This is the Tom Hartman program.

Greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice,

believers in peace, freedom, and the great

great Republican tax scam and hopefully if Brian Darling will call into the number that he's got on his Skype screen

so that we can

get broadcast quality audio for him we can put him on the air but I can't use

Skype audio here. The median household income now, this from Zach Carter over at

Having imposed, has grown by just 1.5%, 839 a year since 2008. 1.5%. Yet the economic output of the United States has grown 10 times that

rate, roughly 15%. The stock market has grown 40%, half of all the gains

from the sale of stocks and bonds accrued households that make over a million

dollars a year.

The 400 wealthiest households take three quarters of their very substantial annual incomes,

Zek Carter writes, from financial investments. This is not about stimulating growth or

investment. This is class war, he writes. So basically the Republicans they want to

have a six trillion trillion tax cut.

One and a half trillion of that,

they're just right up, right on the front end

since they already passed a budget

that raised the debt ceiling by a trillion and a half dollars.

The first trillion and a half of that is coming from just, you know,

eliminating or just raising the death ceiling and raising the U.S. debt,

which is like crazy.

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