Millionaires To Reap 80% of Benefit From Tax Change In Coronavirus Stimulus: “The change - which alters what certain business owners are allowed to deduct from their taxes - will allow some of the nation’s wealthiest to avoid nearly $82 billion of tax liability in 2020.”ģ. The Fed Bailed Out the Investor Class: “Thanks to this massive government subsidy, large companies like Boeing and Carnival Cruises were able to avoid taking money directly - and sidestep requirements to keep employees on.”Ģ. Indeed, if looting is defined in the dictionary as “to rob especially on a large scale” using corruption, then these are 10 examples of looting that we rarely ever call “looting”:ġ. To really understand the deep programming at work here, consider how the word “looting” is almost never used to describe the plundering that has become the routine policy of our government at a grand scale that is far larger than a vandalized Target store. Working-class people pilfering convenience-store goods is deemed “looting.” By contrast, rich folk and corporations stealing billions of dollars during their class war is considered good and necessary “public policy” - aided and abetted by arsonist politicians in Washington lighting the crime scene on fire to try to cover everything up. And we have to understand that terms like “looting” are an example of the way our media often imperceptibly trains us to think about economics, crime and punishment in specific and skewed ways.

In the modern vernacular, that word “looting” is loaded - it comes with all sorts of race and class connotations. Headlines this morning are all about looting - specifically, looting in Minneapolis, after the police killing of an unarmed African American man was caught on video. In this Orwellian era, working-class people pilfering convenience store goods is called “looting,” while rich people stealing hundreds of billions of dollars is deemed good “public policy”- David Sirota He’s taken a deep look into this week’s news has come up with a theme. We are featuring his newsletter here for the first time.

(Mural by graffiti artist Alec Monopoly / Photo by aisletwentytwo | Flickr CC 2.0) David Sirota has a well-earned reputation as a truth-teller - an heir to I.F. That’s partly why our roads and transit systems are falling apart. We’re missing billions in taxes each year.

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