A Billionaires' Coup in the US
The debt deal will hurt the poorest Americans, convinced by Fox and the Tea Party to act against their own welfare
There are two ways of cutting a deficit: raising taxes or reducing
spending. Raising taxes means taking money from the rich. Cutting
spending means taking money from the poor. Not in all cases of course:
some taxation is regressive; some state spending takes money from
ordinary citizens and gives it to banks, arms companies, oil barons and
farmers. But in most cases the state transfers wealth from rich to poor,
while tax cuts shift it from poor to rich.
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