If you paid $1 in federal income taxes last year, you paid more than Citigroup after making $4 billion in profits, charging 32.74% interest on credit cards & slashing 20,000 jobs.
Trump said he'd cap credit card interest rates at 10% & his tax breaks would create jobs. He lied.
An 11-year-old works all summer, saves $900, buys himself an electric dirt bike and rides about 300 feet from home to go fishing.
Police stop him, fingerprint him, tow his bike and send him to court — with an officer telling him that failing to appear could result in a warrant.
When the machinery of the state comes down on a sixth-grader like he’s a hardened criminal, maybe we should stop and ask what kind of society we're building.
A child went fishing.
The government responded with fingerprinting the kid and giving him a court date.
That’s how a police state begins.
We’ve lost 30% of our purchasing power in the last 6 years and somehow, everyone just accepted it.
We literally were made 30% poorer so the government can spend trillions.
I just want to point out… the amount of money the U.S. has spent on war in the last 2.5 months is roughly the same cost that Bernie Sanders proposed for universal college. So the real question is never ‘can we afford it’… it’s what we choose to prioritize.
BREAKING: U.S. housing affordability falls to its worst level on record, with the income needed to buy a median-priced home surging to roughly $123,000.