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The Hartmann Report

Why Dismantle the Middle Class?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

Congress, Economics, Climate Change, The Hartmann Report, Debate, Democracy, America, Thom Hartmann, News

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Republicans think the middle class can't be trusted to run the country. How have Reagan and his followers succeeded in massively transferring wealth upward to the very rich?- and what have been the long term political consequences?

Plus - Thom reads from 'One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America' by Kevin M. Kruse.

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This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:47.4

I wanted to start out with my rant today from HartmanReport.com.

0:50.8

It's titled Zoomers Last Chance for the American Dream.

0:53.6

It's a long piece, it's kind of a roundup piece of a lot of thinking that I've shared

0:57.3

with you for a lot of years. It starts out by asking a bunch of questions that I don't think most

1:02.1

people even think of as serious questions because it's just like, hey, it's the way it is.

1:07.8

It's like you don't question, you know, is there air that I'm breathing out? Of course, it's right there.

1:11.9

Because it's been this way so long, but what is going on with Republicans?

1:17.4

Student loan forgiveness, Biden's program, the two states that sued didn't even have standing

1:22.7

before the court. Justice Elena Kagan said this court exercises authority it does not have a

1:28.1

violates the Constitution. She said this is no proper role for the court. It's a danger to

1:33.2

democratic order. Why is it that the Republican attorneys general are suing to end student

1:39.1

debt relief when from the GI Bill experience we discovered that for every dollar we invest in

1:44.3

educating young people with college, for free college, we get seven dollars in national returns,

1:50.0

including well over a dollar in additional tax revenue and well over six additional dollars

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