Once upon a time in a land far far away, there was a young country
called America. America was a very healthy and prosperous country. A country
where there was a few rich and a few poor, but the majority of people were in
the middle not rich and not poor. A simple mailman could buy a home, get married and provide for his family. Maybe
even send his kids to college someday. The schools were good and the streets
were safe. The American people believed in the future. They all paid taxes to keep
the country going. The poor paid a little bit of taxes, the middle paid a medium
amount and the rich paid the most. Everyone thought that was fair, until one day the rich decided they
weren’t rich enough and they found ways to evade taxes. There were loopholes
in tax laws which they used to shelter their money. They also bought elections
and manipulated politics in order to keep as much of their money as possible.
With all the extra wealth, the rich took their money and built factories in countries
where labor was dirt cheap and workers had no rights as the rich grew richer, the
American workforce lost power. The middle class began to disappear and the
wealth gap grew wider. In order to keep the American people in line, the rich bought newspapers,
TV, radio stations and spread the message that this was all for the better interests
of the people and that money would trickle down. As it stands today, the top 1%
of the population owns 40% of the country’s wealth. How can a simple mailman
support his family now?
