i actually mailed copies of this to Mississippi's two Senators and our Representative yesterday (8-24-17) although what i deleted didn't show to them:

Sir,

     Here are a couple of facts you might want to check: In 1989 the wealthiest 3% controlled as much wealth in this country as the bottom 50% combined; 2016 was the year that the rich getting richer resulted in the top 1% controlling as much as the bottom 50%. (2019 note: the figure this year was that the top 1% controls as much as the bottom ninety percent [90%])
     Speaking for perhaps the bottom 66%, we are not at all interested in Medicaid being tossed to the states like a distasteful bone. Medicare for everybody is, like Sen. Sanders says, an acceptable solution. And the richer you are the more you should pay.
     Nor do we wish to hear even talk of tax breaks for the top 25% say; no, we want tax increases on them, and we want a firm 50% death tax if you will, with retroactive power to go back decades and seize fortunes from heirs.
(Kathleen insisted I delete the next two paragraphs:
     Matthew 25 addresses Judgment Day, which we intuitively believe in, and says when we feed the hungry and clothe the naked and shelter the homeless we are doing it to Him (‘Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.’; and it goes on to say “as you do it not to the least” you do it not to Him. Strong’s Concordance says brethren there should be translated: “Brother[s], literal or figurative, near or remote” and Vines Expositor Dictionary defines it simply as “mankind.”
     The book which has been translated into more languages than any book except the Bible says, “The way of heaven is to take from those who have to much, and give to those who do not have enough. Man’s way is different.”)
     Take a trillion dollars from the top ten percent and fund the infrastructure bill and put a lot of people to work for a few years. Make it a sliding scale with the scale escalating appropriately for the amount of wealth involved. I bet it wouldn’t be a five percent fee for even the 5th through the 10th percentile.
     Then maybe we can do something about the eight thousand (8,000) children in the world who will die today of hunger, of slow starvation.
     Thank you for your time and attention.




joel parker and Kathleen Sullivan
300 Ford Dr
Petal, MS 39465

copies to Sens. Cochran and Wicker and Rep. Palazzo
(please disseminate)

_to Change It All's very lame home page