Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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>>>Please list the part of the constitution that mandated economic equality<<<


Who said economic equality?

US Constitution - preamble:

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html


How do you insure domestic tranquility and promote general welfare by systematically screwing the middle class in favor of billionaires? If you accept that the federal budget is a zero sum game, then whatever tax break you give Exxon will have to be made up somewhere else and that somewhere else has been the middle class for a long while now. And if you also accept that consumer consumption is the main driver of the economy, how do you make the case that flogging the average consumer is good policy?