ED ASNER ANIMATED SHORT LAYS IT ALL OUT

Our nation easily creates enough wealth to pay for everything we need. The only problem is that an extraordinarily small percentage of the population has rigged the system in order to take the vast majority of that wealth for itself. Possessing a cultural love for "the market" as well as the naive belief that someday you, too, will be rich, everybody behaves as though this massive wealth imbalance is somehow the natural state of affairs.

But it's not.

That is, we don't have a deficit problem, don't have a debt problem. We certainly don't have a spending problem, unless you think we're not spending enough. We have a tax problem. We don't make the wealthy pay their fair share.

Instead, we argue over which programs to cut. It just doesn't have to be this way.

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