From Rutherford B. Hayes, President of america (1877-1881):“In church it occurred to me that it’s time for the general public to listen to that the enormous evil and hazard on this nation, the hazard which transcends all others, is the huge wealth owned or managed by a couple of individuals. Cash is energy. In Congress, in state legislatures, in metropolis councils, within the courts, within the political conventions, within the press, within the pulpit, within the circles of the educated and the gifted, its affect is rising higher and higher. Extreme wealth within the arms of the few means excessive poverty, ignorance, vice, and wretchedness because the lot of the numerous.”
Right here we now have the rationale for overturning the 2010 U.S. Supreme Courtroom resolution “Residents United,” which grants companies the appropriate to spend as a lot cash as they want to management the end result of our elections and insure complete management over our lawmaking processes.
Will such a measure be ample to proper the ship? After all not, nevertheless it’s an important first step, to be taken together with restoring the taxation of the wealthy and companies that we had earlier than the “trickle-down economics” hoax of the Reagan period.
