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Demands
I took a shower. Put my nice shirt and pants on. Wore a belt. Heading down to OccupyDenver. Here are my demands:
- Campaign finance reform, including overturning Citizens United, so that corporations have less influence in democracy.
- Revise the tax code, particularly capital gains, so that the wealthiest Americans pay at least as much, if not more, than the rest of us.
- Repeal government subsidies for well established companies such as oil, gas, and agriculture which do not need support and closing tax loopholes that allow these multi-billion dollar corporations to avoid paying taxes.
- Make the banks pay back the bailout either directly or in the form of debt forgiveness for Americans. This may seem unfair but we bailed them out they now owe us.
- Break up banks so that “Too Big To Fail” can never happen again
Who says the 99% doesn’t have a message? I have heard some other nice ideas like requiring that companies have a maximum discrepancy between max and min pay for their employees and requiring legislators excuse themselves from voting on bills that effect their donors but these are extra. I have also heard a lot of stupid ideas but I will ignore those for now. Maybe this movement will at lest give politicians some backbone to stand up and get some things fixed.
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