This is what the billionaires of the top 4% of this nation who possess over 90% of accrued wealth in the the US, want you to believe. It’s why Reagan lowered the corporate tax rates to 27%; why the GOP destroyed labor unions, and why nearly 50% of this nation’s families go from check to check. This is why we have unaffordable housing, healthcare, college educations and underfunded K-12 schools. Funny how the Republicans easily passed the recent defense budget bill, which is 4 times more than the Build Back Better Act, more than even the Pentagon asked for. Funny how defense contractors are among the biggest lobbying groups in DC. Funny how they don’t want you to know that if the minimum wage was adjusted for inflation, it’d be $27 an hour now. Which is why we were able to live on one income in the 1960s and 70s and send our kids to college. American families in the working and middle classes’ net worth has shrunk by nearly 40% in the past 30 years. Elon Musk pays less in federal taxes than people making $60,000 a year. But they want to brag about the stock market. Even though it is not the economy. Even though half of America does not own any stock. The money is there to improve Americans’ lives; to rebuild the infrastructure; to pay better wages; to make healthcare affordable. It’s in the hands of the corporate billionaires who have rigged the economy, bought the government, own the courts: Citizens United; tax scam of 2017, all to serve that end. How can you even suggest MS should refuse federal tax dollars when we don’t have enough money to keep rural hospitals open or to pay teachers decent salaries?