Congress In The 70's Vs Today (Wealthier, More Conservative)

A Washington Post report breaks down the growing income inequality between Congressmen and the constituents they represent. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur shares the details.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/growing-wealth-widens-distance...

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[antonio3p1]

@Paulsasleepwalker Well first of all you could do what Rand Paul suggest which is make term limits for Congress and the Senate. Also you should realise that Obama never wanted to change anything. It was all a lie. He is just another lying and deceiving status quo president who works for the military industrial complex, UN and the centralbanking establishment.

He doesn't want peace or change. He wants a one world government and is willing to do that by any means necessary.

[antonio3p1]

@Paulsasleepwalker I'm not saying that regulations in their market might have increased of decrease but what I was trying to tell you is that the entire economy is unstable and unproductive because of the regulations killing productivity and competition. Also Peter Schiff did a video explaining this and if you watch that you will see that a lot of the fortune 400 companies hold so much cash in case interest rates go up since all of them are in debt and can basically crash if that happens.

[antonio3p1]

@Paulsasleepwalker You think that raising taxes results in job creation? Of course it doesn't nad those examples are just a coincidence. As I said throughout most of USA history we had no federal income tax and I will argue that more jobs were created throughout that history. Which is true.

Also those lawyers, executives and so on worked hard to get their job. Their parents most likely also worked hard to pay for their education and after all those years of hardwork they deserve a reward.

[Paulsasleepwalker]

@antonio3p1 How? This is how, sanders. senate. gov /imo/ media/ doc/ Saving-American - Democracy . pdf , If you want Paul's plans to work you better sign his petition on sanders. senate. gov

I actually think you are. It's better to have CFR to say they can't give corporate donations than to not have it at all. How do you honestly cut the government if you have lobbyists using their power and corporate greed infesting capitol hill telling them to keep favoring the current system?

[Paulsasleepwalker]

@antonio3p1 You're obviously relying on "Saints and Angels" if you think compromise will just automatically happen or if you think they'll suddenly listen to the public if someone who isn't even as popular as Obama was in '08 wins the presidency.

I'm not saying that the government will be 100% non corruptible, but we'll get a majority of it. Ron Paul talks about a revolution but with the same system? You do have to ask yourself these questions or you'll get the same result.

[Paulsasleepwalker]

@antonio3p1 You just contradicted yourself, the reason they aren't using their $4Trillion is because they don't have the money to pay for taxes and regulation?

Look man, since the recession began they have put $2.2Trillion in reserves. That's with the decline of business and the same tax system/regulations. What facts do you even have to say that it's because of business regulation? What they said on Neal Cavuto?

The tax rate is 35% but with deductions they actual pay 17%(including state tax)!

[Paulsasleepwalker]

@antonio3p1 Wal-Mart does, but to have 9 people sit on $170BILLION, it's honestly disgusting while 97% of your workers get paid minimum wage & you have them work part time so you don't have to give them benefits.

I said only 9% of the top 1% are not job creators, not that they're not job creators. 65% are Lawyers, Executives or work in the Medical, Tech, Real Estate fields. If you raise their taxes to 42% like they were in the Clinton years where we created 23MILLION jobs how do you kill them?

[antonio3p1]

@Paulsasleepwalker How can you say that the 1% don't create jobs? Doesn't Wal-Mart fit in the 1%? Look at how many jobs they've created.

What's laughable is liberals like you and people in congress saying that there's in no such thing as rich job creators. Even small business men are usually millionaires if they have employees.

Let me tell you not all people in the 1% work for Goldman Sachs please get it through your head. Without the rich our economy would be fucked.

[antonio3p1]

@Paulsasleepwalker No common sense told me that! The reason they're not using the money now is because the economy has been fucked up by regulations and overtaxing which has killed the middle class.

Those people are going to use that money at some point and will employ and hire people.

If you really want the American economy to be strong again you need low taxes to create jobs. Don't you get that?

This is also a moral problem. You can't just take money away from people.

[antonio3p1]

@Paulsasleepwalker The ONLY way to solve this mess is to shrink government and take away federal power. Replacing our current politicians with saints and angels who are never going to corrupt is impossible.

You're relying on having good people in government but as we can see through history and as most people know power always corrupts. Therefor we have to give government as little power as possibly so that if we get a bad persons in government they won't be able to do much harm.