…latest show, with Matt Taibbi and and Chrystia Freeland, focuses on how the super rich have established a yawning chasm between themselves and ordinary Americans, both in financial and physical…

…arithmetic. Romney also covertly disclosed that he, like George W. Bush before him, has every intention of cutting taxes on the rich. Like Bush, he used stealthy language to try…

…their income than rich people, so a more equal income distribution would result in higher money velocity, hence higher GDP. (I have seen no indication that Krugman’s opinion on this…

…lobbying organizations–less regulation, more privatization, more reductions to earned benefits like Medicare and Social Security, and more tax provisions that favor the rich that the GOP labels–without empirical support– as…

…the tax system that favor the already incredibly rich. The conversion waiver issue has come to the attention of the public now because the New York State attorney general is…

…them are the rich and the rich have the means of moving away. But do they? There are lots of things that come into whether one is willing to move…

…says the popularity of raising taxes on the rich “is as close to an absolute truth you can have in polling” (p. 144). I have two problems with this. First,…

…proposal. Another year of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest taxpayers in the richest 1% would give them an average tax cut of about $71,000. See Citizens for Tax…

…with controversy and in SCOTUS waiting for a decision on its constitutionality. Stimulating the economy languishes between cutting taxes for the rich in income to create jobs and another Federal…

…running out of money!” Except it isn’t. And all the Professional Defenders of Social Security rushed out to tell us, “We can save Social Security: just make the rich pay…