Jamie McMahon🌻

Gary Stevenson, This was the country that introduced the proportional income, the, the progressive income tax" "Didn't exist. We did it here in this country, and look at what we did. Look at what we achieved" "Listen, my grandmother was born here in this city in the 1920s, in the richest city, in the richest country in the history of the world, and three of her siblings died of tuberculosis" "That is what happens when you don't deal with your inequality" "Surrounded by desperate poverty. And in the course of her lifetime, just one lifetime, we moved from that kind of country where ordinary hardworking people see their kids die of poverty" "To the world that my dad grew up in, where he worked for the post office for thirty-five years, bought a house, had a pension, had a retirement, had three kids, financial security, good quality education, good quality healthcare, good quality housing" "We did that in the course of one woman's lifetime with no historical precedent of it ever happening before" "So don't tell me it's impossible"