Normally, the Democratic Presidential Candidate would be the one clearly winning the Income Inequality Narrowing Issue. But not with the present makeup of the Democrats in the US Congress.
Nearly all Democrats in the US Congress say they are for Income Inequality Narrowing but more than half of the US Democratic Senators continually vote for further expansion of Income Inequality.
I have a lot more respect for a Republican US Senator who says he/she is not for Income Inequality Narrowing and votes consistently for Income Inequality Expansion than I do for a US Senator who goes on and on about how he/she is for Income Inequality Narrowing but then deceptively and continually votes for Income Inequality Expansion on nearly all critical legislation.....just to name two of the many.....Chuck Schumer and Mark Warner.
There have been two critical very recent pieces of legislation that are substantial Income Inequality Expanding.
The first one was the 2015 US Federal Government Spending bill which was passed last night. There are many portions of it which are Income Inequality Expanding, but there are three portions of it which are particularly massive Income Inequality Expanding:
- Putting US taxpayers on the hook financially for huge Derivative Losses from Gambling by Financial Institutions.
- Increasing the maximum amount US citizens can contribute to political campaigns tenfold to more than $3 million.
- Permitting Companies to cut their monthly pension payments to retired employees by up to 50%.
- Harry Reid
- Chuck Schumer
- Dick Durbin
- Patty Murray
- Pat Leahy
- Debbie Stabenow
- Mark Begich
- Tammy Baldwin
- Michael Bennet
- Ben Cardin
- Tom Carper
- Bob Casey
- Chris Coons
- Joe Donnelly
- Kay Hagan
- Martin Heinrich
- Heidi Heitkamp
- Tim Johnson
- Tim Kaine
- Mary Landrieu
- Barb Mikulski
- Chris Murphy
- Bill Nelson
- Mark Pryor
- Jay Rockefeller
- Brian Schatz
- Jeanne Shaheen
- Mark Udall
- Tom Udall
- John Walsh
- Mark Warner
It should be interesting to see which Democratic US Senators will vote for these Insidious Tax Extenders. When I publish the list, you are going to see many of the above names appearing again and some new names. Any names on both lists should be targeted in their next Democratic primary by a candidate who is a true Income Inequality Narrower.