Indeed, to ensure that the benefits from these government investments are shared with some equity would require that the excess income at the top be recycled into other improvements of the nation's infrastructure and the quality of life for all Americans.
In other words, by raising taxes on the rich, Washington could help create the jobs needed for addressing national problems and simultaneously break the vicious cycle that has left nearly 10 percent of Americans unemployed, the key fact that has depressed consumer demand.
However, to change the dominant Reagan-era ideology and thus to change America would require smart investments from progressives in the information battles for the hearts and minds of the American voters.
Only with the Right's orthodoxy challenged and the American people understanding their real choices might politicians gain the confidence and courage to do what's needed to get the United States back on the path of a healthy economy and toward a revived democracy.
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