…taxes paid by the extraordinarily wealthy upper-crust that has seen its taxes lowered during the three-plus decades of reaganomics–to convince Americans that a return to the laissez-faire, corporate titan economy…

…the government imposed on them. While the government’s programs to encourage affordable housing may have other flaws they did not, at any rate, directly cause the subprime crisis. Myth busted….

…public agenda. Wilder describes how it works in a follow-up comment: (Be sure to read the whole thing.) Neoliberalism, it seems to me, uses the myth of the market, to…

…corporate ownership of personal residences resulting in widespread ability to deduct personal expenses not possible to ordinary wage workers). Double taxation is a fabricated myth for most of these estates….

…jobs for lack of cash–they are not investing in expansion for lack of customers. The middle class is collapsing, after four decades of reaganomics have steadily worked to erode unions…

…and economic downturns or comparison of growth rates between the “roaring 20s” favored by libertarian myth and the New Deal era? Could a person really remain a libertarian if they…

…when their turn comes. The impending crisis of Social Security is a myth. Without it, however, Bush’s initiative to slash benefits and partially privatize the program wouldn’t have a prayer….

…— is the final nail in the coffin of that putative myth known as Irish sovereignty. We gave away so glibly what we fought so hard to achieve. Was it…

…facts in a number of places. However, there is one point – another libertarian/conservative myth which comes up in the paper that I’d like to focus on in this post….

…how it might be made subordinate to the public will and need. This debate is avoided by propagating the myth that the power does not exist.” John Kenneth Galbraith, The…