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- 1 Top
- 2 Latest on Republican cannabis war
- 3 November 3, 2020 election
- 4 Older cannabis politics
- 5 Vote out Conservatives worldwide
- 6 Federal descheduling would help
- 7 US Republican gerrymandering
- 8 Early voting calendars and info
- 9 Voting info
- 10 Voting reform
- 11 Vote!
- 12 US legislation
- 13 2016 US election
- 14 2014 US election
- 15 See also
- 16 Single-payer healthcare. Decrim
- 17 Site navigation
- 18 Cannabis is safer.
- 19 Trump's far-right Republicans
- 20 GOP taxes screw middle class
- 21 Falling inflation-adjusted wages
- 22 US has stingiest minimum wage
- 23 US has high wealth inequality
- 24 US has high income inequality
- 25 Massive US household debt
- 26 Massive US medical debt
- 27 Progressive Republicans:
- 28 President Eisenhower. 1953
- 29 His 91% top marginal tax rate
- 30 Equaled prosperity for more
- 31 President Abraham Lincoln
- 32 Categories
- Share links: vote and register. This article was written by Timeshifter.. See also: Holy War on Drugs, Conservative-led global incarceration. See: Cannabis polls. And: Under Trump, wages are not just flat, they are falling. And: Happy alternatives to Republican-led poverty, mass incarceration, food insecurity, debt, ill health, intense concentration of wealth, endless wars.
Same Day Voter Registration. Hover over any state on the map.
How to Vote By Mail in Your State: Deadlines for Every State.
When Is My Voter Registration Deadline? By state. From article: "Amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, many states have shifted deadlines and expanded registration options. Here’s what you need to know to register to vote in the 2020 general election."
Many states now allow mail-in voting without requiring a medical reason. Call or go online to get your mail-in ballot before the deadline for your state:
How vote by mail works in all 50 states for Election Day 2020 "Here's how each state and the District of Columbia is handling elections this year. Note that many states are still finalizing their plans for the November election -- check back for updates."
How to Track Your Absentee Ballot by State. Check the status of your mail-in ballot.
Latest on Republican cannabis war
See more recent Republican voting history concerning cannabis:
Vote out most Republicans and their cannabis war.
Detailed history of marijuana on the ballot - Ballotpedia. Years, charts, timelines. And: Marijuana on the ballot. By year.
November 3, 2020 election
Vote out most Republicans! Ballotpedia issues: marijuana and minimum wage.
NORML - Smoke the Vote. - Congressional Scorecard. Find your state. See your representatives' grades from A to F. Enter your zip code for easy access to races, grades, etc.
CannabisVoter.info. HeadCount’s Cannabis Voter Project | Voter Registration and Education. Click on your state to determine which anti-cannabis Republicans to vote out.
Ballotpedia's Sample Ballot Lookup Tool - Ballotpedia. Enter address. You will then see the candidates and ballot measures on your ballot. You can click on any candidate or ballot measure for much more info.
| Current medical marijuana states, with map. And: Clickable MPP map. And: Clickable NORML map. And: States that allow voters to register the same day they vote, despite also having registration deadlines. And: Absentee and Mail Voting Policies in Effect for the 2020 Election. |
Search Google for Polling Location or Early Voting.. Then enter your street address to get your voting location and hours.
Older cannabis politics
2018. Highest midterm eligible voter turnout (50.3%) since 1914. [68][69][70][71][72].
6-7 Nov 2018: Election results 2018: States legalize marijuana, felon voting rights. USA Today.
12 Oct 2018: Republicans Have a Secret Weapon in the Midterms: Voter Suppression.
26 Sep 2018: In These Red States, the Health of More Than 450,000 People Is on the Ballot.
25 Sep 2018: Americans! Your voting habits are terrible, so register to vote.
30 Aug 2018: Senate Showdown 2018: 12 Important Races to Watch. Photos. Freedom Leaf.
16 Aug 2018: State Ballot Measures in Midterms Range From Medicaid to Marijuana. AARP.
21 April 2018: Legal Marijuana Is Incredibly Popular With Marginal Voters. By Sean McElwee.
12 April 2018: The largest block of voters in America isn't Democrats or Republicans. It's the people who don't vote. What we could achieve if everyone voted.
26 Feb 2018: Voting registration drive makes inroads in unexpected territory: county jails. By Michael Livingston. Los Angeles Times.
2018 West Virginia state candidates on cannabis.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cynthia Nixon.
Time magazine. Majority of Americans support Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's positions. Including federal marijuana legalization. June 27, 2018. And 27 June 2018: Meet Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old who took out Joe Crowley.
As usual, Bernie Sanders is right, and the Republicans are wrong.
Politico has 2020 Presidential candidate positions on many issues, including marijuana.
Rock the Vote. "Our generation is getting screwed by a system and leadership that don’t reflect our vision for the future. The average monthly student loan payment for young Americans is 50% higher than it was in 2005, while the federal minimum wage [inflation-adjusted] is worth less than it was over 50 years ago."
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Under Trump, real wages are not just flat, they are falling. Real wages are inflation adjusted. Listen up, Trump cupcakes. Your fearless leader screwed nearly all of us. Share widely. |
Vote Smart - The Voter's Self Defense System. [73]. Look up politician, candidate, or zip code. Then look for "marijuana" from speeches tab, etc..
Legalisation or Prohibition? Here's Where Italy's Political Parties Stand on Cannabis. Feb. 20, 2018. By Federica Brioschi, Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights.
| A or F? How Congress scores on marijuana. 2. By Danielle Keane, NORML political director. 2016. "Of the 233 Democrats in Congress, 208 members (89.3 percent) received a passing grade of a 'C' or higher. Of the 302 Republicans in Congress, 102 members (33.8 percent) received a passing grade of a 'C' or higher." For your state see: Congressional Scorecard. NORML. Grading was based upon members' voting records. |
| Map of all U.S. marijuana laws by state (map updated to 2018). |
See: File:The history of state marijuana ballot initiatives.jpg The history of state marijuana ballot initiatives. From Freedom Leaf magazine and news. [74][75].]]
Vote out Conservatives worldwide
Holy War on Drugs, Conservative-led global incarceration. Progress in cannabis liberation could stagnate if anti-cannabis Conservatives are not booted out state by state, nation by nation.
- Isle Of Man Could Be The First Place In The British Isles To Decriminalise Cannabis Possession. From the article:
| Isle of Man officials visited Durham - home to one of several UK police forces that have stop pursuing people for cannabis possession for personal use, though having any amount remains illegal under the Misuse Of Drugs Act. ... [Conservative Prime Minister Theresa] May recently reaffirmed the Government's position, dismissing a Tory colleague who criticised it during Prime Minister’s Questions. |
Federal descheduling would help
- Public housing rejects Pennsylvania woman for legal use of medical marijuana. By Steve Twedt, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. August 24, 2018.
| GOP Congress Has Blocked Dozens Of Marijuana Amendments. |
| Republican Congressional Committee Blocks Marijuana Votes (Again). |
Could Legal Marijuana Tip the Senate for Democrats? - CannabisVoter.info - Click your state to see which anti-cannabis Republicans to vote out.
US Republican gerrymandering
In 2014: 8 of the 10 most gerrymandered districts in the USA were drawn by Republicans.
How the GOP Rigs Elections. "With a combination of gerrymandering, voter-ID laws and dark money, Republicans have tipped the political scales in their favor. ... Republicans now hold as many as 22 additional House seats because of gerrymandering." By Ari Berman. Jan 24, 2018. Rolling Stone.
- The Top Five Gerrymandering Cases to Watch in 2018. By Lily Price. January 8, 2018.
Early voting calendars and info
- Early Voting Calendar - Vote.org.
- Absentee and Early Voting. National Conference of State Legislators.
- Early voting - Ballotpedia.
Voting info
27 Sep 2018: All the Information You Need to Vote in the 2018 Midterm Elections. So, Register to vote!
| Google your question, and see specific info for your state or address. Google: Vote early. And: Google: How to register to vote. Online, by mail, or in person. Google: Where do I vote? And: Google: Am I registered to vote? |
U.S. election info. State by state: Voter registration info, deadlines, etc.. Online, by mail, in person. Early voting and absentee voting. [76][77][78][79][80][81]. And: Are you registered, and where is my polling place.
Voting reform
Independents greatly outnumber Democrats or Republicans in the USA. If anti-cannabis Republicans are to be voted out of power, then all Democrat primaries need to be opened to independents. See Wikipedia: Open primaries in the United States. And: Wikipedia: Blanket primary. And: Wikipedia: Nonpartisan blanket primary.
Vote!
- So You Want to be a Cannabis Activist? Here’s How to Get Started.
- Medical Marijuana Laws. US maps by year of approval.
- States with Legislation or Ballot Measures to Legalize Medical Marijuana. ProCon.org.
- The GOP’s War on Voting Is Working. June 29, 2016.
- Vote Medical Marijuana - poor record of most Republicans. Americans for Safe Access. Scoring of legislative records of candidates. Facebook.
See also: Cannabis polls.
Above timeline of polls is from this article:
| Latest Gallup Poll Shows Only 2-in-5 Americans Oppose Marijuana Legalization. October 21, 2015. |
In the 1970s several states decriminalized cannabis. Support for marijuana reform temporarily declined after Reagan and others (mostly Republicans) escalated the propaganda war on cannabis in the late 1970s. It escalated dramatically during Reagan's 1980 election campaign, with cooperation from many other fanatic anti-cannabis Republicans throughout the 1980s. See: Reagan's war on cannabis. Text about Reagan was added to the above graph of polls.
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US legislation
2016 US election
2016 Global Marijuana March and 420 events. Public opinion wins elections. Global Marches matter!
Articles written before the November 8, 2016 election in the USA:
| Republicans are busy filing retrograde drug bills across the land. Republicans want to put a conservative drug warrior on the Supreme Court to replace Antonin Scalia, and to reinvigorate their drug war. Supreme Court rejects conservative challenge to Colorado marijuana law from Republican states. 2. |
USA Today: 11 states least likely to legalize marijuana. Republican states across the nation.
| After the US election, marijuana could be legal for recreational or medical use in 29 states. |
As of Illinois decriminalization on July 29, 2016 there are 20 states plus the District of Columbia that have decriminalized or legalized recreational marijuana.
| Marijuana in the South: A State-by-State Guide. Republicans created a THC-free south. |
Map is from before the 2016 election:
- Which States Are Going To Be Voting On Marijuana Reform In November 2016?. And: Up to 12 States Could Vote on Marijuana This November -- Here They Are. 5 June 2016.
2014 US election
See: Cannabis and 2014 U.S. election.
See also
- Cannabis polls.
- The U.S. Drug War. Republicans lead. Has section on 2012 election.
Single-payer healthcare. Decrim
Portugal's drug decriminalization. 2.3.4. Based on single-payer, universal healthcare. 2.
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. [82]
| Country | Median wealth per adult. 2018. US dollars | Healthcare cost per person. US dollars PPP. 2019 | Murder rate per 100,000. 2019 |
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| 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 |
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| Canada | 82.3 years | 4.9 | 10 |
| USA | 78.9 years | 6.5 | 19 |
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Portugal's drug decriminalization. 2.3.4. Based on single-payer, universal healthcare. 2.
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Cannabis is safer.
Return to top. See article: Cannabis is safer.
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 Opposes Cannabis Legalization. He opposed latest 3 bills for veterans’ access to medical cannabis. |
23 Feb 2019: Trump Continues to Flip-Flop on Medical Marijuana.
See: Reagan's war on cannabis. And: Holy War on Drugs, Republican-led mass 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. [86]. 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. [87][88][89][90][91].
See longer article: Cannabis is safer.
- Imagine if Mitt Romney had been elected President in 2012 instead of Obama.
- Obama on marijuana legalization. [92]. "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. [93][94][95].
- Obama administration asks Supreme Court to reject lawsuit filed by Republican governments in Oklahoma and Nebraska to stop legal marijuana in Colorado [96]. 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. [97]. Attorney General Eric Holder (2009-2015) under President Obama. 25 Sep 2014.
Vote out most US Republicans and their cannabis war.
Register and vote for cannabis.
Trump'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.
News: Americans want universal healthcare and progressive taxation. Democratic Presidents Roosevelt and Truman worked for both. Roosevelt and Truman, followed by Eisenhower, a progressive Republican, had steep progressive taxation where the prosperous middle class paid less taxes as a percent of their income, because the rich paid more. All 3 Presidents increased the minimum wage, [98], which pushed up middle class wages too. Under Trump, inflation-adjusted wages are declining [99].
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GOP taxes screw middle class
Trump signed tax law that gave 83% of benefits to the top 1%.
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. | |
Falling inflation-adjusted wages
- Return to top. See: Income inequality and drug war. And: Under Trump, inflation-adjusted wages are declining (especially for Republican states with low minimum wages).
The Trump Matrix. Wage slaves waking up.
28 Feb 2020: PolitiFact: Rep. Mark Pocan is on point that wages haven't moved much in the last 30 years. "The cost of everyday goods like rent, groceries and cars have outpaced median wage growth. ... Accounting for inflation, the median wage has only increased $3 since 1990 — and the cost of living expenses has far outpaced that number."
| Real pay data show Trump's 'blue collar boom' is more of a bust for US workers, in 3 charts. 7 Feb 2020. |
25 Sep 2018: Real Wage Growth Is Actually Falling. Forbes.
| 14 Aug 2018: Stagnating salaries: Real US wages are essentially back at 1974 levels, Pew reports. Daniel B. Kline. USA Today. |
In U.S., wage growth is being wiped out entirely by inflation. 10 Aug 2018. Washington Post.
| 7 Aug 2018: For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades. Pew Research Center. |
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."
US has stingiest minimum wage
Return to top. See: More charts.
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.
Source. See also: Wikipedia: List of minimum wages by country.
17 June 2019: US federal minimum wage has 35% less buying power than in 1969. 10 years since last increase. A record. CNN. [100].
- 2020 State Minimum Wage Rates. Plus map showing lower minimum wages in Republican states. [101][102].]]
US federal minimum wage timeline below. Top line is adjusted for inflation. Middle class prosperity peaked under Truman and Roosevelt in the 1950s due to steep progressive taxation where the middle class paid less. And the minimum wage was increased. That also pushed up middle class wages.
US has 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.
Republicans waste $$-trillions on health insurance companies, and ground wars ($5.6 trillion). Instead of paying higher wages, and higher minimum wages. As Canada does.
US middle-class wealth has collapsed. [103]. 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. [104]. And: Just 8 men own same wealth as half the world. See Wikipedia: Wealth in the United States.
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Median wealth per adult. Credit Suisse. 2019 report. Country links are to Wikipedia articles. Click red column headers to sort. Link.
Country Median wealth
per adult.
US dollars1 Switzerland 227,891 2 Australia 181,361 3 Iceland 165,961 4 Hong Kong 146,887 5 Luxembourg 139,789 6 Belgium 117,093 7 New Zealand 116,433 8 Japan 110,408 9 Canada 107,004 10 Ireland 104,842 11 France 101,942 12 United Kingdom 97,452 13 Singapore 96,967 14 Spain 95,360 15 Austria 94,070 16 Italy 91,889 17 Malta 76,016 18 South Korea 72,198 19 Norway 70,627 20 Taiwan 70,191 21 Qatar 69,671 22 United States 65,904 23 Denmark 58,784 -
US has 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.
Median income by country charts:
- Median GDP per capita: how much does the typical person earn in different countries? A look at Global Inequality - the Giving What We Can Blog. By Hauke Hillebrandt. 25 May 2016
- The World Bank’s Poverty Statistics Lack Median Income Data, So We Filled In the Gap Ourselves — Download Available. February 6, 2016. Anna Diofasi and Nancy Birdsall. Center for Global Development.
- Above chart. United States leads in income inequality, and lack of economic mobility. Increasing income inequality on the horizontal axis. Increasing economic immobility on the vertical axis. Note the Scandinavian countries on the bottom left.
26 Jul 2018: As Workers' Wages Continue to Fall Under Trump, Analysis Shows CEO Pay Is Way Higher Than Typically Reported. Jake Johnson, Common Dreams.
17 Jul 2018: Bernie Sanders: Trump’s economy is great for billionaires, not for working families. By Bernie Sanders. USA Today. 17 Jul 2018: If the economy is 'roaring', why are so many Americans still struggling? Bernie Sanders. The Guardian.
Real wages are not just flat, they are falling. 15 Jun 2018. Jeff Stein and Andrew Van Dam. Washington Post.
| Workers’ wages fall after Republican tax cuts. 13 Jun 2018. Tax cuts went mostly to the rich. Should have gone mostly to the middle class who would have had more money free to plow back into the economy. For the biggest group of American workers, wages aren’t just flat. They’re falling. June 15, 2018. Washington Post. [105][106][107]. |
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
Massive US 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.
Massive 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.
Progressive Republicans:
President Eisenhower. 1953
Wikipedia: Dwight D. Eisenhower. President: January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961.
Viral meme says 1956 Republican platform was pretty liberal. Article by PolitiFact says it is mostly true. See Wikipedia: PolitiFact.
President Eisenhower followed progressives like President Roosevelt. Roosevelt and General Eisenhower had worked together to crush the far-right of their day, the Nazis.
Quote source: Franklin Roosevelt's Statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act. June 16, 1933. "No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country."
Unlike today's Republicans, Eisenhower understood that trickle-down economics does not work.
14 Oct 2018: Bernie Sanders video: Trickle-Down Economics Does Not Work.
12 Oct 2018: Bernie Sanders video: Disney Heiress Abigail Disney Says The Wealthy Don't Need Another Tax Break.
His 91% top marginal tax rate
Equaled prosperity for more
Eisenhower, the 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.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Hires Former Marijuana Lobbyist As Senior Advisor. By Kyle Jaeger. January 7, 2019. Marijuana Moment. From the article: "Both believe that marijuana should be legalized at the federal level".
Ocasio-Cortez floats 70 percent tax on the super wealthy to fund Green New Deal.
7 Jan 2018: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is floating a 70 percent top tax rate — here’s the research that backs her up. And: Haters. And: Dancegate.
As Poll Shows Majority Back 70% Top Marginal Tax Rate for Ultra-Rich, Ocasio-Cortez's "Radical" Proposal Proves Extremely Mainstream. [108][109].
Chart below. Highest marginal income tax rates over time.
- Above chart source. And: Source 2.
USA. Since 2001, labor’s share of national income has suffered a sustained decline. 11 Sep 2018.
- See above chart source. [110]. 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."
The top line in the chart below is for hourly wages adjusted for inflation
President Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln. 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: [111]. The full speech. See: Facebook image.
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