Since 1993, the wealthiest one percent of Americans have captured 50 percent of the nation's economic growth.
If that fact alarms you, Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher knows who to blame for the 18-year-old crisis: a Chicago constitutional law professor.
You may have heard of him.
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His name is Barack Obama and he is now president of the United States.
But in 1993–when the top 1 percent began its most recent, dramatic
income percentage surge, nobody knew of Obama. He wasn't even in the
U.S. Senate or even a local elected official. He was a constitutional
law professor in Chicago and an associate in a private law firm.
In an Oct. 26 Twitter post, Rep. Rohrabacher–a master of twisting
facts to fit his mind-boggling partisan rants–wrote, “If rich getting
richer it is because our Chicago machine Prez has channled [sic] $
billions to his cronies, while putting us $ trillions in debt.”
So, in Rohrabacher's mind, Obama–who has advocated new taxes on the
wealthiest Americans–is a tool of the wealthiest Americans while the
congressman's Republican Party, which has adamantly advocated reducing
taxes on the wealthiest Americans, is protecting the middle class–a
group that got tax breaks under Obama without a single GOP vote in the House of Representatives.
–R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.
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