Why America’s Legislatures Routinely Screw Working Families |
As we head into a momentous election year, with state and national legislative seats up for grabs, even let-them-eat-cake Republicans are scrambling to sound sympathetic to today’s hard-hit working families.
Of course, tongue-clucking concern doesn’t mean actually doing anything to help this majority of Americans — and most legislatures are doing exactly that: nothing.
In fact, you’d think the ones hurting in America are billionaires, for those same tongue-clucking lawmakers have been laser-focused this year on delivering monopoly protections, multibillion-dollar government subsidies, exclusive tax breaks and even top government positions to the richest and greediest corporate profiteers. This is personally disgraceful and socially destructive … yet it has become business as usual.
Why? What’s causing America’s so-called “representatives” to disregard the needs of a majority of their own constituents and working families? The........