1) According to Samuel Stein, how did the Trumps get rich? In your own words, briefly describe each of the three thefts that allowed Donald Trump to become rich. PDF

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https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/08/trump-real-estate-theft-public-land-taxes/ 1) According to Samuel Stein, how did the Trumps get rich? In your own words, briefly describe each of the three thefts that allowed Donald Trump to become rich. According to Samuel Stein Donald John Trump became rich by stealing form workers, the state and the common publics. Firstly, he stole the wages of the workers by recruiting undocumented immigrants as he didn't have to pay them properly and made them work overtime and didn't pay them the overtime money. He even stole money from the service worker maintaining the hotel. He charged a 22% service fee from the clients but none of the fee went into the account of the workers. He even stole from the professional clients like the architect who was involve in the construction of Trump National Golf Club in New York. Secondly, he stole from the State by getting tax exemption as of this day he does not pay any state tax for his luxury hotels. He even applied for tax break and eventually got it.Trump began consolidating his corporations and LLCs to a single address. Trump businesses are not registered to his New York City headquarters, they are mostly registered but to one sleepy office building in Delaware America’s onshore tax haven. On top of tax breaks he receives subsidies and on top of that he manages to avoid paying taxes for his residence. Thirdly, he manages to steal from the common public by evicting them from their lands in the name of developing. Trump manage to make many public spaces privatize and charging general public a fee to enjoy those place. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/05/looting-minneapolis-police-george-floyd 2) Thinking along the same lines as Samuel Stein, David Sirota highlights a different form of looting than what is typically depicted on the news and popular culture. According to Sirota, who exactly is doing the looting and who’s being looted? According to David Sirota large rich folks and corporations in the name of public policies aided by arsonist politicians are looting the entire society by wearing designer suit from their marbled offices in Washington and New York.

3) In three sentences or less, explain why meritocracy is a myth, according to Jo Littler. How does wealth inequality factor in to this myth of meritocracy?

According to Jo Littler meritocracy is a myth because it has been manipulated to privilege the wealthy. As who does not already have the privilege are told to work harder to catch them up. So those who already have wealth they are already a head start in the game and as it plays an inequality factor as people pass on their privilege to their children and the unprivileged are far behind in the game as they do not have access to lot of things....