Inequality causes crime because it destroys social trust, the core fabric of any society: Without social trust, empathy and shared values disintegrate and culture begins to collapse.

Yesterday morning, a burglar tried to break into my home. Thankfully the doors were all locked, but a few houses down wasn't so lucky; our neighbor was home and is now pretty traumatized to have experienced a home-invasion burglary. By the time the police arrived, the burglar was long gone in a stolen car.

A friend is trying to sell his condo in downtown Portland but large parts of downtown have been turned into a giant homeless camp so there are few buyers even in this hot real estate market. The nearby streets are pockmarked with tents and the curbs frequently sport human waste.

Homelessness and its attendant crime are getting so bad that police in many cities don't bother to investigate many property crimes unless they're against wealthy people and involve things of great value. Just among my own friends and acquaintances in the past year I've seen 3 cars stolen (one I watched happen!), one car damaged in a smash-and-grab, and two home-invasion break-ins.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "The GOP Delivers More Crime to America" by Thom Hartmann.

Site: "Duang Prateep Foundation".

Article: "Income inequality, trust and homicide in 33 countries" by Frank J. Elgar, Nicole Aitken.

Article: "Jealous of the Joneses: conspicuous consumption, inequality, and crime" by Daniel L. Hicks, Joan Hamory Hicks.

Book: "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "Gilded Age 2.0: U.S. Income Inequality Increases to Pre-Great Depression Levels" by Kevin Kelleher.

Article: "Biden Should Withhold What's Most Sacred to Rightwing Churches —Money" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "GOP tax attack" by Jonathan Swan, Alayna Treene.

Article: "Potlatch" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Article: "America's richest 400 families now pay a lower tax rate than the middle class" by Aimee Picchi.

Article: "In Gift to Rich Tax Cheats, Republicans Strip IRS Funds From Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "The stark relationship between income inequality and crime" by The Economist.

Article: "Crime" by Equality Trust.

Article: "The Middle Class Is Dying in America" by Phil Davis.

Article: "Inequality and Crime" by Morgan Kelly.

Article: "The Karamojong" by Kidepo Valley National Park.

Article: "The Prophet's Way: Uganda Sojurn" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Does inequality increase crime?" by Hernan Winkler.

Article: "The 'law and order' campaign that won Richard Nixon the White House 50 years ago" by Terence McArdle.

Article: "2 dead, 7 injured in separate shootings in Portland, Oregon" by Gillian Flaccus.

Article: "Killing of George Floyd" by Wikipedia.

Article: "George Floyd murder: Derek Chauvin sentenced to over 22 years" by BBC.

Article: "Billionaires Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson have now both gone to space. Here's the difference between their Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic flights." by Caitlin O'Kane.

Article: "Biden calls Cuba a failed state and communism a failed system" by Clea Skopeliti.

Article: "Girl, 7, sells lemonade to pay for brain surgery" by Meghan Holohan.

Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].

Bill: "S.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR].

Article: "Cagney & Lacey" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Adam-12" by Wikipedia.

Article: ">McMillan & Wife" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating homelessness" by Tahiat Mahboob.

Article: "Walton family" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Palace of Versailles" by Wikipedia.

Site: OpEdNews - Rohn Kenyatta.

Article: "How Much Can We Boost I.Q. and Achievement?" by Arthur R. Jensen.

Book: "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "Restorative justice" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Everything You Need to Know About the Texas Anti-Voter Legislation
- Lala Wu, Co-Founder & Executive Director - Sister District (Former enviro & clean energy lawyer)

Article: "Seventeen states have enacted 28 new laws making it harder to vote" by Janie Boschma.

Article: "Texas Republicans Have A New Voting Bill. Here's What's In It" by Ashley Lopez.

Article: "In Texas, Efforts To Make Voting Harder Have Some Worried In Harris County" by Andrew Schneider.

Article: "Proposals to Divest the Supreme Court of Appellate Jurisdiction: An Analysis in Light of Recent Developments" by John Roberts.

Article: "Ann Johnson (politician)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Texas Democrats 'Risk It All,' Lawmakers from Past Statehouse Revolts Say" by Steve Friess.

Article: "Georgia state legislative special elections, 2021" by Ballotpedia.

Article: "Community policing" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Honeymooners" by Wikipedia.

Article: "I Love Lucy" by Wikipedia.

Bill: "H.R.6800 - Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act or the HEROES Act" by Nita Lowey [D-NY-17].

Article: "Bill Frist" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rick Scott" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Food desert" by Wikipedia.

Speech: "Great Society" by Wikipedia.

Article: "United States Federal Corporate Tax Rate 1909-2020 Data" by Trading Economics.

Article: "Mayor Breed's push to make San Francisco 'tent-free' has gone as far as removing toilets for the homeless" by Mallory Moench.

Article: "Portugal decriminalised drugs 14 years ago - and now hardly anyone dies from overdosing" by Chris Ingraham.

Article: "Oregon becomes first US state to decriminalise hard drugs" by BBC.

Book: Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. by Luis J. Rodriguez.

Video: George Carlin on Homelessness and Golf.

Article: "Clubhouse model of psychosocial rehabilitation" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: U.S. Cannibals in Haiti
- Greg Palast, The Guardian / Investigative Journalist/Author/Filmmaker, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy / His new book, How Trump Stole 2020: The Hunt For America's Vanished Voters

Article: "US Cannibals in Haiti" by Greg Palast.

Article: "François Duvalier" (Papa Doc) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jean-Claude Duvalier" (Baby Doc) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jean-Bertrand Aristide" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Haiti–United States relations" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What We Know About The Assassination Of Haiti's President" by Jaclyn Diaz.

Article: "Jovenel Moïse" by Wikipedia.

Video: The Assassination Of Haiti's President (w/ Former Prime Minister of Haiti, Laurent Lamothe).

Article: "Clinton Bush Haiti Fund" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Statistics About Life in Haiti" by Restavek Freedom.

Article: "Haiti indemnity controversy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "External debt of Haiti" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "New York City Begins Moving Homeless Out Of Lucerne And Other Hotels As Pandemic Outlook Brightens" by CBS NewYork.

Article: "Tiny House Villages in Seattle: An Efficient Response to Our Homelessness Crisis" by Sharon Lee.

Site: Creative Health Institute.

Article: "Bennett: Black Abortions Would Lower Crime" by James Joyner.

Article: "The family behind America's opioid crisis: New York and London socialites who developed OxyContin made BILLIONS off of the drug's skyrocketing sales despite claims of false advertising that labelled it as LESS addictive than other painkillers" by Anna Hopkins.

Article: "Jeff Bezos' Net Worth: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know" by Taylor Vollman.

Article: "The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax" by Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen and Paul Kiel.

Book: Aristotle: The Complete Works by Aristotle.

Quote: "Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime." - Aristotle.

Article: "Homeless Housing Program" by King County.

Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District) will be calling in to talk about the issues of the day and take your calls.

Plus, I'll be debating Julio Rivera, Editorial Director - Reactionary Times / Contributor - Newsmax, American Thinker & Townhall.com

And, I'll be talking with Yosef Getachew, Media and Democracy Program Director - Common Cause about how lobbying and political influence by broadband gatekeepers has shaped the digital divide

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