To Comfort The Afflicted
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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Observercast

Where To Get The Money To Start Fixing Inequality

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER When Jesse Jackson ran a strong populist campaign for president in 1988, advocating bold new policies and programs to address inequality, establishment skeptics scoffed, “Where ya gonna get the money?” Jackson answered directly: “Get it from where it went.” He meant from corporations and the rich, which had been rigging the economic […]

Jim Hightower
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Populist author, public speaker and radio commentator Jim Hightower writes "The Hightower Lowdown," a monthly newsletter chronicling the ongoing fights by America's ordinary people against rule by plutocratic elites. Sign up at JimHightower.substack.com.