- Share links: race or racism. This article was written by Timeshifter, and is in the public domain. See: Drug war causes high U.S. incarceration rate. And: Influential black cannabis users. And: The U.S. Drug War. Republicans lead. And: Vote out most US Republicans and their cannabis war.
7 Oct 2020. Dumping Trump is the only way marijuana legalization will happen | Leafly. From the article:
| rural sheriffs have become legalization’s most vocal opponents, for obvious reasons. ... The imagined “smell of marijuana” offers deputies a pretext to stop and search whomever they choose. And of course they mostly choose Black people ... Civil asset forfeiture laws give cops in rural outposts the power to seize the cash, vehicles, and assets of any citizen based solely on a drug charge. Not a conviction. All it takes is a charge. For these rural sheriffs, marijuana prohibition is a powerful tool of white supremacy |
![New York Times article and video on epic fail of drug war. Narrated by (Shawn Carter). Sept. 15, 2016. [1][2][3][4].](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/cannabis/images/f/f7/War_on_Drugs._Iwo_Jima._By_Molly_Crabapple.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160918171425)
New York Times article and video on epic fail of drug war. Narrated by Jay Z (Shawn Carter). Sept. 15, 2016. [1][2][3][4].
23 Mar 2017: Let's Reform the Criminal (In)justice System | Ben & Jerry’s. The racism of the Criminal (In)justice System, and the drug war.
KKK's racist holy war.
See 2004 article source. And Wikipedia: Ron Reagan.
| The majority of people incarcerated in prisons and jails in the USA are in due to drug-related offenses, crimes to get money for drugs, or drug-related parole or probation violations. Wikipedia: Drug-related crime. The number of inmates in the USA has increased almost 5 times over since 1980. It peaked in 2008. Obama's Democrat landslide in 2008 turned the incarceration rate around. The cost of the U.S. drug war is at least 1.5 trillion dollars. Cannabis is safer! Share link. |
Mass incarceration due to the drug war began in the 1980's due to Republican-led hysteria about marijuana, followed up by whipping up fear of black men and crack cocaine. See: The American Drug Panic of the 1980s. Chapter 12 of Moral Panics: The Social Construction of Deviance. See: Drug war, mandatory minimum sentencing, handguns, homicide rates.
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| U.S. adult male incarceration rate is astronomical compared to the rest of the world. For both whites and blacks. But especially for blacks. Rates in the USA peaked in 2008, and declined slowly after that under Obama. Obama became President in January 2009. |
Chart is from: U.S. Has World's Highest Incarceration Rate. 2012 article. Rates peaked in 2008.
New Republican governor of Kentucky removes voting rights of all felons for their entire lives. [11]. A RepubliKKKan dream. Dec. 23, 2015 article.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions
Attorney General Jeff Sessions Is a Drug War Dinosaur. [12]. And: More than 1,100 law school professors nationwide oppose Sessions’s nomination as attorney general. And: MSNBC Guest: Upcoming Attorney General Jeff Sessions Is a ‘KKK Sympathizer’. And: Sessions: KKK "was O.K. until I found out they smoked pot." [13]. And: Sessions Racism Accusations: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know. [14]. See: Race, ethnicity, and drug war. And: US News & World Report. Activists Roll Joint, Offer Free Pot at Jeff Sessions Office as Threats Swirl to Legalization Framework. [15]. Viral video.
Racism, interracial marriage, public opinion
It is long past time to end Nixon's racist drug war, [16], and the "Southern Strategy".
Interracial Marriage Highest It's Ever Been in the U.S. May 19, 2017. Newsweek. From the article: "Attitudes toward mixed marriages have shifted even more drastically when considering American views on the matter back in 1990, when 63 percent of non-black adults said they would be completely or somewhat opposed to a family member marrying a black person. In 2015, only 14 percent of non-black adults surveyed said they wouldn’t agree with a relative marrying a black person.
Incarceration by race
- Black men below poverty line have lowest overall survival. By Stephen Feller. July 18, 2016. See also: Canadian single-payer healthcare and Portuguese drug decriminalization.
Incarceration gap widens between whites and blacks. Pew Research Center. September 6, 2013.
- Number incarcerated in the USA peaked in 2008.
- The Drug War, Mass Incarceration and Race. June 12, 2015. Drug Policy Alliance.
- Race and Prison | Drug War Facts: "Human Rights Watch’s analysis of prison admission data for 2003 revealed that relative to population, blacks are 10.1 times more likely than whites to be sent to prison for drug offenses."
- Chart below from: The meteoric, costly and unprecedented rise of incarceration in America. By Emily Badger, April 30, 2014. The Washington Post.
Drug arrest rates by race (per 100,000 population).
European alternatives
Return to top. See also: Alternatives to Republican-led mass incarceration.
Look at the decreasing crime rates in the G7 countries in the chart to the right. All of the those countries except for the USA have low incarceration rates.
| Where have all the burglars gone? July 2013 article. See chart to the right. In contrast to Republican-led mass incarceration the article explains other methods that are lowering crime rates in countries with low incarceration rates. They also have few handguns. See also Wikipedia: Comparison of United States incarceration rate with other countries. |
Past month illicit drug use by race or ethnicity
Chart below. Past month illicit drug use. Age 12 or older, by race or ethnicity 2002-2010. Results from the 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Summary of National Findings. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality.
Over 100 years of drug war
See: Cost of U.S. drug war.
- Four of the Major Fear Campaigns That Helped Create America's Insane War on Drugs. By Phillip Smith / AlterNet. February 9, 2015. History of racist U.S. drug war since the 19th century.
- Canada: Emily Murphy: A pioneer in the war on pot. By Mark Bourrie. Sept. 30, 2012. National Post. "Emily Murphy ... made Canada the first Western country to launch a war on pot. She convinced the government to ban cannabis by writing a book that, if it came on the market today, would certainly fall under the hate crimes provision of the Criminal Code."
| 2015. 70th anniversary: Victory over fascism in WW2. 35th year: Reagan's cannabis war. Today, Republicans often block cannabis legislation state by state (except low-THC bills). U.S. federal narcotic law enforcement began in 1915. 1915 was also the year of Billie Holiday's birth. 2. The movie, "The Birth of a Nation," came out in 1915. Originally called The Clansman. First blockbuster movie. Roots of hate radio, Fox News, Nixon's racist Southern Strategy, and racist drug war. |
- The Drug War, Mass Incarceration and Race. See PDF. June 12, 2015. Drug Policy Alliance. See chart from the article:
| Chart is for December 31, 2012. Data comes from: Prisoners in 2013. From Table 14 of the PDF. By Bureau of Justice Statistics. |
Richard Nixon
| Nixon Aide Admitted Drug War Was Meant To Target Black People and Hippies. Intense racial targeting associated with the drug war wasn’t an unintended side effect — it was the whole point. And GOP mass incarceration helps in enforcing income inequality. |
GOP wars on brown people
The "War on Drugs". Why is everything a "war" or a "crusade" to Republicans? The war on drugs is a war on people.
George Carlin: Youtube: George Carlin: "We Like War!" 1992. "Especially if your country's full of brown people." (1 min 20 sec in. Direct link there). Bush's "crusade".
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- Trump said it was OK to "rough up" black protesters, and sent a racist tweet [17]. And you wonder why the Republican-led drug war is so racist.
- The Man Beaten And Choked At A Donald Trump Rally Tells His Story.
- 'Muslim-Free' Gun Store Now Selling George Zimmerman's Confederate Flag Paintings. 18 Aug 2015. You can't make this stuff up. And: [18].
- There's blatant inequality at nearly every phase of the criminal justice system (charts and article). By Andrew Kahn and Chris Kirk, Slate. 9 Aug 2015. Business Insider. [19]
- Racism and Mass Incarceration in the US Heartland: Historical Roots of the New Jim Crow. 27 November 2015. By James Kilgore. Truthout.
- Alicia Keys released a beautiful video to get 1 million signatures for prison reform. By Erica Williams Simon. 25 Nov. 2015. Upworthy.
All We Want Is Justice: Fighting for Eric Garner [20]. By Erica Garner and Reggie Harris. Dec. 3, 2015. Huffington Post. NYPD cop who killed Eric (I can't breathe) Garner with a banned chokehold is still on the payroll.
Cory Booker & Quentin Tarantino on Drug War
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Quentin Tarantino.
War on Drugs is Like Slavery.
Youtube link. Articles: Tarantino - War on Drugs is Like Slavery. [21]. Wikipedia: Quentin Tarantino. Source video. George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight, and The Young Turks.
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[7][8][9][10]. From June 2007. Click links for sources, and more recent quotes. Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, New Jersey: "I'm going to battle on this," the mayor says. "We're going to start doing it the gentlemanly way. And then we're going to do the civil disobedience way. Because this is absurd. I'm talking about marches. I'm talking about sit-ins at the state capitol. I'm talking about whatever it takes." Quote source.
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Race, ethnicity of inmates
2009 numbers in first 2 charts below. See charts source for more info.
Incarceration rates in the USA peaked in 2008.
2008 chart below is from page 8 of the PDF for a September 2010 report by The Pew Charitable Trusts: Collateral Costs. Incarceration's Effect on Economic Mobility. Numbers are for 2008.
Chart below has numbers for 2010, and is from:
- Chart of the Week: The black-white gap in incarceration rates. By George Gao, July 18, 2014, Pew Research Center. And: Charting the shocking rise of racial disparity in our criminal justice system. By Christopher Ingraham, July 15, 2014, The Washington Post. And: The Prison Boom and the Lack of Black Progress after Smith and Welch. By Derek Neal and Armin Rick, July 2014, National Bureau of Economic Research.
"On any given day in 2010, almost one in ten black men ages 20-39 were institutionalized". [22]. "Institutionalized" means incarcerated for the most part nowadays: "Few persons under age 50 are in nursing homes, and the populations housed in mental hospitals have declined greatly over the past three decades." [23]. See: US timeline of imprisonment and mental hospital rates. "By 2010, nearly a third of black, male high school dropouts aged 25-29 were imprisoned or otherwise institutionalized." [24].
More 2010 numbers in chart below. It is adapted fron this article: Chart: Black America's incarceration rate is almost 37 times as high as Canada's. By Dylan Matthews on October 16, 2014. Vox Xpress.
The 2010 rates in the above chart are per 100,000 of all ages. Except for black American men which is per 100,000 adults in 2010. More variations of the chart, and more sourcing info:
- Correctional Populations in the United States, 2010. NCJ 236319. Published December 15, 2011. By Lauren E. Glaze. U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. See appendix table 3 of the PDF.
- Inner-City Violence in the Age of Mass Incarceration. Oct. 30, 2014. The Atlantic.
- Incarceration is not an equal opportunity punishment. August 28, 2012. by Peter Wagner. Prison Policy Initiative.
Chart below is US timeline of adult male incarceration rates by race and ethnicity. From this article: Our penal system - Why Nations Fail. By Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson.
News
- Sex, drugs, and racist policing in Rutland, Vt. By Farah Stockman. 26 Aug 2015. Boston Globe.
- Cops "Smelled Weed", and Raped Woman Publicly in Gas Station Lot [25]. 6 Aug 2015.
- ‘I can’t breathe! I’m choking on my blood': Disturbing video of Black soldier dying in Texas jail. 20 May 2015 article. While serving "A two-day sentence for driving while intoxicated".
- After Rising Dramatically, Marijuana Arrests Are Falling In New York City And Across The Country. 20 Nov 2014. Forbes. From the article: "Low-level marijuana possession arrests by the New York Police Department (NYPD) skyrocketed from about 3,000 in 1994, when [Republican] Rudolph Giuliani took office as mayor, to more than 51,000 six years later. The crackdown continued during Michael Bloomberg’s administration, when the NYPD arrested an average of nearly 39,000 pot smokers each year, compared to 24,487 under Giuliani, 982 under David Dinkins, and 2,259 under Ed Koch". The Million Marijuana March started because of Giuliani. See: 1998 Million Marijuana March.
- Wikipedia: Death of Eric Garner. "I can't breathe". Black man choked to death on July 17, 2014 for selling "loosies" (single cigarettes) from packs without tax stamps. As of December 28, 2014, at least 50 demonstrations had been held nationwide specifically for Garner.
- 2014 New York City: Democrat Mayor de Blasio seeks mail-in payment for pot fines. He stopped Giuliani and Bloomberg's policy of arresting tens of thousands of brown people yearly for cannabis possession. [26][27][28]. See Saturday Night Live video.
Donald Andrews, Jr., owns a smoke shop in Scotia, New York.
- Black smoke shop owner’s surveillance cameras catch undercover informant planting crack at the behest of cops.
- The black/white marijuana arrest gap, in nine charts. By Dylan Matthews. 4 June 2013. Washington Post.
- The War on Marijuana in Black and White. 3 June 2013. American Civil Liberties Union.
- Fabrice Olivet talks to TalkingDrugs about race and drugs in France. By Rupert George, 22 Mar 2013.
- Former surgeon general Joycelyn Elders calls for marijuana legalization. By the CNN Wire Staff. 18 Oct 2010.
The new Jim Crow
- The New Jim Crow: How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste. NORML Blog. By: Russ Belville, NORML Outreach Coordinator. See Wikipedia: Jim Crow.
- Michelle Alexander's book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.
"At the bus station in Durham, North Carolina." Jim Crow in May 1940. Jack Delano, photographer. Image info.
US incarceration by state
Wikipedia: List of U.S. states and territories by incarceration and correctional supervision rate
Louisiana had, and may still have, the highest incarceration rate in the US. It had, and may still have, the highest rate in the world. Some racist Louisiana history:
- Louisiana's Republican Governor Bobby Jindal Denies Clemency to Non-Violent Pot Offenders. By Mike Adams, June 22, 2015. "Without a doubt, Louisiana is a veritable concentration camp for marijuana offenders, currently housing more prisoners for petty pot-related crimes than any other state in the nation—with some of these people forced to spend as much as 20 years in prison due to the state’s three-strike rule." See also:
- Petition · Grant Clemency to Bernard Noble, 13 years for 2 joints · Change.org. Louisiana's Republican governor needs to be voted out of office for denying this man's clemency. "Due to two, decades-old prior drug convictions, he was charged under the state’s habitual offender law and faced a mandatory sentence of thirteen and one-third years. ... A father of seven children and he works hard to support them. His youngest child suffers from autism, and another of his young children suffers from rheumatoid arthritis for which there is no cure. To support them he started two businesses, a janitorial service and a restaurant."
Billy Holiday hunted down
See: Billie Holiday
- How Billie Holiday Was Hunted Down In The Early Days Of The War On Drugs. By Johann Hari. April 9, 2015. From article (emphasis added):
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"To Anslinger, this [jazz] was musical anarchy, and evidence of a recurrence of the primitive impulses that lurk in black people, waiting to emerge. 'It sounded,' his internal memos said, 'like the jungles in the dead of night.' Another memo warned that 'unbelievably ancient indecent rites of the East Indies are resurrected' in this black man’s music.' ... 'Please prepare all cases in your jurisdiction involving musicians in violation of the marijuana laws. We will have a great national round-up arrest of all such persons on a single day.' ... But when Harry came for them, the jazz world would have one weapon that saved them: its absolute solidarity." |
| YouTube link [29]. Billie Holiday singing Strange Fruit. See lyrics in the Youtube description, or here. | |
William Randolph Hearst and Harry Anslinger
- Worth Repeating: Marijuana Prohibition and Sexual Politics. March 30, 2012. By Ron Marczyk, R.N.. Toke of the Town. From the article:
"The early black jazz musicians of the 1920s and 1930s blended their love of marijuana with sexuality. This music broke through the color barrier, and was enjoyed by both white and black audiences. Marijuana was the driving force for jazz, and it was the fear of the mixing of these races that drove the white elite. ... And who was the 1937 black star who was the model for stealing white women by using the reefer music that Hearst and Anslinger feared? Cab Calloway -- that funny, funny Reefer Man! ... The large number of songs glorifying marijuana use in the decade leading up to cannabis prohibition shows what a large part marijuana played in black culture and music. ... Hearst's hatred of Mexicans and his hyping of the 'Mexican threat' to America likely was rooted in the 800,000 acres of timberland that had been confiscated from him by Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution. The Hearst papers carried paid-for columns by both Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, rationalizing his relationship with the two men as one of 'helping to fight Communism.' However, during a continental tour Hearst actually attended the Nuremberg rally of 1934. He later completed a newsreel deal with Hitler during the trip!"
NAACP billboard. Lawsuit
"Welcome to America, home to 5% of the world's people & 25% of the world's prisoners." NAACP, ACLU File Lawsuit Against City of Philadelphia for Rejecting Criminal Justice Reform Ad. Article by NAACP. Lawsuit filed October 19, 2011 during the period of the Occupy movement. Also see the ad banner article by Courthouse News Service. The drug war and prisons are big business, and a big part of how the 1% controls the 99%. See Facebook comments about the banner. The Republican Party leads the racist drug war.
Incarceration peaked in the USA in 2008. <<--See that article for sources, stats, and charts for the banner. Most inmates are incarcerated due to the drug war.
Image info. See billboard and stats.
- Blacks in Government Say War on Drugs Is Racist. Article on Black Entertainment Television (BET) site. September 2, 2011. By Naeesa Aziz. "Another Black organization has added its voice to the growing number of groups and individuals who are publicly calling for the end of America’s war on drugs. ... In July [2011], the NAACP made a similar move and passed its own resolution calling for the end of the drug war and asking government to shift the focus to substance abuse treatment and education. The call for the end of drug criminalization and drug law reform has also been echoed by other organizations such as the National Black Police Association and the National Black Caucus of State Legislators, and is gaining momentum."
- GOP War On Voting Is Most Determined Disenfranchisement Effort Since Jim Crow. By Ian Millhiser. July 7, 2011. ThinkProgress.
- Inactive U.S. Marshal speaks about war on drugs. April 9, 2008. Collegiate Times. In the article Matthew Fogg, a black member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), and former Chief Deputy US Federal Marshal, is quoted: "Drug prohibition helps the US maintain a racial apartheid prison industrial complex."
Astronomical U.S. incarceration increase
| USA and territories. 2,424,279 inmates in 2008. ... |
| In 2008 with less than 5% of world population the USA had 2.4 million of 9.8 million world prisoners (b). See latest numbers and World Prison Population List. The majority of inmates in the USA are in due to the drug war. The number of inmates in the USA has increased almost 5 times over since 1980. It peaked in 2008. |
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Incarceration nation
Number incarcerated in the USA peaked in 2008.
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November Coalition graph. Some Congressmen and police who prosecuted the War on Drugs now believe it caused a large increase in the United States incarceration rate. See Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, and larger chart with sources. See template. Incarceration peaked in 2008. |
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  USA: Peak of 7.3 million people in 2007 under adult correctional supervision: On probation or parole, or incarcerated in jail or prison. About 3.2% of the U.S. adult population, or 1 in every 31 adults. More info here. See template. |
Minorities. US corrections
The number of people incarcerated in the USA peaked in 2008. The number of people in the correctional system as a whole (jail, prison, probation, parole) peaked in 2007.
Charts below are adapted from Race and Prison. DrugWarFacts.org
| U.S. corrections system. Jail, prison, probation, parole | |||||
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| 1990 | 2000 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | |
| TOTAL persons in system | 4,346,941 | 6,423,708 | 7,326,734 | 7,319,419 | 7,234,209 |
| Blacks and Hispanics in system | 2,351,516 | 3,309,566 | 3,622,726 | 3,607,341 | 3,611,911 |
| : Blacks and Hispanics % of TOTAL | 54.1% | 51.5% | 49.4% | 49.3% | 49.9% |
| Blacks in system | 1,614,195 | 2,347,066 | 2,446,834 | 2,453,170 | 2,472,920 |
| : Blacks % of TOTAL | 37.1% | 36.5% | 33.4% | 33.5% | 34.2% |
| Hispanic/Latinos in system | 737,321 | 962,500 | 1,175,892 | 1,154,171 | 1,138,991 |
| : Hispanics/Latinos % of TOTAL | 17.0% | 15.0% | 16.0% | 15.8% | 15.7% |
| Percent of inmates that are Black or Hispanic. Prisons and jails | |||||
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| 1990 | 2000 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | |
| Percent | 60.0% | 63.4% | 60.3% | 60.4% | 60.5% |
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Table below is from here:
- Correctional Populations in the United States, 2013 (NCJ 248479). Published December 2014 by U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). By Lauren E. Glaze and Danielle Kaeble, BJS statisticians. See appendix table 5 on page 13 in the PDF, for "Estimated number of persons supervised by adult correctional systems, by correctional status, 2000–2013."
Children of incarcerated
- Collateral Costs. Incarceration's Effect on Economic Mobility. Sept. 28, 2010. The Pew Charitable Trusts. From page 4 of PDF:
"One in 9 African American children (11.4 percent), 1 in 28 Hispanic children (3.5 percent) and 1 in 57 white children (1.8 percent) have an incarcerated parent."
Above chart is from page 19 of the PDF for a September 2010 report by The Pew Charitable Trusts: Collateral Costs. Incarceration's Effect on Economic Mobility.
Charts below are from page 8 of the same PDF. The numbers are for 2008.
Cannabis is safer
Return to top. Section link.
Full site / Mobile. To Top. Or End. See 2025 GMM-420 on Fandom and on Shoutwiki.
Note: The following sections are at: Cannabis and more. The big picture. On most WeedWiki pages.
Trump Calls for Death Penalty for Drugs (Again). And: Trump’s Ominous Acting-DEA Administrator Appointment. [30][31][32]. And: Trump: “We’re going to be asking everyone who sells drugs, gets caught, to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts”.
See article: Cannabis is safer. Cannabis is just one aspect of the drug war. See also: Beyond drug war, debt, and wealth concentration. To single-payer healthcare and progressive taxation. See: History of US Republican-led war on cannabis, and their lies about its health effects. Note the Republican states (in the South, for example) in the map below.
Legal for recreational use
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GOP War on the Poor
Return to top. Section link. See also: Trump GOP war on poor, sick, disabled, and drug users. Republican war on the poor, and middle class. Since low minimum wages lower wages above it too. The inflation-adjusted minimum wage peaked at over $14 in 1968 (see chart on page 2). It has halved in real value down to $7.25 today. The stolen wages went to Trump's billionaire club, and stayed there due to Reagan and Trump's gutting of progressive taxation via tax cuts for the rich. See CRS chart. "Study after study has found that raising minimum wages has a positive effect on employment." - John Driscoll, of Patriotic Millionaires.org - Sep 12, 2024 article. See Facebook: Patriotic Millionaires. And see many maps showing the failings of Republican states. [41] [42] [43]. GOP states overall (as in the South) have the worst cannabis laws, lowest minimum wages, worst healthcare, etc..
| US minimum wage would be $25.52 an hour in 2023 if it had kept up with productivity. The split coincided with Nixon's 1971 declaration of a War on Drugs. |
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| Wikipedia: List of US states by minimum wage. $7.25 states are majority Republican in both houses. Get PNG map noting GOP states. |
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| History of the US federal minimum wage. Over $14 (inflation-adjusted) peak in 1968. $7.25 an hour now due to Republican filibusters in the US Senate. |
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Billionaire tax rates
The minimal billionaire tax rates are maintained by the tyrannical 60% filibuster rule: What is the US Senate filibuster, and what would it take to eliminate it? Steep progressive tax rates on all types of billionaire income could be imposed by a simple majority through the nuclear option in the Senate.
See Wikipedia: Wealth inequality in the United States.
Google: Buy, Borrow, Die. Tax strategy of the rich to pay few taxes. See Google Images search, too. See the ProPublica video and articles: [45][46]. And other articles: [47][48][49][50].
First chart shows the absurdly low tax rate that billionaires pay on ALL their income, including untaxed capital and wealth gains.
| True US federal income tax rates for 4 very rich people if all wealth gains are counted as income. 2014 to 2018. See source. |
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Second chart shows the comparatively low tax rate that billionaires pay just on taxable income. So either way, billionaires pay a much lower percent of taxes than the middle class.
| Total taxes paid as a percent of taxable income for a few countries. By income group, and billionaires. |
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Republican states 2026
See article: US Republican (GOP) states. It is not just cannabis prohibition. Many maps showing the failings of GOP states. & Mirror. See category of these GOP-notated US maps. Note the GOP states in the South, for example. See category of these maps on the Wikimedia Commons.
In 2024 presidential election only 2 states voted unanimously red (Republican) or blue (Democrat) by county: Massachusetts and Oklahoma. You can google each of the rankings in the image below, and see that they are correct.
2024 election: Oklahoma map. And: Massachusetts map.
| See Fight for $15. US map below is percent of workers earning less than $15 per hour. Concerning the gray n/a states CEPR wrote: "States that had minimum wages of at least $15 and those that were between $14 and $15 were not analyzed." |
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All wealth to the top
Return to top. Section link. See Wikipedia: List of countries by household debt. All those stolen wages went to the minimally-taxed billionaire club that loaned it back to us. Since 1975, $79 Trillion Has Flowed From Bottom 90% to Top 1% in US: Analysis. Stephen Colbert satire video on billionaires. [53].
| Trends in the Distribution of Family Wealth, 1989 to 2022. Wealth concentration in 2022 dollars. Congressional Budget Office. |
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| Mean household net worth of the bottom 40% is in the red (in debt). See table 1. Image source. 2013 data. |
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| April 12, 2025 post. See source and comments. |
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| A Jan. 2, 2025 post at Facebook: Patriotic Millionaires. See source and comments. |
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Tax cuts for the rich
Return to top. Section link. See: 'Crystal Clear' Polling Shows Voters Oppose Trump's Tax Cuts for Rich. [54][55]. Tax cuts should only be for the middle class and poor; paid for by tax increases on the rich. Trump's 2024 election proposals cut taxes for the richest 5 percent, and raise taxes for other groups. 2025 proposal: New Projected Cost of Trump-GOP Tax Cuts for the Rich: 'Staggering' $7 Trillion. [56].
Trump tax proposals below. 2024 election. Average tax changes by income group in 2026. From: A Distributional Analysis of Donald Trump’s Tax Plan. Oct 7, 2024. Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
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Debt slavery by the rich
Tariffs (regressive taxes), low minimum wages, high medical and student loan debts. Republicans like them all. All wealth to the top. Loaned back to us to enslave us. Healthcare Insights: How Medical Debt Is Crushing 100 Million Americans.
See Wikipedia: List of countries by household debt. All those stolen wages went to the billionaire club that loaned it back to us. $36 trillion US national debt.
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Canadian healthcare
Save $1.5 trillion yearly
Save $1.5 trillion yearly in the US. Canada spent 11.2 percent of its GDP for total healthcare costs in 2022. US spent 16.6 percent in 2022. 5.4% is the difference. 5.4% of US GDP is $1.5 trillion dollars in 2022. Universal single-payer healthcare savings, and progressive taxation, could pay off the $36 trillion US national debt. Total average healthcare spending per person in 2022: $6,319 for Canada. $12,555 for the US. Yet Canadians have a longer average lifespan. Share link.
Save another couple hundred billion dollars a year by making age 17 the age of adulthood. This saves $15,663 on average in taxes for one year of US high school. Parents save a year of living expenses. Use it all for college and trade schools which is much more useful and desired. Cut taxes further by lowering US incarceration rates to Canadian and Western European levels. See Short PNG image of table below (for sharing on social media). The US can have BETTER healthcare, at a much cheaper cost by cutting out the useless middlemen (insurance companies).
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Canada vs US GOP
Return to top. Section link. Facts: Recreational and medical cannabis is legal across Canada. Republicans (GOP) block both in US. In Canada the average per-person cost of their single-payer universal healthcare is half that of the US. And Canada has a longer average lifespan. As for the US read a UnitedHealthcare denial horror story, and many more. [57][58]. Stats article: "The company dismissed about one in every three claims in 2023 — the most of any major insurer. That's twice the industry average of 16%". See Wikipedia: Medical debt. It's much higher in the US, though Canada has a lot of dental medical debt. Both the US and Canada do not adequately support dental health. But the Canadian Dental Care Plan is solving that problem now. US Republicans Voted Often to Kill Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [59][60][61]. Republicans want to make Medicaid like UnitedHealthcare.
| Average annual health spending. US dollars (PPP) per person. OECD countries and more. |
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| Total public and private spending. $6,319 for Canada in 2022. $12,555 for the US in 2022. |
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Roswell. Warming
Carbon-free energy
And here on earth:
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Section link. Much UFO technology has been back engineered, and its carbon-free energy could end global warming. See Steven Greer (SG) documentary: The Lost Century: And How to Reclaim It. [62][63][64][65][66]. SG documentaries for free: Tubi & [67][68][69][70][71] [72][73][74][75] [76][77][78]. JustWatch: [79][80][81] [82][83][84]. More SG media: [85][86][87] [88][89][90]. SG video channels: [91][92][93][94][95]. SG witness testimonies: [96][97][98][99]. His National Press Club events: 2023. 2001. See drstevengreer.com site. [100]. SG interviews: [101][102][103][104] [105][106][107][108]. SG's Disclosure Project Intelligence Archive. [109][110]. More SG info: [111][112][113] [114][115][116][117]. See also the David Grusch, David Fravor, and Ryan Graves disclosures at July 26, 2023 House hearing about US possession of aliens, alien bodies, alien craft, and back engineering: [118][119][120][121] [122][123][124][125][126] [127][128][129][130] [131][132][133]. Disclosure Timeline and Diaries. See: The Battle for Disclosure. (2024). [134]. See "The Program" (2024). [135]. See History channel: [136][137][138] [139][140][141][142]. National Geographic: [143][144][145][146]. See: Bob Lazar and George Knapp [147]. See Rendlesham Forest UFO witness interviews. [148]. See Whitley Strieber interview. See The Age of Disclosure with 34 insiders telling what they know about government knowledge of UFOs/UAPs, crash retrievals, alien bodies, meetings with live aliens, over many decades. It came out Nov 21, 2025 on Amazon Prime. It only costs $5 more to buy it than to rent it, and you will want to see parts of it more than once. Also, see this long interview with the director Dan Farah [149][150] for much more info.
See the July 8, 1947 Roswell Daily Record below. Image info. Click image to enlarge. Full-size is readable. See full text of saucer article. [151]. U.S. Army officer Walter Haut issued the initial "flying disk" press release. His 2002 notarized affidavit said there were 2 crash sites, and that he had seen a craft, alien bodies, and handled wreckage material. (see page 14 of pdf). It was released in a 2007 book after his death in 2005. The 20 paragraph 2002 affidavit is also online here: [152] (page 14). [153][154][155][156][157]. 37 witnesses to the Roswell shape memory foil. [158][159][160] [161][162][163][164]. Page 54 of Jesse Marcel, Jr. book. Crumple it and it uncrumples without creases. Did not exist in 1947.
July 8, 1947. See JPG page with full text transcribed.
Walter Haut in 1947. See JPG file.
2002 affidavit is on pages 239-242 of the 2022 edition: Witness to Roswell, 75th Anniversary Edition: Unmasking the Government's Biggest Cover-up (more eyewitnesses). 36 pages previewed in Google Books. Click "preview" button and scroll down to pages 239-240. Search within the book. There is an inexpensive Kindle ebook. Moonwalker Dr. Edgar Mitchell wrote the foreword.
Haut's daughter, Julie Shuster, in 2002, 3 years before his death, "verbally discussed each and every sentence" of the affidavit with him. She said it was not a deathbed confession. See Sept 2007 MUFON UFO Journal. Issue 473. Page 15. And this article from Special Broadcasting Service. Archived. See Julie Shuster on IMDb.
Google search: Walter Haut 2002 Roswell affidavit. Articles about Haut:
30 June 2007: Roswell officer's amazing deathbed admission raises possibility that aliens DID visit. By Nick Pope. Same article also published here and here. Archived here and here.
5 June 2022: Roswell officer's deathbed confession about theory of alien cover up. By Declan Carey. Archived here.
14 May 2021: Ex-Army officer ADMITS he saw ‘alien the size of a 10-year-old child’ after famous Roswell UFO crash in incredible video. By Emma Parry. Archived here. This article has a short excerpt of the video.
May 2021: Roswell Officer Speaks From the Grave: Video Released, Confesses that Alien was "the size of a 10 year old". By Anthony Bragalia. Archived here. From article (emphasis added): "This video clip is part of a memoir video / oral history over two hours in length that covers many personal and professional aspects of Haut's life. The video was taken at the Roswell Museum in 2000 with friends Dennis Balthaser and Wendy Connors."
August 3, 2024: The Roswell UFO story still resonates around the world 77 years later. By John Purvis (CBS4). Archived here. Article is on the KDBC-TV website: cbs4local.com
There are many books uncovering many witnesses to the Roswell crafts, materials, and bodies. A snip from a book review of Roswell: The Chronological Pictorial. 2020. By Thomas J. Carey:
| What the Generals Said about Roswell: - "It was a cover story, the balloon part of it ... That was the story we were told to give to the public and the news people, and that was it." Brigadier General Thomas J. DuBose, USAF - "The [Roswell] craft was extraterrestrial, and at one time may have been at Wright-Patterson in an off-limits area." Brigadier General Harry N. Cordes, USAF - "I am almost completely convinced that the object that crashed near Roswell was composed of materials not common on earth." Major General Kenner F. Hertford, USA - "The stuff I saw, I've never seen anyplace else in my life … It was the strangest thing I ever saw." General William H. Blanchard, USAF - "They [the Air Force] knew that they had something new in their hands … The metal and material was unknown to anyone I talked to … A couple of guys thought it might be Russian, but the final consensus was that the pieces were from space." [i.e., extraterrestrial] Brigadier General Arthur E. Exon, USAF - "Stealth technology comes from the Roswell crash … I have been informed by higher officers at the Pentagon that there still exists a Top Secret UFO Project … That's where your Roswell file is." |
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