Here is a very direct chart illustrating how tax breaks for the rich directly affect public services for the poor. The current debate about the deficit is premised on the false assertion that the economic crisis is the fault of workers and the poor, and that it is only the wealthy that create value. This shows that class warfare is being waged by the rich in order to maintain power hierarchies and a control over the American democracy, when in fact any attempt to fix the economy and reduce the deficit must require elevating all participants.