Sound Off! Senate Rejects Buffet Rule

Hello Heisters!

We just MUST sound off on the Senate's recent rejection of the Buffett Rule, the tax plan which would apply a minimum tax of 30 percent to individuals making more than a million dollars a year.

Ask yourselves: what better example do we have of the institutionalized greed that now rules our country? According to Gallup, over 60 percent of Americans supported the Buffett Rule and CNN has the number at 72%. Regardless, our ELECTED representatives cannot even BEGIN to take the slightest step towards reducing income inequality in this country.

American style democracy has always been based on income equality. Yet a small number of ideologically (market fundamentalism) driven elites beginning in the 1970s understood well that if they could buy our government, they could then re-write the laws (lobbying) to favor big money which would  pave the way to unlimited riches for themselves.

And then, lest we forget, buy the media to cover their crimes to the point where today the notion of reducing income inequality has become a radical, heretical idea. The injustices at the core of these questions and or determination to find real answers to this crisis is what drove Donald and me to make Heist.


Onward!
Frances and Donald