Spearhead wrote:
Probably
campaign finance reform
in what form? repealing Citizens United? Sure, but you'll have to ban unions and PACs from contributing.
reinstatement of glass-steagal
for what purpose? deposits are already covered by the FDIC insurance that banks pay on every deposit
end of wars
Change.
back to normal tax rates
What's a 'normal' tax rate? The 90% the wealthy paid under FDR?
Total US Tax Revenue as a Percentage of GDP For as much as the tax rates have been monkeyed around with, that's a very stable line.
So is this one.
Government spending as percent of GDPJust speculation. But I think "99" percent of them would agree with that.
They are refusing to pick sides because, unlike the tea party phonies they are largely independent and do not want to be co-opted by the dems.
So because of that you get the anarchists, communists, etc. and people who do not know what they're talking about and do not really represent much of the movement. Kinda like the racists in the tea party.
Whatever the '99 percent' have in common with tea party views is very superficial. End the wars, fine, whatever, at this point who cares? I don't hear the Tea Party begging the government for handouts in the form of student loan forgiveness (or complete debt forgiveness in some cases). If you hadn't heard, we're broke. Medicare and Social Security costs are spiking for the next thirty years and we don't have the money to pay for it. Yet these fools want more spending because academia is still holding the torch for Marxism and brainwashes nearly every kid that goes to college.