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…

When I left this series in September, I had introduced the idea of looking at past tax tables as a means of understanding how We the People define rich. One…

…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…

…information about products’ energy use. Label is voluntary, and Congress ordered it The Energy Star label is voluntary for products that meet certain efficiency levels, and differs from Department of…

Today we are continuing to look at the historical tax tables to see how we viewed and possibly defined rich. I introduced this idea with my post: Defining Rich III….

by Linda Beale Ten tax tricks (non-rich need not apply) Back on tax day in April, Bloomberg.com ran a good story on the tax tricks the rich can use to…

Robert Waldmann Polling results are absolutely clear. Now and for the decades a clear majority of US residents support taking from the rich and … well it doesn’t much matter…

…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…

…questions and he didn’t. The Cost of Extreme Wealth, End the age of extreme wealth. Tax the ultra rich, 2023 Survival of the Richest: How we must tax the super-rich…