…salary to explain it to them. Also why don’t Europeans soak the rich ? To a great extent it’s because they can’t. In Italy the rich are mostly self employed….

…For workers ‘crisis’ is normally defined as a cut in retirement benefits at some point in the future. In its more invidious form this translates into ‘Social Security will not…

by Linda Beale Fixing Sequestration (for the rich only) Once again, Congress has demonstrated that it notices mostly what affects rich people and can’t quite identify with ordinary Americans. And…

…of the super-rich and of the rich are perfect substitutes with the super-rich 10 times as good at everything. Labor of the middle-class and labor of the richandsuperrich enter in…

…The tax rate is decided by the rich majority. It is not zero. Raising the tax above zero has 2 effects on rich person i — she has to pay…

…were “not rich” in comparison to the rich partners with whom they worked. But the fact is, anyone making that much is in the very privileged set–just not necessarily in…

…physicians what they already k new, Depakote was a very valuable medication for “off-label” (unapproved uses). In the irony department, prescribing and administering Depakote for off-label uses is legal, and…

…income earners. There is a ground swell for taxing the rich more, which is acceptable to most. When we look at this closely, there is an argument for some of…

…in America who have money are the rich, it’s “obvious” that the way to save Social Security is to tax the rich. [This is not to be confused with Bill…

…the rich-country club. Nobody would claim that those programs are sufficient to make a modern country rich. That would be silly. But based on the bare facts over the last…