 12 months. It was at $5 trillion. Wealth inequality at levels not seen since just before the Great Depression. Republican tax cuts for the rich. Record low inflation-adjusted US federal minimum wage. 
1 May 2021: Shoutwiki: New York City. See 2021 section. Cannabis Parade and Rally. 420 links too. 29 Apr 2021: He Fought for Decades to Make Marijuana Legal. Now What?. By Colin Moynihan. About Dana Beal. From New York Times.   April 20. AOC and Earl Blumenauer wore pot leaf masks at the Capitol.
23 Apr 2021: Five States Where Republicans Are Trying to Block Marijuana Legalization.   15 Apr 2021: Nationwide Poll: More Americans Than Ever Before (69%) Say That Marijuana Should Be Legal.
  9 Apr 2021: Nikki Fried: Florida Republicans declare war on medical marijuana | Opinion. "House Bill 1455, put forward by [Republican] Representative Roach (ironic, right?), declares war on Florida’s medical marijuana program and patients."
New York City. Looks like we legalized marijuana just in time:   28 Mar 2021: Marijuana takes center stage in New Mexico special session. Republicans oppose social and economic justice issues.  26 Mar 2021: France launches 2-year experiment with medical marijuana.   24 Mar 2021: 68% of Voters Favor a Public Health Insurance Option. 55% support Medicare for All.
14 Mar: Stacey Abrams calls Republican efforts to restrict voting in Georgia ‘Jim Crow in a suit’.
27 Feb 2021: Virginia joins 15 other states in legalizing marijuana "The House passed the measure in a 48-43 vote, and the Senate approved it in a 20-19 vote. Not a single Republican [dumbasses!] voted for the bill in either chamber."   25 Feb 2021: Poll Shows Majority Of Americans Support $15 Minimum Wage.   20 Feb: India’s love-hate relationship with cannabis. [50].
9 Feb 2021: Bernie Sanders Clears Path in Congress to Raise Minimum Wage. [55][56][57]. 6 Feb 2021: Virginia Lawmakers Pass Marijuana Legalization Bills. The Democrat governor is expected to sign it.
  28 Jan 2021: Rise in Storefront Marijuana Dispensaries Associated with Declines in Opioid-Related Deaths. [61][62].
24 Jan 2021: 14 States Where Marijuana Remains Entirely Illegal. "These 14 states all either currently have Republican leadership or have often leaned red in past elections. Furthermore, only three of these 14 states (Idaho, Nebraska, and Wyoming) use the initiative and referendum process."
22 Jan 2021: Op-ed: Forgiving student debt will help senior citizens, too. Senators Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren See comments. "Student debt isn't just crushing our kids. 6.3 million borrowers 50-64 and nearly a million over 65 are still paying for a loved one’s education or their own."   17 Jan 2021: France launches public consultation on legalising cannabis. "In 2016, 41 percent of French people aged 15 to 64 had consumed it at least once – compared to the European average of 18.9 percent." 16 Jan 2021: The Republican Healthcare Plan. You die. ~~>>   16 Jan 2021: National Rifle Association files for bankruptcy. See also: Republican-NRA-led drug war, mandatory minimum sentences, and handguns. And: Canada's murder rate is 1/3 the US rate. Handguns per household by country. Households with handguns: Canada: 3%. USA: 22%. And Canada does not have the NRA's drug war. Wikipedia: Percent of households with guns by country.
13 Jan 2021: Virginia's Democratic Governor Unveils Bill To Legalize Marijuana As Democratic Lawmakers Schedule First Hearing. Legislators plan to move quickly to advance it.
12 Jan 2021: Mexico. After 3-year delay, medical marijuana will be legal as of Jan 13, 2021. 10 Jan 2021: Call for UK prisons to trial free cannabis to see if it cuts drug deaths.
Republicans have declared War on the Middle Class. 22 Oct 2019: Average French households 'more wealthy than Americans and Germans', new study reveals. See median-wealth chart. See graphic below about how Trump Republicans transferred wealth from average American households to the rich.  Trump signed tax law that gave 83% of benefits to the top 1%.  Germany has a much lower murder rate than the USA. Also, Germany has better health indicators, and its healthcare cost per person is half US cost (all costs, public and private).  US Republicans Voted Often to Kill Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [68][69][70]. Medicare spends less than 2 percent on bureaucracy. 1.4% to be exact. See chart. We need Medicare for All. Nearly a third of our health care dollars go to something other than health care. See also: See: More News. And: Cannabis is safer. CannabisVoter.info - Click your state to see which anti-cannabis Republicans to vote out. Vote out most Republicans and their cannabis war. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Henrik Vanger: "Isn't interesting how fascists always steal the word 'freedom'?" Real democracy is ranked-choice voting (instant-runoff). And: Remove Presidential veto power. This news feed may have long lapses. Full site / Mobile. To Top or End. Click Full site for site navigation links at top. Mobile has three-line hamburger menu. See News. See 2022. |
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- 1 Table top
- 2 Top
- 3 2020
- 4 2019
- 5 2018
- 6 2017
- 7 2016
- 8 2015
- 9 2014
- 10 2013
- 11 2012 May. U.S. adults
- 12 2012 May. Likely U.S. voters
- 13 2010 July. U.S. adults
- 14 2009 December. U.S. voters
- 15 2009 April. U.S. adults
- 16 2008 US presidential election
- 17 Site navigation
- 18 Cannabis is safer.
- 19 Nixon's racist drug war
- 20 Today's far-right Republicans
- 21 GOP taxes screw middle class
- 22 Republican filibuster equals
- 22.1 The forever drug war
- 22.2 High US taxes on poor
- 22.3 And on US middle class
- 22.4 US voter suppression
- 22.5 Low US minimum wage
- 22.6 High wealth inequality
- 22.7 High income inequality
- 22.8 High household debt
- 22.9 High US medical debt
- 22.10 High student loan debt
- 22.11 Stagnant US wages
- 22.12 No universal healthcare
- 23 Single payer costs less
- 24 Portugal's drug decrim equals
- 25 100 drug overdoses yearly.
- 26 Versus 93,000 overdoses in US
- 27 President Eisenhower. 1953:
- 28 His 91% top marginal tax rate
- 29 Equaled prosperity for more.
- 30 Republican President Lincoln
- 31 Created first progressive
- 32 US federal income tax.
- 33 Thomas Paine on the poor
- 34 Overpopulation = Warming
- 35 Categories
- Share link: polls. This article was written by Timeshifter. See also: Vote out most Republicans.
Polls before and after the first Global Marijuana March in May 1999. Global marches, rallies, and medical cannabis activism overcame the propaganda that massively escalated with
Reagan's war on cannabis.
It is sometimes difficult to get national and international media to cover the Global Marijuana March. But there is a lot of media coverage locally in many cities, including TV coverage. Many times even with just a few marchers. It really matters because it normalizes cannabis users in people's minds. "Oh, it is those yearly marijuana marchers again. No big deal." So more and more people get used to the idea, and go to the next steps of passive and active decriminalization. Such as looking the other way, limited legalization of possession, and eventually full legalization in some places. Kind of like how laws against interracial couples and marriage were ignored. Osmosis. See the large crowd shots worldwide.
Register and vote for cannabis.
2020
9 Nov 2020: Support for Legal Marijuana Inches Up to New High of 68%. From Gallup Poll.
2019
19 Apr 2019: Support for marijuana legalization hits new high (65%), CBS News poll finds.
2018
22 Oct 2018: 2 in 3 Americans (66%) Support Legalizing Recreational Marijuana. [72]. By Gallup Poll.
26 Apr 2018: Poll: Support for legal marijuana hits all-time high (63%). By Max Greenwood. The Hill. Quinnipiac University poll. "Support for legalization hit 63 percent in the survey — the highest level of support recorded by a Quinnipiac poll".
2017
As of late 2017 polling even Republicans support recreational marijuana legalization. [73]. But not Republican politicians. CannabisVoter.info - Click on your state to determine which anti-cannabis Republicans to vote out of office.
| From early 2017: There’s Only One Demographic That Still Thinks Marijuana Should Be Illegal. Republicans. See: Quinnipiac poll done Feb. 16-21, 2017. And: Pew Research poll results from September 2016. |
- March 29, 2017 article: Public support for marijuana legalization surged in 2016. By Christopher Ingraham. Washington Post. Timeline of polling from 1973 to 2016 by General Social Survey, the gold standard for public opinion research. Note the surge of support for legalization starting around 2005. Denver voted to legalize in 2005, the first major US city to legalize small amounts of marijuana.
- Pro-pot arguments fly higher with likely voters. March 8, 2017 Science Daily. More info: [74] [75].
- Quinnipiac poll: 71% oppose enforcing federal marijuana laws in states where the drug is legal. February 25, 2017 article.
2016
For the first time more Australians support legalizing pot than oppose.
- Surge in support to decriminalise marijuana, multi-decade survey finds. By Heath Aston. December 25 2016. The Sydney Morning Herald.
The polls that matter the most are elections.
US states that have legalized as of the Nov. 8, 2016 election:
| States that have legalized. |
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| Current medical marijuana states, with map. And: Clickable MPP map. And: Clickable NORML map. |
2015
See Reagan's war on cannabis. Above timeline is adapted from one of the charts in this article:
| Latest Gallup Poll Shows Only 2-in-5 Americans Oppose Marijuana Legalization. By Russ Belville. October 21, 2015. |
- See also: inmystride.blogspot.com and Canadian opinion poll results.
2014
- U.S.: New Poll Shows Majority of Americans Support Marijuana Legalization. 28 Jan 2014. Hemp News. From the article:
Americans ages 18 to 34 favor marijuana legalization by a huge 49-point margin -- almost three of every four in this age group expressed support. Among those aged 35 to 49, just more than half said they support legalization, compared to 49 percent of those 50 to 64, reports Rebecca Ballhaus at the Wall Street Journal. Those over 65 oppose it, 59 percent to 38 percent.
2013
- In U.S., 38% Have Tried Marijuana, Little Changed Since '80s. 2 Aug 2013, by Lydia Saad. Gallup Politics.
2012 May. U.S. adults
- Americans Support Legalizing Marijuana: New Poll - Toke of the Town.
- Americans Decry War on Drugs, Support Legalizing Marijuana. Angus Reid Public Opinion.
"Across the country, 52 per cent of Americans support the legalization of marijuana, while 44 per cent oppose it. Majorities of men (60%), Independents (57%) and Democrats (54%) would like to see marijuana legalized. Women (45%), respondents over the age of 55 (48%) and Republicans (43%) are not as supportive of legalization. In four nationwide surveys conducted by Angus Reid Public Opinion on the topic of marijuana legalization since 2009, support has always surpassed the 50 per cent mark in the United States, and opposition has not reached 45 per cent."
"Methodology: From May 29 to May 30, 2012, Angus Reid Public Opinion conducted an online survey among 1,017 American adults who are Springboard America panelists. The margin of error—which measures sampling variability—is +/- 3.1%. The results have been statistically weighted according to the most current education, age, gender and region Census data to ensure a sample representative of the entire adult population of the United States. Discrepancies in or between totals are due to rounding."
2012 May. Likely U.S. voters
- 56% Favor Legalizing, Regulating Marijuana - Rasmussen Reports. From the article: "A new national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows that 56% favor legalizing and regulating marijuana in a similar manner to the way alcohol and tobacco cigarettes are regulated. Thirty-six percent (36%) are opposed to such a legalizing and regulating pot."
2010 July. U.S. adults
Rasmussen poll. Source. 43% say marijuana should be legalized, and 42% disagree. While half of Democrats (51%) support legalizing marijuana, 62% of Republicans are opposed. Voters not affiliated with either major political party lean toward legalization by a 48% to 35% margin. The survey of 1,000 adults was conducted on July 21-22, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. They were simply asked whether or not they believed marijuana should be legalized.
2009 December. U.S. voters
A December 2009 poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion finds that 53% of Americans support legalizing marijuana, 43% oppose, and 4% are not sure. See: Most Americans Support Legalizing Marijuana. Poll question was "Do you support or oppose the legalization of each of the following drugs?" Methodology: "Online interviews with 1,004 American voters, conducted on Dec. 3 and Dec. 4, 2009. Margin of error is 3.1 per cent."
2009 April. U.S. adults
"It’s not just a California poll. A WashingtonPost/ABC survey, also released last week, revealed that 46 percent of Americans support legalization of small amounts of marijuana for personal use — that’s double the support it had a decade ago." - May 6, 2009. Christian Science Monitor. Article titled "Legalize marijuana? Schwarzenegger says let’s debate it." Actual poll: "Washington Post-ABC News Poll". Poll conducted April 21-24, 2009 of a random national sample of adults. The Washington Post. ABC News.
2008 US presidential election
"The Zogby poll, commissioned by the conservative-leaning O'Leary Report, surveyed 3,937 voters and found 52 percent in favor of legalization. Only 37 percent opposed." - May 6, 2009. "Majority Of Americans Want Pot Legalized: Zogby Poll". The Huffington Post. See also: "New Poll: 52% Say Marijuana Should Be Legal, Taxed, Regulated." May 06, 2009. Salem-News.com. "Is marijuana tax the next revenue stream?", by Michael B. Farrell. May 11, 2009. Chicago Sun-Times.
- *3,937 voters weighted to match the 2008 presidential outcome -- 54 percent Obama voters and 46 percent McCain supporters.
Voters were asked: "Scarce law enforcement and prison resources, a desire to neutralize drug cartels and the need for new sources of revenue have resurrected the topic of legalizing marijuana. Proponents say it makes sense to tax and regulate the drug while opponents say that legalization would lead marijuana users to use other illegal drugs. Would you favor or oppose the government's effort to legalize marijuana?"
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Cannabis is safer.
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16 Dec 2019: Majority Of Americans Support Marijuana Legalization, Two More New Polls Show. "Voters who supported President Trump in the 2016 election expressed greater opposition to the policy than Republicans and Republican-leaning independents as a whole."
| 2 May 2019: Time to Admit It: Trump Opposed Cannabis Legalization. He opposed 3 bills for veterans’ access to medical cannabis. |
23 Feb 2019: Trump Continued to Flip-Flop on Medical Marijuana.
See: Reagan's war on cannabis. And: Holy War on Drugs, Conservative-led global incarceration.
| Ronald Reagan, 1980 campaign speech: "Leading medical researchers are coming to the conclusion that marijuana, pot, grass whatever you want to call it, is probably the most dangerous drug in the United States, and we haven't begun to find out all of the ill effects, but they are permanent ill effects. The loss of memory for example." |
Share link: Obama.
- Obama correctly said that cannabis is safer than alcohol. See: Cannabis is safer. He also said marijuana should be treated more as a public health issue than a criminal one. And: Obama signals support for legalizing medical marijuana. [76]. See video.
- USA. 1 in 10 deaths of working-age adults are alcohol-related (disease, overdose, car crashes, falls, violence, etc). 87,798 per year, 2006 to 2010. [77][78][79][80][81].
See longer article: Cannabis is safer.
- Imagine if Mitt Romney had been elected President in 2012 instead of Obama.
- Obama on marijuana legalization. [82]. "My suspicion is that you’re gonna see other states start looking at this". The Washington Post. Jan. 22, 2015.
Above quote is from Sanjay Gupta interview of Obama on April 15, 2015. Interview aired on CNN on April 19, 2015. [83][84][85].
- Obama administration asks Supreme Court to reject lawsuit filed by Republican governments in Oklahoma and Nebraska to stop legal marijuana in Colorado [86]. December 2015.
  Obama helped turn around the Reagan-Bush War on Pot, mandatory minimums, mass incarceration. See: US incarceration peaked in 2008. |
- Holder's Legacy: Steering Away From the Drug War and Mass Incarceration. [87]. Attorney General Eric Holder (2009-2015) under President Obama. 25 Sep 2014.
Register and vote for cannabis.
Nixon's racist drug war
See: Race, ethnicity, and drug war.
The quote from John Ehrlichman (in 1994) is from an April 2016 Dan Baum article in Harper's Magazine: Legalize It All. How to win the war on drugs. Quote: “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
Today's far-right Republicans
Return to top. See: Happy alternatives to Republican-led poverty, mass incarceration, food insecurity, debt, ill health, intense concentration of wealth, endless wars.
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14 May 2021: The total wealth of billionaires worldwide rose to $13 trillion in 12 months. It was at $5 trillion only a year ago. Wealth inequality at levels not seen since just before the Great Depression. Republican tax cuts for the rich. Record low inflation-adjusted US federal minimum wage.
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GOP taxes screw middle class
Trump signed tax law that gave 83% of benefits to the top 1%.
Republican filibuster equals
Return to top. See Wikipedia: Filibuster
- The evil history of the US Senate filibuster, or why the US no longer has simple majority rule. [89].
The forever drug war
The Republican Party has used its Drug War as a 50 year distraction. All to serve the rich. See: Republican President Nixon's drug war against blacks and hippies. See Wikipedia: War on drugs. See Wikipedia: Southern Strategy - Keeping poor whites and blacks fighting against each other, instead of the real enemy, the Republican low-tax-paying rich. See Wikipedia: Nixon's Enemies List, of journalists, actors, union leaders, etc. who expose it all. A GOP playbook that has never ended, and played out yet again by billionaire Trump until he was dumped in 2020. |
High US taxes on poor
Republican filibuster says to Americans: "Heads we win, tails you lose." Democracy? What democracy?
When Democrats have the majority, the Republican minority uses the filibuster to block higher taxes on the rich, and to block lower taxes on the middle class and poor. When Republicans have the majority they use budget reconciliation to use their simple majority to lower taxes on the rich, and increase user fees, sales taxes, and other regressive taxation to increase taxes on the poor and middle class.
This is the whole purpose of the US Republican Party. To serve the rich. Period.
And on US middle class
Chart 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.
| Republican tax bill hurts the poor more than originally thought, Congressional Budget Office finds. | "By 2019, Americans earning less than $30,000 a year would be worse off under the Senate bill, CBO found. By 2021, Americans earning $40,000 or less would be net losers, and by 2027, most people earning less than $75,000 a year would be worse off. On the flip side, millionaires and those earning $100,000 to $500,000 would be big beneficiaries". |
| 2 polls: Only 29% of Americans approve of Republican tax plan. 2. | |
US voter suppression
Republicans have disenfranchised black, brown, and poor white people via "The New Jim Crow"; the drug war and mass incarceration. See: Holy War on Drugs, Conservative-led global incarceration.
Black votes matter.
Low US minimum wage
Return to top. See: More charts.
17 June 2019: US federal minimum wage has 35% less buying power than in 1969. 10 years since last increase. A record. CNN. [90].
Minimum wage workers crushed while serving the Republican low-tax-paying rich:
2 Jul 2019: There’s More Evidence That Raising the Minimum Wage Won’t Cost Jobs.
"The U.S. has one of the stingiest minimum wage policies of any wealthy nation." Dec. 29, 2017. Washington Post. Chart below is from the article.
Chart below. USA. Inflation-adjusted federal minimum wage over the years. US minimum wage peaked in 1968.
Source. See also: Wikipedia: List of minimum wages by country.
High wealth inequality
See the median wealth by country chart:
Wikipedia: List of countries by wealth per adult - 2019 publication: The average median wealth per adult for Canada ($107,004) is much higher than that of the former great nation, the USA ($65,904). It's due to Republican trickle-down voodoo economics: Giving tax cuts to the rich instead of to the middle class and poor who actually need them. Plus predatory mortgage loans and foreclosure. And predatory unforgivable student loans. Google News search: student debt.
Chart below. USA. 1989-2018. Top 1% Up $21 Trillion. Bottom 50% Down $900 Billion.
Republicans wasted $$-trillions on health insurance companies, and ground wars ($5.6 trillion) based on Bush/CIA WMD lies. Instead of paying higher wages, and higher minimum wages. As Canada does.
US middle-class wealth has collapsed. [91]. See chart below. See: Income inequality and drug war. And: Wikipedia: List of countries by wealth per adult.? Median wealth is exactly in the middle. 50% of adults have more, and 50% have less. Wealth is all assets (money, stocks, property, etc.) minus all debts.
- Middle class wealth collapsing. [92]. And: Just 8 men own same wealth as half the world. See Wikipedia: Wealth in the United States.
| Median wealth per adult. Credit Suisse. 2019 report. Country links are to Wikipedia articles. Click red column headers to sort. Link. |
per adult.
US dollars
High income inequality
Timeline below of real (inflation-adjusted) average US household income by quintile and top 5 percent in 2018 dollars. Note that the bottom 60% of households (bottom 3 quintiles) have had little improvement in real income. While the top 20%, and especially the top 5 percent, have had large, even exceptional, increases in real income.
Real wages are not just flat, they are falling. 15 Jun 2018. Jeff Stein and Andrew Van Dam. Washington Post.
Increasing income inequality over time. Chart below from:
17 Dec 2017: A Republican Tax Plan to Turbocharge Inequality, in 3 Charts. New York Times.
1 Jul 2016: Income Inequality Is At The Highest Level In American History. By Bryce Covert. 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."
- Commons: Category: Median income. Charts, graphs, maps
High household debt
Return to top. See Wikipedia: Household debt.
US household debt at all time high. Chart below is from the PDF.
Total household debt. From 1st quarter 2003 through recent times.
Total Household Debt by Type:
- Click to enlarge. Timeline is by quarters.
High US medical debt
Return to top. See: Canadian single-payer universal healthcare versus US healthcare.
This doesn't happen in Canada, due to single-payer universal healthcare.
17 Jan 2019: US. 34 Devastating Stories About How People Are Still Crushed By Medical Debt. By Venessa Wong. BuzzFeed News.
High student loan debt
- Student Loan Debt by State. Map, table, and article.
- 15 July 2021: Student Loan Debt Statistics: 2021. U.S. student loan debt totals $1.6 trillion as of March 31, 2021.
One way to lower education costs is to start college earlier. Various countries are granting adult rights at earlier ages: See: Wikipedia: Age of majority (by country). Wikipedia: Voting age.
Stagnant US wages
USA. Since 2001, labor’s share of national income has suffered a sustained decline. 11 Sep 2018.
- See above chart source. [93]. And source article.
Chart below: Top 10% of earners receive 50% of all income. When capital gains are included.
- Above graph source. And: Source 2.
| 10 Jul 2018: National (US) Pay Trends. "Since 2006, wages have risen 12.9 percent overall in the US. But when you factor in inflation, real wages' have actually fallen 9.3 percent. In other words, the income for a typical worker today buys them less than it did in 2006." |
2 Jul 2018: An Update for 2018: More Evidence That Half of Americans Are In or Near Poverty. Paul Buchheit. Common Dreams.
For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades. 7 Aug 2018. By Drew DeSilver. Pew Research Center. Chart below is from the article. Bottom of chart says: "Data for wages of production and non-supervisory employees on private non-farm payrolls."
Top line in timeline below is hourly wages adjusted for inflation. It is flat: Bottom of chart below says: "Data for wages of production and non-supervisory employees on private non-farm payrolls."
No universal healthcare
Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security all came from Democrats. You pay the taxes while healthier. Republicans prefer you die. 50% in U.S. Fear Bankruptcy Due to Major Health Event. [94]
Google search: 26,000 Americans die each year from not having health insurance.
Single payer costs less
Portugal's drug decrim equals
100 drug overdoses yearly.
Versus 93,000 overdoses in US
| Country | Median wealth per adult. 2018. US dollars | Healthcare cost per person. US dollars PPP. 2019 | Murder rate per 100,000. 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | $106,342 | $5.418 | 1.8 |
| USA | $61,667 | $11,072 | 5.0 |
| Country | Life expectancy. 2019 | Under-5 mortality rate per 1000 live births. 2019 | Maternal mortality rate per 100,000 live births. 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 82.3 years | 4.9 | 10 |
| USA | 78.9 years | 6.5 | 19 |
President Eisenhower. 1953:
His 91% top marginal tax rate
Equaled prosperity for more.
Eisenhower was not a socialist. He did not support state ownership of industries and businesses.
Eisenhower, an economically progressive Republican President, had a 91% top marginal income tax rate.. He participated in one of the greatest eras of economic prosperity-for-more in the US in the 1950s.
That era had lower overall taxes on the middle class.
| There was a higher average effective tax rate on the top 1 percent of US households in the 1950s. It was 42% when totaling federal, state, and local taxes. In 2014 it was 36.4%. See chart below. |
Chart below. See: Highest US marginal income tax rates over time.
- Above chart source. And: Source 2.
Chart below. Timeline of top US federal marginal tax rate.
Republican President Lincoln
Created first progressive
US federal income tax.
Republican president Abraham Lincoln did not believe in state ownership of industries and businesses. So he was not a "socialist". Socialism was not well known at that time. See Wikipedia: Socialism.
| In the United States, the first progressive federal income tax was established by the Revenue Act of 1862. The act was signed into law by Lincoln. It replaced a flat tax. See Wikipedia: Progressive tax. |
Lincoln's economically progressive message below. What a contrast to today's far-right Republican leaders. From a message to the U.S. Congress, 3 December 1861:
"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."
More sources: [95]. The full speech. See: Facebook image.
Thomas Paine on the poor
Thomas Paine statue below in Thetford, England. See: Paine Wikiquotes. Search for "poor" within those quotes. For example:
When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, then may the country boast of its constitution and its government.
Paine was nothing like today's Republican Party.
Overpopulation = Warming
Table of countries with higher rates of yearly population increases. Overpopulation equals less greenspace, more stress, more pollution, less biodiversity, less rainforests, fewer parks, more noise, more carbon dioxide, more global warming, higher seas, more frequent hurricanes, more climate change, more drought, more climate refugees, less resources, more poverty.
Many clueless Republican leaders deny it all. They also block free birth control, and simple single-payer, public-option healthcare without deductibles, copays, and premiums. Something that seniors, and everybody else with health problems, needs in order to work part time as one is able, and as an aging world needs.
So politicians worldwide need to work on that instead of trying to incentivize more babies. Truly universal healthcare costs less since it encourages more preventive care, and doesn't need big wasteful middleman health insurance bureaucracies. Healthcare should be completely separate from income level and workplace.
Immigration has to be limited. Economic justice has to happen instead. Countries need fair trade treaties and unions, and to even consider merging countries (or nearly so, as in the European Union). Economies of scale. As they have prospered birth rates have fallen in the European Union, Canada, Japan, Korea, and other peaceful, cooperative, and relatively more economically just areas. South and Central America have relatively higher birth rates. They are also generally more violent, and economically unjust. Africa and the Mideast are generally even more violent, economically unjust, and authoritarian.
And politicians need to incentivize more hempcrete construction, so that carbon levels go down.
Wikipedia: List of countries and dependencies by population density
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