Posted on 09/23/2016 1:37:55 PM PDT by Nachum
President Obama´s economic advisers boasted Friday that he has presided over a "historic" lowering of income inequality, and presented a paper saying that Obamacare and higher taxes on the rich have reduced inequality. "Over the last eight years, President Obama has overseen the largest increase in federal investment to reduce inequality since the Great Society," the White House Council of Economic Advisers concluded in the paper. Jason Furman, the head of the council, also published an op-ed in the Washington Post making the same case. Taking into account all of Obama´s tax hikes for high earners, tax cuts for poor families, and
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“The misery will be shared equally”
Except for my wall street buddies and the elite.
Yeah, we’ll all be in the Poor House.
And if you don’t vote for Hillary, Obama will be personally insulted and take it as a slap against his legacy.
How many of you will slap down Obama’s legacy?? How many of you are so fearful of slighting Obama, that you will now vote for Hillary instead, so that Obama won’t be mad at you???
Where can i get what he is smoking?
Too bad he couldn’t reach full perfection.
When nobody has any income, things are perfect.
He moved 90 million people in that direction.
Nice try. He was shooting for 100%.
They don’t make them much dumber than our president. He pisses in a pitcher and tells us to make lemonade.
Lowering the income equality really means that working Americans are paying way too much in welfare tax thereby reducing their take home pay to almost that of a welfare recipient.
Yep. Everybody in the cemetery is equally dead, too. That doesn’t mean it’s how they wanted it.
Sure. Great job he did! We’re now all equally poor. What a jackass this piece of crap is.
Yeah, they made every one poorer.
So class warfare goons, rejoice! Your dream of equal opportunity misery is being achieved!
I asked my boss to fire me the other day so I could get a pay raise.
These creeps are delusional.
1 plus trillion in welfare spending for 2015 helps close the gap plus free college tuition, AA to the best schools and on and on.
ø would have us on the road islam.
Good one. Just put it on Twitter.
He’s a scumbag, the dirty son-of-a-bit**. I hope he enjoys his damned retirement. What a jerk.
Since the lowest economic level is zero income, and there will ALWAYS be people with zero income, the only way to reduce income inequality is to make the rich poorer.
This is not a viable solution.
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