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Related: About this forumThe 3 Biggest Myths Blinding Us to the Economic Truth by Robert Reich
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
1. The job creators are CEOs, corporations, and the rich, whose taxes must be low in order to induce them to create more jobs. Rubbish. The real job creators are the vast middle class and the poor, whose spending induces businesses to create jobs. Which is why raising the minimum wage, extending overtime protection, enlarging the Earned Income Tax Credit, and reducing middle-class taxes are all necessary.
2. The critical choice is between the free market or government. Baloney. The free market doesnt exist in nature. Its created and enforced by government. And all the ongoing decisions about how its organized what gets patent protection and for how long (the human genome?), who can declare bankruptcy (corporations? homeowners? student debtors?), what contracts are fraudulent (insider trading?) or coercive (predatory loans? mandatory arbitration?), and how much market power is excessive (Comcast and Time Warner?) depend on government.
3. We should worry most about the size of government. Wrong. We should worry about who government is for. When big money from giant corporations and Wall Street inundate our politics, all decisions relating to #1 and #2 above become rigged against average working Americans.
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The 3 Biggest Myths Blinding Us to the Economic Truth by Robert Reich (Original Post)
Crewleader
Mar 2015
OP
The biggest thing preventing people from seeing the economic truth is ...
1StrongBlackMan
Mar 2015
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1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)1. The biggest thing preventing people from seeing the economic truth is ...
article upon article upon OP lamenting the problem; but, a complete lack of convincingly, workable solutions.
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)3. Reich's ideas for tackling inequality
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)5. I'm familar with Reich's solutions ...
and I agree with them ... but I said convincingly workable.
The fact that few of them are being implemented, means they have not risen to the point of being either not convincing, or workable.
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)2. K&R
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)4. The Guy as usual nails it.