Rick Rodrick

[Rick Rodrick @rrodrick]

•Sign the petition! Working people are suffering while billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are having a space race. Enough. It’s time the ultra-wealthy & corporations #PayTheirFairShare. #TaxTheUltraWealthy

https://t.co/wrgG6DmHhF https://t.co/wD5VewsSES

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The vicious cycle of American foreign policy:

1) Hawks start wars in far-flung corners of globe.
2) Defense contractors get paid.
3) American soldiers die.
4) Contractors lobby for more money.
5) The defense budget grows.
6) America withdraws.
7) Repeat.

[Rick Rodrick @rrodrick]

@CaribSaint @SportsCenter @paytonpritch3 @ShotsByChubbs Not necessarily praise worth but note worthy for sure.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

If the GOP is so concerned about our debt, perhaps they should roll back the $1,900,000,000,000 tax cut they engineered in 2017 for corporations and the super-rich.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

CEO pay between 1978-2020: Up 1,322%
Worker pay between 1978-2020: FLAT

That's the kind of greed and inequality we have got to end.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Reminder: Mitch McConnell and Republicans in Congress had no problem with Trump adding $7 trillion-plus to the debt in one term.

Their hypocrisy is staggering.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Medicare for All is not radical. Radical is denying your citizens health care in the richest country on Earth.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

In just the last month's time:
- temperatures of 121° in British Columbia
- wildfires burning across the United States
- deadly flooding in China and in Europe
- drought throughout more than 95% of the American West

But bold action on climate is 'extreme'? Give me a break.

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

BREAKING: Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale receives a 3 years and 9 months (45 Months) term at sentencing today #DanielHale

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

If you’re one of the 39 million households receiving their first Child Tax Credit payment today, don’t forget that every single Republican voted against it.

[Rick Rodrick @rrodrick]

We must pressure our elected officials to acknowledge the wealth gap in the U.S. They can take meaningful action. We NEED them to take it.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Billionaires could fund Biden's entire American Families Plan from their soaring wealth during the pandemic, and be as rich as they were before it.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Your reminder that of the 700 Republicans who have filed paperwork to run for Congress next year, at least a third have backed Trump's baseless claim that he won the 2020 election. This is what it means to be a Republican now.

[Rick Rodrick @rrodrick]

Brainwashed is not too strong for the process the wealthy and corporations use to control the minds of U.S. citizens.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The corporate oligarchy has brainwashed this country into thinking we cannot afford a living wage for workers, or a Green New Deal, or child care, or expanded unemployment benefits, or guaranteed health care.

They're wrong. What we cannot afford is inaction.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The richest 1% of Americans dodge $175,000,000,000 in taxes every year. Fund the IRS and stop enabling the real looting in America.

[Rick Rodrick @rrodrick]

A statistic worth spreading widely. In studies, American participants almost always drastically underestimate the extent of wealth disparity in the U.S.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

The reality now is that we are living in an oligarchic society.

The top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 92%. Over the last 30 years, the top 1%'s wealth has increased by $21 trillion while the bottom half's declined.

Is that the kind of country we are satisfied with?

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

"Ocean fire" and "centibillionaire" are two words that simply should not exist.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The U.S. government didn't even consider Black people to be people on July 4, 1776.

Paying reparations to reckon with the lasting legacy of slavery is not radical. It's essential.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Reminder: Many of the same corporations putting out July 4th tweets also pay nothing in federal income taxes.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

89% of Democrats & 79% of Republicans support expanding Medicare to include dental, hearing & vision care.

86% of Democrats & 70% of Republicans support providing seniors with home health care.

This is what real bipartisanship looks like, even if all Republicans in DC vote no.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

—Louis Brandeis