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Working Poor

Sanity Claws

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3. If that was a strength, then why the lavish tax breaks?

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Dec 2, 2015, 12:31 PM

Dec 2015

The article rubs me the wrong way. It strikes me as spin on why the poor should be happy with the low sights that are set for them.
The real story is the lavish tax breaks. Who makes up for the lost revenue? The same working poor who were just told that they were the South's strength.

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Once a weakness, low-skilled workers who get paid little have become the Deep South’s strength [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2015 OP

Yep LiberalArkie Dec 2015 #1

Get 'em all skeered of Moooslims and libruls who hate Jeeezus and kill babies tularetom Dec 2015 #2

I remember reading that, during the mid/late 20th century especially YoungDemCA Dec 2015 #4

Are you aware those workers voted for a union in that plant? dixiegrrrrl Dec 2015 #6

Yeah, I know all about stereotypes tularetom Dec 2015 #7

If that was a strength, then why the lavish tax breaks? Sanity Claws Dec 2015 #3

Kick, was going to post this Babel_17 Dec 2015 #5