This is probably one of the most amazing speeches I have ever listened to.

This should be mandatory viewing for ALL Americans. Its dissection is clear acute and accurate

David Cay Johnston's voice needs to be taken seriously by every citizen of the US.

Thank you David. I am absolutely blown over by this corruption

David Cay Johnston should,seriously consider running for president as a,republican in 2020. I'll vote for him and I'm a Democrat.

One of the best tax talks I've ever heard..we need to be citizens!

I admire this gentleman!

Wonder why we can't have a president, senators, representatives and a supreme court that think like this?

This gentleman is talking a lot of sense.

He is one of the few who speak first and foremost about the underlying principles of CIVILIZATION---that yearned-for state of ethical, moral and practical being that is the overarching goal of all non-regressive peoples. That state of being to which all philosophies and politics should be subservient.

Thank you for this post. I found it to be very refreshing in the way of truth. I too wish that every American would watch this. We the People need to change the current situation. I also applaud him for calling on women. TY Mr. Johnston.

David Cay Johnston is a great speaker. Imagine holding an audience spellbound while explaining tax law.

This should be required homework for everyone in USA.

This is making me physically sicker than I already am!! I wish I could move to one of the other countries he mentioned that has a more equal distribution of wealth.

this is the clear information we all need to understand. thank you Mr Johnson.

Thank you for your books !

It was a speech which gives many answers. What I understood from the speech is that when David Cay Johnston described about various aspects and companies and gave an objective view. In the previous system companies did take advantage of taxation system but I feel that in that competitive environment new men and women and their companies did rise and could become 1% The earlier system also had a scope. The new system where new companies came initially they gave many jobs and business opportunities to people which made them rise and rise but now in the current scenario they have turned into a new royalty under them their are only horizontal opportunities and not vertical opportunities/ growth. Governments also create opportunities, definitely there are flaws in the taxation system but David Cay Johnston himself said that we need governments and they support that investment which creates jobs like reinvesting in business and not that which doesn't create jobs like buying mansions. Just like David Cay Johnston has related the instance of him and his brother on that I would have only one opinion is to work hard and improve ones life.

Damn shame everyone doesn't get this lecture in high school. God forbid kids should actually know how this country is actually run.

yes private could do things but thats part of how we got into this mess with privatization and too many favours for the wealthy who cause the chaos

Where u been David Cay???? We need your voice of reason now more than ever!

This guy is soooo right up my alley!!!

Civilization/humanity is a joint exercise. Taxes are how we yoke together!

Good vid.

This some powerful stuff. I just wish he would use some references. Its a lot of information to try and check without them

This amazing corruption must stop. Problem is the vast majority of the population has no idea! Knowledge is power.

I am a big fan of David Cay Johnston......✔✔

If he comes to the NYC area would love to see him speak.

We have a real problem in the United States. What do we do about it?

The idea that taxes are "withheld" from workers pay is absurd. It goes on here in Europe as well. It is not unique for the US. The labour market in Europe is developing into hiring workers on a freelance basis, so they do not have to carry the burden associated with actual employment. THe good thing is that freelancers are individual companies that then, in reality acts as sub supliers to what would otherwise have been their employer. Imagine what will happen with this constellation when they realize that this entails the freelancers make invoices and therefore withholding their own tax, just like any other company. My guess is that no one will pay taxes and that the number civil cases involving taxes unpaid by freelancers will explode.

At 1:02:34 is a priceless example of the trend of how the old and the young have no clue of history. And the learning of what went right, and what went wrong.

I can see why he wanted more women questions, lol. They were much more intelligent question for question. Yikes

Good shit mane

A very wise man.

Well put

I really lr this man's talks. Too bad he doesnt have a prime time TV show.

I love this guy!

There are people who are not corrupt they are getting rarer Elizabeth Warren Bernie Sanders it’s time to seek these people out and making them the power that means we are the power most republicans would not seek public office if there was no personal profit in it

How about US governments, Federal or state, augue that the foreign governments, Chinese or Japanese, subsidize their companies too?

We can't change what is to far out of our reach. If we could get God into everything we do only than we can. That probably won't happen, so let us join with God to do our best

this is not a debt crisis, it is a missed taxes crisis

i wouldn't call it corporative socialism i would call it corporative goverment.

The focus here is pretty narrow. One of the things I'm convinced of is that people generally need to be better educated in the patterns of the society and politics they live under. In previous times people had extensive vocabularies for the plants, the animals, the geography, even the stars, to live in security from knowledge. We do not have a vocabulary for all the patterns of resource allocation and manipulations that are exercised around us, and in fact we are discouraged from trying to learn them. If all you do is point out the details of one aspect like David is here, you may allow some big players to shift power, but you do not engage the diverse empowerment of knowledge we need generally.

30:38 later, I feel so underwater that I've got the bends and can not take anymore. Is there a reason for this distribution of wealth? Any upside for us peasants?

"Is taxation ethical?" I think I lost twenty IQ points just listening to that question.

Do the Koch brothers think they are acting ethically?

So, aren’t those contributing their taxes to the company co-owners of that company?Any hope in the fine print,the wrong,missing laws?

1:03:28 sounds like South Africa

how's about the guy in the back wearing the Bass Pro Shop hoodie???

this is too complicated for most voters to understand. just show them a black welfare queen and tell them someone is going to take away their guns. then you can talk them into anything else.

Love love love this talk. Our political system is broken,, big time. The $$ has taken over. Greed has taken over. Out humanity is slipping.

Just listened to another of his talks where he would not allow anyone to finish their questions.....

more people should have this info ....( BUT IT HAS KNOW FLASH .)

17:25

Didn’t think this was vaguely Marxist until he mentioned class warfare. Good talk, even if he doesn’t realize it, he makes a great case for Socialism

so do we blame the government or the corporations?

It's a game of monopoly

Watch, Manda Bala, It show you where American is head, 2007.

Re-read your Thomas Paine and then brush up on your Adam Smith...Wealth of Nations...inequality is a no nonsense national security issue.

Since David said that tax is ethical .. I would love to be a tax collector

Mmmmm need “ eleven days in May”

I think Mr. Cay has this all backwards. Athens became powerful BECAUSE of taxes. As a military state. The protection it needed to prosper was FROM other enemy states.

Even the Founding Fathers warned about Trump and his clan.

The real problem for USA is that they are talking too much and doing nothing. All the society is involved in the political talking but pursuing their own work and life.

I hope you have spoken to Elizabeth Warren about how to win now.

Where is this guy talking about the Trump/Republican tax plan now?

It's fascinating how he argues for taxing the rich and then totally insults and repudiates his brother who was a manual laborer (probably construction) without which the very building which he is doing his posh presentation would not exist. What is the message? "don't be the guy who actually builds things, who builds the country. My brother was stupid and deserves what he got. We need financial experts like me in this country but don't need manual laborers at all." It's such a fascinating contrast of trying to promote a better run country while simultaneously expousing self destructive narcasistic elitism. Yeah, the country would do soooooooo well if everyone refused to do manual labor and instead insisted on becoming financial experts in academia and would accept nothing less....

vote Yang!

one inch v. 167 feet ; labor no longer gets their fair share of profits; one inch v. 5 miles increase for the top 1% of the 1%

He should share more food

since 06 I have pushed for a few ideas to help things titled OPM-Our Planet Peace People Matter 1 alterrnative powered farming resources combo of solar wind and farming 2 a non social pro network for public gov and business which was taken turned into teaparty twitter crowdrise and others adn 3 Public Options what riht dubbed Obamacare for healthcare part but this hsould have been a bundle like net phone cable but nessesities ot help those who need the help and get fair shar eout of the trumps and wealthy of the world like trumps tax plan you really think its fair the top 3 families/ people are getting 68 billion in tax breaks

Corporate Welfare States of America LOL

Where is he lately?

If you lived in the jungle you didn't get rich? They had the richness of nature! They had the richness of survival! They had the richness of turning things around them into useful things. They had the richness of community in the group. We live in a money society where the rich get richer, the Middle Class think they're owed and strive the be the very Rich they hate and everyone ignores the Poor.

That is not corporate socialism David, it is capitalism, in other words, the accumulation of capital.

thousands of bankers should have been put in jail

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The budget deficit is created by non collection of tax and general under taxation not from running a trading deficit. A trading deficit does not automatically lead to a budget deficit and the fact that wealthy western nations borrow because their citizens don't like to pay for the necessities of life over the luxuries is very wrong!

Capitalism is just another word for socialism for the RICH !

#USELECTION2016 #USELECTION2020

Yeah.. I would love to tax David Cay the way I want...

This guy and Chris Hedges could probably construct some ideas on how to approach the challenges of the near future.

#GoVegan

Battle of the freedoms - Economic vs. Social. Neoliberalism, the 45-yr. global economic policy, is an ideology founded by libertarian economist and Austrian aristocrat, Friedrich von Hayek and promoted by libertarians Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, Ayn Rand, Alan Greenspan, the Koch brothers and others. Since the 2008 financial crash, it has been thoroughly discredited as a viable economic policy. During this zombie decade of rudderless leadership, only MMT (modern monetary theory) has entered the economic arena with sound fiscal policy (government spending) advocacy. It was strong fiscal policy that FDR used to lay the groundwork of the Roosevelt Republic that produced the most prosperous years and highest standard of living the world had ever seen during the 50's-60's. Mention fiscal policy today and corporations and banks scream "Socialism!!" “Government exists to spend. The purpose of government is to serve the general welfare of the citizens, not just the military-industrial complex and the financial class. Didn’t we have a stimulus, oh, eight years ago? It was tiny and has not been entirely spent. As Yellen implied, we need more spending of the non-military kind (what Barney Frank memorably called “weaponized Keynesianism” doesn’t stimulate).” www.forbes.com/sites/leesheppard/2016/04/02/we-need-fiscal-policy/?fbclid=IwAR02l1AlZGMpapbTOdURjgRknx6Kai-24Z6fXBCXyBolgdgodvjSmYmXAdw#1c4e7dea8b40 In the US, both political parties today are dominated by this failed libertarian radical right, fueled mostly by the Koch donor network. Their idea of liberty actually depends on economic inequality. It’s their “human right”. Economic freedom over liberty for all. Isn’t that undemocratic? “Aryeh Neier, founder of Human Rights Watch and its executive director for 12 years, doesn’t hide his contempt for the idea of economic equality as one of the key human rights. Neier is so opposed to the idea of economic equality that he even equates the very idea of economic equality and justice with oppression-economic rights to him are a violation of human rights, rather than essential human rights, thereby completely inverting traditional left thinking. Here’s what Neier wrote in his memoir, Taking Liberties: “The concept of economic and social rights is profoundly undemocratic… Authoritarian power is probably a prerequisite for giving meaning to economic and social rights.” Neier here is aping free-market libertarian mandarins like Friedrich von Hayek, or Hayek’s libertarian forefathers like William Graham Sumner, the robber baron mandarin and notorious laissez-faire Social Darwinist. As with Neier, William Graham Sumner argued that liberty has an inverse relationship to economic equality; according to Sumner, the more economic equality, the less liberty; whereas the greater the inequality in a society, the more liberty its individuals enjoy. It’s the fundamental equation underlying all libertarian ideology and politics-a robber baron’s ideology at heart.” thedailybanter.com/2012/06/the-quiet-extermination-of-labor-rights-from-human-rights/ The libertarians’ futile dream of a nationless world dominated by privately owned charter cities has been attempted in Honduras to no avail. In this dystopic world of Technocracy and Property Owners, the restoration of the nation-state has never been more obvious. “In a libertarian society, there is no commons or public space. There are property lines, not borders. When it comes to real property and physical movement across such real property, there are owners, guests, licensees, business invitees and trespassers - not legal and illegal immigrants.” ~ Jeff Deist, president of the Mises Institute “The more inequality in a society, the more hate, the more dysfunction, the more mental illness, the more physical illness.” It should come as no surprise, then, that we see more addiction and more mass shootings since “the inequality is rising all the time.” Violence against racial, ethnic, or religious groups “is a manifestation of a society that foments division amongst people and sets people against each other.” www2.philly.com/philly/opinion/commentary/hate-addiction-pittsburgh-shooting-childhood-trauma-gabor-mate-20181102.html?fbclid=IwAR0HUxIsCYCRjzgP9esxNknoczq6

The heritage foundation claim is nonsense on its face. What is a dollar bill? It is an iou from the government. The money supply is government debt. Remember credits and debits? Every banknote, electronic credit or t bill is matched by that exact amount in federal debt.

how about no honors but rich just paying there fair share like the rest of us

make any tax reform ... anyway you can .. JUST dont raise it

Original cultures got along fine without either and they were free.

There is taxing. There is spending. The US Government does not tax and/or 'borrow' (issue and sell interest-bearing securities" in order to, and so that is able to, spend. The US Government spends in the amounts, and on/for whatever, the US Congress authorizes and appropriates be spent. Whenever it does, it net adds Dollars to the non-USGovt sectors. When it taxes, it permanently removes, eliminates, retires, "unprints" (as it were) US Dollars. So, no, the US Govt does *not* tax (take USD from) the many *to* spend on/give to the few. Its spending and taxing, separately and together, net benefit some and net hurt others.

Yet another IYI

predicting US President-Elect Donald J Trump ?

Inequality or to be more precise, decreasing living standards, are directly caused by the Federal Reserve and the debt based currency every country has been using since Switzerland was the last country to drop the gold standard in 1999. This guy makes good points but it's not the source of our problems. When regular people are able to save their money in gold, the middle class will start to increase since we will be protected from inflation caused by the Fed's debasing of our currency since 1913.

'Inequality' is a false meme. It is assumed that all men ARE created equal. That cannot be changed. It's not government's - or any man's - business to determine whether equality has been realized and try to remedy it.

is he in his bedroom?

2022 income tax rates and brackets Single taxpayers (1) Taxable income (USD) Tax rate (%) 0 to 10,275 10% 10,276 to 41,775 12% 41,776 to 89,075 22% 89,076 to 170,050 24% 170,051 to 215,950 32% 215,951 to 539,900 35% 539,901 to monopoly 37% Solution? choose an amount and not let the monopoly exist, say $539,901 to $1million 37% Then $1million+1 and over 100%

Nature is a substitute or who need taxes the real god that provides in nature real wealth does most of the work and man if intelligent enough just sees and goes along with the grace..If you lived in the Jungle rich is already it is reality. it's outside the jungle taxes are a necessity..Original tax is common labor for the common nature that sustains Us..Yes Subversion of the common is tax theft by corporate privatization; money goes to profit the 1% not the common good; gripped forever..and do as I say or sorry we say..corporate takeovers..So Intellectual property is cheating schemes under corrupted law or law corrupted against a common; but a class?

predict the corona virus at 49:20

OK. The United States of America was....

Inequality is a result not a cause. This guy does not understand a bit.

A prophet ? A global pandemic

although i really enjoyed the talk, i couldnt help but notice the 666 sign finishing at 55:22...