President-elect Donald Trump isn’t just appointing incompetent buffoons to his Cabinet, but deeply immoral individuals who are completely lacking in family values.
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The Rule of the Uber-Rich Means Tyranny or Revolution
I lived among the wealthiest Americans. They knew only how to take. They could not give. They were deformed and deeply unhappy people in the grip of an unquenchable narcissism.
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An Arena Full of the Richest Americans Would Own As Much Wealth as 70% of the World
That’s 25,000 American adults – the richest .01% of America – who together own nearly $10 trillion, approximately the total wealth owned by 3.5 billion adults globally.
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"New Gilded Age" Reaches New Heights With World's Billionaires Owning Staggering $6 Trillion
In a new study, the Swiss financial firm UBS found that the wealth of the world's billionaires grew by 17 percent in 2016, bringing their combined fortune to more than double the GDP of the United Kingdom.
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Robert Reich: The Growing Danger of Dynastic Wealth
The estate tax applies only to estates over $11 million per couple – and wealthy families stash away dollars above this into “dynastic” trust funds that escape additional taxes. Now Trump and Republican leaders plan to cut or eliminate the tax altogether.
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How the Super-Rich Will Destroy Themselves
Perhaps they feel immune from the killings in the streets, for they rarely venture into the streets anymore. They don’t care about the great masses of ordinary people, nor do they think they need us.
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Time for Pitchforks: Why The Obscene Wealth Gap Can Only Mean One Thing
Americans greatly underestimate the degree of inequality in our country – and if we were given proper media coverage of the endless takeaway of wealth by the super rich, we'd be taking it personally.
