{"id":23192,"date":"2019-04-16T04:03:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T04:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=e9dbe4c7b6f1429aadca13c8a5ba712f"},"modified":"2019-04-16T04:03:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T04:03:51","slug":"how-momentum-is-growing-to-tax-the-rich-and-reduce-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2019\/04\/16\/how-momentum-is-growing-to-tax-the-rich-and-reduce-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"How Momentum Is Growing To Tax The Rich And Reduce Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle of the last century, there was a large and secure working class. Then, changes to the tax structure distributed more and more of the wealth to the richest and hollowed out the middle class. Now, levels of inequality in the United States are unsustainable as the top one-tenth of one percent (0.1%) has wealth equal to the bottom 80%. Momentum is growing to make the tax system more fair at both the state and federal levels. We speak with Sam Pizzigati about the history of taxes and what policies are currently being proposed.<\/p> <p>Subscribe to Clearing the FOG on Patreon and receive our bonus show, Thinking it Through, plus Clearing the FOG totes, water bottles and T shirts. Visit\u00a0<a class=\"vglnk\" href=\"http:\/\/patreon.com\/ClearingtheFOG\" rel= \"nofollow\">Patreon.com\/ClearingtheFOG<\/a>.<\/p> <p>And visit the new Popular Resistance Podcast Network at\u00a0<a class=\"vglnk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.popularresistance.org\/prpn\/\" rel= \"nofollow\">www.PopularResistance.org\/prpn\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/clearingthefogradioshow.libsyn.com\/how-momentum-is-growing-to-tax-the-rich-and-reduce-inequality\">Clearing the FOG with co-hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle of the last century, there was a large and secure working class. Then, changes to the tax structure distributed more and more of the wealth to the richest and hollowed out the middle class. Now, levels of inequality in the United States a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23193,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23192\/revisions\/23193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}