…a substantial trade balance in terms of some kinds of services. These more than compensated for the fall in material goods. The IMF define these services as To set the…

…groups. My point is that local control absent regional/state/federal regulations can sap regional resources. Regions that are rich in natural resources often seem to be chronically economically depressed with a…

…cuts (especially for the rich and big corporations) couldn’t conquer, the Bush regime very ably turned a budget surplus into a staggering deficit and a financil crisis that would guarantee…

…that such a tax policy makes sense for America. It will let the rich get richer, when we are already at a point where the middle class is shrinking because…

…regressive tax.” A regressive tax is a tax that falls more heavily on the poor than on the rich as a percent of income. The usual case is a “sales…

…zero taxation on the unearned income of the rich. And each of the GOP presidential candidates reflects that overarching goal of reducing taxes on the ownership class. See, e.g., Gingrich’s…

…that the rich don’t need (and the economy wouldn’t benefit from) even more favorable tax breaks for rich people’s favored kind of income. He noted that “the speaker’s plan to…

…Id. See also Study: Gingrich Plan would provide big breaks for rich, blow huge hole in budget deficit, Washington Post (December 12, 2011); Rubin et al, Gingrich Plan to Add…

…majority of people in favor of higher taxes and higher taxes on the rich and corporations in particular; ignore the facts that show that higher taxes on the rich and…

…defending the rich from taxation as their mission. The rich are defined as “successful”–even if the wealth is merely built on top of inherited wealth and position, and even if…