…the new gilded age, where bankers and private equity titans get rich off the labor of ordinary folk and ordinary folk find themselves eeking out a living at more or…

…majorities of respondents say that rich people and corporations pay less than their fair share of taxes. This fact hid in plain sight for decades. Almost all commentators agreed that…

…the wealthy, it helps the elderly poor live in modest comfort… very modest comfort. Just to be clear, not all the elderly are rich. Social Security is a way for…

…don’t call SS a “regressive tax” unless you are advocating changing it to a “progressive” tax by turning it into welfare paid for by “the rich.” FDR, in spite of…

…the rich get richer under Democrats (except for the very rich) — though not at the expense of the poor and the middle class. Progressives deliver more prosperity. They deliver…

by Linda Beale The right’s smoke and mirrors scam about Social Security–it ain’t broke (unless China is too) We’ve noted in these postings the growing inequality between rich and the…

…who is already rich to not get richer, in fact much richer. Both working taxpayer and investor taxpayer have identical lifestyles and thus spend the exact same amount of money…

…policy is (foreign aid is about 0.7% of the budget). Another is that they really really want to soak the rich — to stimulate without adding to the deficit by…

…by Greg Mankiw as that position paper: But perhaps the very most interesting thing about the Mankiw piece is the lead: “Do the rich pay their fair share in taxes?…

…federal spending — not real tax relief. How the rich suffer so from their high taxes. Earlier this week, when he signed the debt-ceiling bill, the president ranted on about…