…with purchased sound bites designed to deceive and enable the “enrich the rich” winner-take-all economy created by right obstructionism (itself enabled by the relaxation of the filibuster rule that created…

…progress, with 9-9-9 as the midpoint, towards a national retail sales tax, and Rick Perry’s proposal for an ‘option’ of a 20% national sales tax–simply will make the rich richer…

…giveaway to the rich, this further example of governmental capture by oligarchy? He claims that this revenue reduction that benefits mostly the very rich will –yes, you guessed it–help generate…

…to find one where Obama is to the right of the average American. The average American is eager to soak the rich. Obama prefers soaking the rich to the alternative,…

…rich). I think the best policy now is to raise taxes on the rich *and* extend the payroll tax cuts *and* extend UI *and* do the making work pay tax…

…because it kills long-term national prosperity. Economically efficient policies that deliver greater equity also deliver greater long-term prosperity. Even the rich get richer under progressive policies (except maybe the very,…

…abuse and avoid the rules. It wasn’t that politicians exempted abuses via special amendments in unrelated laws. It was that these very talented and rich farmers took the subsidized land…

…stinging commentary); Michael O’Hare, The Whining of the Rich, Sept. 18, 2010; The Whining Rich, ReadNews, Sept 21, 2010. As many noted afterwards, people tend to evaluate their circumstances in…

…we won’t do something and, in particular, no chance that Bush tax cuts for the non-rich won’t be extended. I’d say the main problem isn’t that the parties can’t agree…

…to “distortion of consumption” where the poor imitate the consumption of the rich (which is more costly the richer the rich are) and this foolish spending causes infant mortality. It…