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A criminal gang has taken power
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A criminal gang has taken power. They’ve stolen elections; corrupted campaign financing; started illegal wars; tortured; held innocent prisoners without trial; invaded the privacy of Americans; politicized Justice; packed the Courts; reversed decades of judicial precedent; corrupted government agencies; crashed the economy by reckless deregulation, privatization, and mismanagement; bankrupted the US Treasury; manipulated and consolidated […]
Look who doesn't pay their fair share
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Using aggregated income tax data from the IRS for 2012, I calculated some statistics about zipcodes in Washington State and nationally. As you can see from the first chart near the end of this article, the average income in Medina, WA (home of the world’s richest man, Bill Gates) is $625,056. That’s over twice the […]