Only we little people are going to get this problem addressed.
Corporations are the problem. They are too big and too powerful, own too many legislators, handcuff workers with health care benefits (which single-payer would solve), rat-hole money like squirrels do acorns in the fall and are generally devoid of moral principles.
My economics professor convinced me the U.S. economy is driven by consumerism: about 70 percent of the gross national product.
So it is simple. We have to rebuild and expand the middle class.
Those in the middle class buy. The poor cannot buy. Nor can the rich spend all they acquire. Money has to be pushed into the general populace.
A fix is simple. One, end the corporate income tax, and two, insist all corporations pay profits to shareholders as earned (just as LLC and Subchapter S corporations do).
Corporations have piled up trillions of dollars in cash stashed around the world. It is not invested, nor spent, nor used for any useful purpose, except now and then to buy and squash upstarts.
It is going to be an uphill fight all the way.
Ron Platt
Overland Park
