South Carolina State House Update: Interview With Candace Carroll

And here’s the free commercial space for “Americans for Prosperity.” AFP is run by the billionaire Koch brothers who control the GOP. They don’t mean prosperity for the average American–they mean prosperity for their billionaire buds. And that’s working out just great for them, we’ve never had more billionaires or millionaires in the US. But as recent studies have shown, the promised return to the average middle class citizen, aka “trickle down” hasn’t worked. You wanna know why we don’t have good schools and roads? Look at AFP’s grip on the SC Legislature (and the US GOP at large). You want real prosperity? Think back to the 50’s and 60’s when America was at it’s most prosperous. A single middle-class salary could pay for a home. Today, it’s a stretch for double-income families. The marginal tax rate between 1945 and 1981 for those at the very top of the income bands was 70-91%. Reaganomics was ushered in during the 1980’s and the pay gap and increase in billionaires and the real war on the middle class income began. If you make over $168,000 a year, you don’t have to pay social security taxes–nothing, nada. And what was Fox pushing yesterday? Rand Paul with the “We have to cut social security and medicare” mantra so they can cut taxes again on the 1%. Don’t believe for one single second they wouldn’t do it because they are telling you right now in plain English, what they plan to do–more cuts for them and no social security–which the average worker has paid into all their lives, will be gone. Think about that before you go to vote this year. I mean, I do have to give the Koch’s some credit here for coming up with a name for their little tax lobbying scam as it sounds as if it should benefit ALL Americans, but the last 45+ years of the war against the middle class suggests otherwise. Just remember that the next time Will decides to give the AFP more space here to spew their propaganda or you hear someone on Fox or a GOP politician flogging the “cut entitlements” crap.