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Friend,
Polls show that strong majorities of Americans support a 2% wealth tax, but corporate media pundits said it will never happen.
Broad majorities support Medicare for All as well, but the same pundits say that's impossible too.
And when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez proposed a 70 percent marginal tax rate for the very wealthiest .01%, the corporate media practically fell out of their chairs—even though voters support that idea by a 20-point margin.
Why? Because the corporate executives and corporate advertisers who control the media want it that way.
In totalitarian countries, the government uses state media to manipulate public opinion and squash dissent. In America, corporations use those same tools to convince voters that common sense, overwhelmingly popular ideas are impossible—and to support politicians who put the interests of the 1% ahead of the rest of us.
To save our democracy, we need an independent, nonprofit media that will report the facts, not the spin of corporate elites. Common Dreams has no corporate board of directors or wealthy advertisers. We have you, our readers. But without your support, we will not be able to continue.
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