Pretty good Bobert. There are a few things I disagree with. The most glaring is "Reform the tax codes that allow the rich to hide income in accounts off-shore" the tax code says they must pay, it does not allow them to hide it and IRS is actively trying to detect offshore accounts and make them pay. Also these are not only availble to the rich. They are available to anybody.
The next most glaring is the fact that the Bush tax cuts have resulted in increased tax revenues. The poor got the biggest cut.

And I see nothing to attack the roots of poverty. The things that cause people to be in poverty to begin with. Something to raise their set of values that is ingrained into them when they are young.

For example slogans on T shirts that say snitches get stitches made off shore and sold by Boss Hogg.

The shirts' message - interpreted with slightly varying twists - essentially urges people to stop talking to and cooperating with police.

Made popular in Baltimore last year by a "Stop Snitching" DVD featuring rappers, a Denver Nuggets player and others, some wielding guns, wishing harm on police informants, the T-shirts, sometimes spelled "Stop Snitch'n," have caught on in urban centers from Boston to Philadelphia and Denver and are now among the hottest fashion trends in Milwaukee.
"I have five, one for each day of the week," said 16-year-old Mike O'Connor, a sophomore at Madison University High School. O'Connor says he wears them just to be fashionable.
But the shirts are fueling more than fashion, police and prosecutors say. They send a dangerous message to others that, if followed, has the potential to "destabilize the whole criminal justice system," according to John Chisholm, Milwaukee County assistant district attorney.
"This is a tremendously big problem," Chisholm said.
Witness intimidation is a real and longstanding difficulty for prosecutors nationwide, and "Stop Snitch'n" apparel, which includes baseball caps, makes solving crimes more challenging, he said.
"We're trying to go in the exact opposite direction," he said.
Police and prosecutors depend on informants to crack homicides, shootings and other serious crimes. If people feel it's unsafe or uncool to cooperate with law enforcement officials, "no one is going to come forward. No one is going to testify and the neighborhoods will suffer," Chisholm said.
Florence Howard knows such suffering.
Her grandson, 21-year-old Austin Howard, was killed this year for reportedly providing information to police.
According to a criminal complaint, just after 7 p.m. on Feb. 15, near 10th and Locust streets, Sheffield Groves entered a house where Howard and some friends had gathered. Groves reportedly pointed a gun at Howard and asked why he had snitched on him. When he didn't like the answer, Groves said, "That don't sound right," and shot Howard in the head, according to the complaint. Groves, who was charged with that and another homicide, then said to someone else in the room "You don't see nothing . . . or I'll be back to see you," the complaint says.
Florence Howard isn't sure what sort of information her grandson may have shared with police, but regardless, she says the shirts should be outlawed.
"They (police) need to do something about those shirts," she said. "They need to let them know they can't go around trying to stop justice...."

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