…the rich) over labor income (and everybody else). Of course, the Journal then proceeds to quote Art Laffer for the right-wing corporatist ALEC in an article claiming that a majority…

…have some potency: Hey, we just raised taxes on the rich, so the next bite at the apple should be focused on spending cuts, right? So it’s worth putting the…

…years. Since rich people don’t spend as much of their income as the poor and middle class do, this is less deflationary than a tax increase on the middle class,…

…rights to decent health care; hostility to ordinary people’s rights to a sustainable lifestyle; and hostility to any effort to make the oligarchic uber-rich pay a fair share of the…

…increases in the taxes of the ultra rich who have greedily sucked up all the juice in the economy for forty years. We won’t. Readers may think this blog has…

…on a wipe-out victory in the 2012 elections. Permanent reductions in taxes for the rich, deregulation, privatization/decimation of the New Deal safety net programs, and ever-increasing support for the military…

…this much more heavily towards killing social programs, or at least cutting them back significantly and raising taxes on the rich. Now, that’s got most of the attention from progressives,…

…on the rich are too low (i.e., they violate the Buffett rule), and that higher tax rates on the rich would moderate increasing income inequality (change how the economic pie…

…Water markets have been VERY useful in reducing water waste and directing water from the powerful and rich to the poor and powerless – because the rich are getting water…

…too little taxation of the ultra rich was radical reduction of rates with purported base-broadening (such as elimination of the capital gains preference, creation and then ramping up of the…