The Real Terrorists: The .01%
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They consist of 16,000 individuals, about the size of a crowd at a
professional basketball game. The inequality horror they've fomented is
reaching far beyond the half
of America that is in or near poverty, for it now impacts those of us
well above the median, those of us in the second highest of four wealth
quartiles.
professional basketball game. The inequality horror they've fomented is
reaching far beyond the half
of America that is in or near poverty, for it now impacts those of us
well above the median, those of us in the second highest of four wealth
quartiles.
"The .01% go about their self-serving tax avoidance while 2.5 million children experience homelessness every year," writes Buchheit. "The corporations of the .01% hoard hundreds of billions overseas while nearly two-thirds of American families don't have enough money to replace a broken furnace." (Image: Public domain)
