The two-party system has become an
intolerable straitjacket on the hopes and dreams of the American people. More
than ever, we need a viable alternative to a future of budget cuts,
unemployment, despair and war.
Who
Will Pay for the Depression? Working People or Wall Street
We have been told that our nation is
approaching a “fiscal cliff” – that the profligacy of the American people is to
blame for our national debt, and that we have no choice but to cut away the
fabric of the New Deal. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve continues to buy Wall
Street's toxic derivatives – the cause of the 2007 financial crisis – at the
rate of $85 billion a month.
This is not just hypocricy, it is
the essence of fascism.
Since we are in an economic
depression, the main political question is, Who Will Pay for This Depression?
The Wall Street parasites demand that the cost of the depression they have
created be shifted to working people. The Tax Wall Street Party demands instead
that Wall Street pay the cost of the depression it has created.
The
Void in Anti-Establishment Politics in America
Occupy Wall Street and the related
mass strike upsurge of 2011 showed that the New Deal is still alive in the
hearts of the American people. But this moment was sabotaged by so-called
leaders of these movements who were unwilling to make concrete demands for
economic reform.
While glimmers of hope remain within
the Democratic party, the Wall Street-owned party leadership is in lockstep
with the decrepit Republican party in its quest for more free trade, austerity,
deregulation and war.
Independent voters can only register
their distaste by choosing between utopian radicals on the left and right,
neither side capable of ever appealing to the vast majority of working American
families.
The Tax Wall Street Party will offer
American voters what they sorely need – a concrete program of economic
reform, based on the proven traditions of Lincoln’s American System, FDR’s
New Deal, and JFK’s New Frontier.
Our
Demands
