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In my teen years LBJ declared war on poverty, and I remember seeing documentaries on the conditions of the poor and clearly the conditions I thought might be exaggerated in fiction, actually existed.

When I was 15 years old my father decided to be a missionary in the State of Wisconsin. On the moving van he hung a banner that read: We’re taking the SIN out of WisconSIN. He was going to convert the Lutheran’s and Catholics and snatch their souls from hell. Milwaukee was culture shock to me,
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What I saw in 1965 were the worst living conditions I’d ever seen, blatant oppression and unfairness, and seething anger that grew and thrived in the heart of desperation. I developed certain beliefs that now have such a powerful hold on me. Volunteer groups will never address the basic needs of the helpless and disadvantaged. I know this to be true, because,
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I have no problem with the progressive income tax because I believe in the word sufficiency. There is a point where a person has all the money he needs. Reaching sufficiency may be far off, but it does exist. Let’s take John McCain as an example. I don’t actually think of John McCain as super rich. I think he is rich. I even believe John McCain is very rich, but I do not believe McCain is super rich. But during the Presidential campaign we all learned that John McCain owns 6 houses. Billionaires only have two feet, and their wives and kids only have two feet per person. How many shoes do billionaires need before they have all the shoes they need and "they don’t need no more?" Perhaps the superrich need 6 or 8 or 12 mansions. Maybe the super rich need three huge luxury yachts, but is there a point where a super rich person has all the shoes and houses and yachts that they need? I believe a rich person has a right to get as rich as their talent will allow. I believe the super rich must be allowed to keep enough money to live the way rich people have always lived, but once they reach the level of super rich,
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I want to share some statistics that illustrated just how rich the rich are, and how poor the rest of us are.

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The bottom 40 percent of all income earners in the United States now collectively own less than 1 percent of the nation’s wealth.

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While I feel certain I am never going to earn even $75,000 per year, never, ever, not in a million years, there are plenty of American’s who believe it might be possible for them to maybe earn $250,000 a year and if they do, they don’t want to be knocked down by a big tax obligation.

If people won’t voluntarily give money to take adequate care of the vulnerable, and if people use political movements to cut taxes to the bone, then these needs of our civilization are not going to be met. The anti tax movement seems to think that if taxes are minimized, or eliminated, they would have money in their pocket and still get to live in the America that have right now. That won’t happen. If you keep the tax dollars in your pocket, then you have to cut stuff. Some of the cut ideas advocated by Tea Bag Republicans include cutting health care to children and veterans,
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