Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 11/23/18 - Thom takes on the growing gulf of income inequality from a Progressive perspective, taking listener questions. And as the congressional Progressives become the largest caucus within the Democratic Party, House leader and co-chair of the Progressive caucus Mark Pocan humbly has a meeting of the minds with the people on the many pressing issues, from the Saudis to wildlife with stops for immigrants, guns, and the latest Republican con-jobs.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 23 November 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Thom launches a discussion on the growing extremes of income inequality, and adroitly takes the issues callers raise on this question. ------- Thom reads from Lawrence O'Donnel's new book- 'Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics'. ------- As congressional Progressives flex their newfound muscles as the largest caucus in the House, Thom once again welcomes the Co-Chair of the House Progressive Caucus, Mark Pocan. Topics include congressional priorities, Trump's official policy of selling out to the Saudis, the kids starving in Yemen as the Saudis continue to drop American bombs, the possible impossibility of bipartisanship, a less-than-shiny new A.G. Whitaker, the delisting of wolves and failing to protect wilderness, immigrants, racism, guns, our reality star president, and sneaky Republican riders & procedural shenanigans likely in the lame duck session. ------- Marcy in Elgin, Texas is tired of hearing Republicans talk about mobs, when the constitution protects our rights to peaceably assemble.
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| 0:40.5 | Between 1913, Robert Reich writes, and |
| 0:43.0 | 1928, which is when the great crash happened in 29 the next year. |
| 0:47.8 | Between 1913 and 1928, the ratio of personal debt |
| 0:51.4 | to the total national economy nearly doubled and that's |
| 0:56.9 | what's happening right now you've got 80% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck and household debt is in an all-time high, |
| 1:05.4 | 13 trillion dollars. |
| 1:09.6 | And so what do you do? |
| 1:10.9 | I think the answer is fairly simple and fairly straightforward. |
| 1:15.5 | We need to repeal the Trump tax cuts, repeal the Bush tax cuts, and repeal the Reagan tax cuts and |
| 1:24.0 | take us back to a tax policy both personal and corporate |
| 1:28.2 | that we had from from the 1940s until the 1980s that produced four decades of the strongest |
| 1:37.2 | economic growth in the history of our nation, averaging 3% GDP growth every year over each one of those decades. |
| 1:45.0 | There were variations some year to year of course, but... |
| 1:48.0 | And if we simply did that, if we just repealed those tax cuts |
| 1:52.0 | so that the wealthy were once again |
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