Lawrence Pressman: Bill Denton

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• Bill Denton : The American economy is a rigged crap-table with loaded dice. The laws are carefully arranged so that the rich throw only sevens and everybody else throws snake-eyes. These laws are called "tax shelters". The Wall-Streeters and the plutocrats get richer and the poor get it where the cat got the thermometer. Case in point: in 1932, Mr J. Pierpont Morgan, American citizen and multi-millionaire, didn't pay one cent of Income Tax. Not one red - excuse the expression these are sensitive times - not one red cent of Income Tax. During that same year, on a tutor's salary, I paid exactly $537.30 to the Federal Government.