Things I’m Thinking About Tonight

Jimmy Carter, the Republican Tax Bill and Citizen’s United

This is a quote from an interview with Jimmy Carter after the Supreme Court decision in Citizen’s United

“As the rich people finance the campaigns, when candidates get in office they do what the rich people want. And that’s to let the rich people get richer and richer and the middle class get left out. All the statistics show that the middle class are stagnant or going down in their income for the work that they do.”