…gets. I have noticed that posts with titles including either “soak the rich” or “Social Security” get lots of comments. I don’t want to horn in on Bruce Webb’s turf…

…Spider’s Sunny Patch below the break. It was 1993, I think, when Richard Sandor gave the closing presentation at the ISDA Conference in Washington, D.C. Sandor was enthusiastic; there was…

…push poll levels. However, the desire to soak the rich made it through the pollster. Diageo Hotline also finds strong support for raising taxes on the rich (via dailykos). “There…

…accounts for 5 percent of total wealth, produced capital for 18 percent, and intangible capital 77 percent.” You know what that is? Democratic traditional spending priorities. “Rich countries are largely…

…given out free cash to every rich college student and to every poor drug addict and for that matter every rich college student Amsterdam hash and coke addict. But if…

…hard for Republicans to win elections given widening income inequality that disconnects the experience of their base (the rich) and the majority. True. I’d add that it is hard given…

…would be a political winner. See the old post for details. I add one clause — a contingent surtax on the rich. Withold an extra 10% of income over $1,000,000…

…(including people with 401(k)’s) relatively rich. So I like it. It seems, see below, that oil companies are passing their profits to shareholders through share buybacks. I think this helps…

…poor countries will get richer, and rich countries will get richer … slower than the poor countries. (Apocalyptic Econ allows for us all converging at some substantially lower level, of…

…the national average of 5.2%. Mississippi tort reform is making the poor richer, and the rich lawyers less fabulously rich. Most people would have avoided writing this article. Kudos to…