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kleinbl00  ·  3835 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Pitchforks Are Coming... For Us Plutocrats

Because that wouldn't a be a structural change.

Nick Hanauer's net worth / American population below the poverty line = 22 bucks each

Remember when Bush gave everybody $200 on their tax return back in '03 or '04 or whatever? Remember how that accomplished exactly fuckall? When you're saying "give 1.45 million Walmart workers an additional $10k a year" you're saying "Walmart alone is on the hook for 14.5 billion dollars." $10k a year at 45 million people is 450 billion dollars. Per year.

That's the sort of thing that requires legislation.