…rate on those individuals to 28%! Just more enriching the rich. The Dems shouldn’t agree to that. Especially since Grover Norquist thinks that any such agreement would be undone immediately,…

…the rich and turning Social Security into welfare as we knew it. Fifth.. the Trust Fund treasuries will indeed run out some time around 2030 or 40 or 50. It…

…ourselves a pipe dream that everyone could get rich and no one would get hurt — a pipe dream that exploded like a pipe bomb when the already-rich grabbed for…

…exist) down to the middle class and maybe the poor, while giving the rich extraordinary tax reductions through complete exemption of their main type of income. None of these proposals…

…should have been treated as US profits all along–and subject to tax. A repatriation holiday would just mean more money in the pockets of the uberrich–the managers and some of…

…we really are. That happened this week. On Wednesday, Unicef published a report entitled “An overview of child well-being in rich countries.” It brings together comparative research on the material,…

…gotten almost no coverage at all. What does it do? It increases tax on the wealthy (after a decade of their enjoying super-rich tax cuts), cuts military spending (after decades…

…U.S. accounted for half of all job losses among the 31 richest countries from 2007 to mid-2010. (2) The rise of U.S. unemployment greatly exceeded the fall in economic output….

…DSGE (acronyms explained below). Neither was paid for by firms or rich individuals. First the Efficient Markets Hypothesis (EMH) which holds that all assets always sell for the same price…

…Security” by taxing the rich… either by raising the cap, or by dedicating the estate tax to pay for Social Security. These people do not know, or do not understand…