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deregulation

‘Tis the Season When the Poor are Freezin’

December 23, 2010 by Jacqueline Homan 12 Comments

Lack of enough opportunity, social inequality, and exploitation are the main factors in capitalist America that cause poverty, but an often overlooked contributor are the “ghetto taxes” and abusive social policies that go hand in glove with lack of incomes that keeps people poor. Ghetto taxes are the extra fees, rates, and miscellaneous surcharges that […]

Filed Under: Class in the Media, Politics and Class Tagged With: classism, deregulation, poverty

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