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http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/ocasio-cortez-aocs-billionaires-taxes-hannity-american-democracy.html

A complex issue.  It should be studied more.  I agree that 1% shouldn't hold 90% of the wealth; however, removing reward for one's efforts would take away incentive to achieve higher aims.  A personal 70% tax seems excessive.  The reasonable thing to do is raise taxes on those that can afford it, to a limit.  Find the balance point where even the poorest can have a decent life, stop funding wars and sending billions and billions in aid to other countries and there shouldn't have to be people homeless and hungry in America. 

While higher taxes is a concept to achieve that, another idea is to apply a higher tax on corporations, since being non-living-persons (though legal fiction does exist and maybe should be reevaluated), they are not "created equal." 

Corporations provide employment, so rather than working land, people work in businesses.  Is it fair the Walton family makes billions in profits while low-level Walmart employees have to also get welfare to survive?  From that standpoint, no, but... if Walmart didn't exist, there would be no jobs. There would be no lower prices that help the family budget. Many factors must be considered, so it needs to be scrutinized where the balance point is. 

Maybe the highest tax brackets should be on wealthy corporations, but limited in a more realistic way to providing living wages to their employees. More than just providing a living wage, corporate profits will be lowered, and this could be in conjunction with providing living wages, to where corporations have a cap on profits and create a more level playing field.  Corporations are at the root of a lot of problems because they have well-funded lobbyists and bribe politicians.  (Bribed politicians should be lampposted.) 

Okay, this is all just speculation.  There are hints there could be a better way, but it has to be looked at seriously, with an eye to minimum standards for the poor and capping the ability of corporations to sway politics.  As for the rich, they're somewhere in between.  Maybe higher taxes, maybe luxury taxes.  You don't want to put luxury car makers out of business because the rich can no longer afford to buy their cars.  See... there's a fine line to make it work for everybody.

I will say that democracy, where everybody is equal is a romantic notion.  "Created equal" means just that. We come into this world, each of us, with as much chance as the next person.  Thus, all humans should be respected, there are no human that is "less than" human.  All should have rights in this regard, and part of that should be minimum income to fund a decent lifestyle... plenty to eat, never worrying about heat being shut off in the winter, never going homeless, homes that meet minimum standards (no shacks, living in sheds, poor conditions, etc.)  To have better than minimum is the reward for innovation within free-market capitalism.  I guess, in a way, it might be looked at as "capped capitalism." 

Maybe CEO's shouldn't be getting multi-million dollar salaries and golden parachutes.  Maybe employees should be included in profit sharing or corporations should be employee owned?

Anyway, what are your thoughts?  Let's forge the future by envisioning what works for everyone.  We also need to get people to agree to lay down their swords over past indignities and start a new journey towards a better future. 

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Insanity And Self-Hatred On Steroids

"France: Green Party Founder Says Europeans Must Have Fewer Children to Make Way for More Muslim Migrants"

Left continues to push for demographic suicide
By Paul Joseph Watson

According to the co-founder of the French Green Party, benefits for native European families should be removed in order to encourage them to have less children so that more room can be made for Muslim migrants.

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Sasquatch Grometh via Ann Dahlberg, November 13th, 2018

Sasquatch Grometh via Ann Dahlberg, November 13th, 2018

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Sasquatch Grometh via Ann Dahlberg

November 13th, 2018

 

I am a Sasquatch and I live right next to you on Mother Earth. My name is Grometh. I am usually in the mountains, but now and then I also wander around on Mother Earth. Those that listen well and are sensitive can sometimes sense that I am nearby. Sometimes I am drawn to some place where there is some kind of activity going on otherwise I do not mingle much with humans. The animals and nature is what is closest to me and it is there that I have my mission. I wander around to see if I can help Mother Earth in some fashion. Some things I can restore, other things I need help with, yet other things we need assistance with from a higher power with in order to restore. Certain things are karmic and reoccurring, but we help Mother Earth in her healing process, which also is your human healing process. Everything is connected so one thing impact another even if it mostly are the animals and nature that I collaborate with.

I am much much taller than you. I take large strides across the Earth, while when I am in touch with you I can make myself small in order not to scare you. In spite of this I am still taller and bigger than you. I have fur and I do not think you would call me beautiful, while I see myself as a true and beautiful being on our Earth. I present myself here today so that you may understand that there are many beings that surround Mother Earth and who are dependent on her and hold her very dear. You are hardly alone to live on this Earth and you are not alone in being dependent on all her gifts. The gifts of Mother Earth are for us her clear water, her beautiful and wonderful vegetation and her richness in species. It is this that we shield and protect as much as is possible.

We can see that a new shift for Earth is underway and this gives us great joy and pleasure. It makes our work that much easier now when a new wave of energy has come down to Earth. Old species have started to emerge that have slumbered in their hideouts and dying species are starting to get a new life. If only humanity could stop for a moment much would happen on our Earth that would restore the hardest hit areas. You would understand what you were meant for you to come to do here. You have everything in your hand, but you are still too blind to see this. Open your eyes now dear folks and see what it is that is important in your lives. Is it not your own best? And what do you do about it? When will you understand that it is only natural products that will help your body to heal? You are a product of nature, just as we are, and you need its purity and clarity just as we do. There is no big difference between you and us. We are all living beings that reside on our Dear Mother Earth. She is so dearly loved by all, since she is our beloved Mother and loves us above all else. Take a step back to nature and you will understand what I mean. Use all knowledge and all technology you have in order to restore and heal Mother Earth thereby yourselves.

This is what I wanted to have said.

I walk with you when you walk with me.

The love for you and Everything that resides on Mother Earth is in my heart.

 

 

Translator from Swedish to English: Per Staffan

Source: www.sananda.website

 

The messages posted on www.sananda.website can freely be posted by other Lightworkers with the proper recognition of the channel and the translator as well as the website source.

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday that the defeat of entrenched political interests in top offices around the world – from America to Italy to Brazil – was a “positive development” for the world and a return to the worldview that “nations matter.”

Pompeo enthusiastically defended President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign slogan – “Make America Great Again” – as a philosophy that accelerated economic growth in the country and improved the lives of average Americans. He encouraged the gathering, including both world leaders and influential global businesspeople, to embrace “economic security” and reject the influences of international bodies far removed from the interests of the people.

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Will the nightmare discussed below come to pass?

The following post is lengthy, informative, and contains several videos that can be listened to at the reader’s leisure.

"Experts Warning Americans to Be Prepared For Economic Collapse, Disaster Surviving the Coming Food Crisis"
January 21, 2019 by IWB

by Amy S.

Suddenly, the world food markets spilled out of control. Within a year, prices for wheat doubled, those for soybean and sugar even tripled. The drivers behind this surge were stock decreases during the preceding years, a disappointing harvest due to bad weather in several countries and growing demand for feedstuff. Once prices soared, governments of exporting nations curbed the outflow of food, thus exacerbating the crisis. Merely two years later, prices had come down roughly to previous levels-the affliction had ended.

This is not the account of the infamous 2016/2019 price spikes; it is the half-forgotten story of the early 70s. At least for developed countries, this earlier crisis was worse than the recent one. Real food prices-corrected for inflation-climbed higher, and food expenditures absorbed a much greater share of households’ income, so that any increase was felt more harshly. This episode nonetheless takes a backseat in our collective memory because OPEC limited oil production soon after the food prices had started to rise. Higher oil prices proved to be the more lasting and pernicious impediment to global growth.

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Russiagate, oh what tangled web

The following article is long, quite informative and exposes many intracasies regarding the entire matter below.

"Death Of Russiagate: Mueller Team Tied To Mifsud’s Network"
by IWB

via Disobedient Media

In April last year, Disobedient Media broke coverage of the British involvement in the Trump-Russia collusion narrative, asking why All Russiagate Roads Lead To London, via the quasi-scholar Joseph Mifsud and others.

The issue was also raised by WikiLeaks’s Julian Assange, just days before the Ecuadorian government silenced him last March. Assange’s Twitter thread cited research by Chris Blackburn, who spoke with Disobedient Media on multiple occasions covering Joseph Mifsud’s ties to British intelligence figures and organizations, as well as his links to Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign, the FBI, CIA and the private cyber-security firm Crowdstrike.

We return, now, to this issue and specifically the research of Chris Blackburn, to place the final nail in the coffin of the Trump-Russia collusion charade.

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