…super-rich, they will help to boost the economy, as they have over the past three years. This claim that the tax cuts in dividends and capital gains are responsible for…

…hypocrisy of Gingrich and many other Republican congressmen” noting: Conservative and free-market forces brought little intellectual artillery to the farm-bill battle. Instead, many conservatives were content to rhapsodize over the…

…with Soros, Buffet, and a few other super-rich poeple. Buffet recently also came out against the current Bush tax cut. Mac Diva’s reader, Jim, came up with a four point…

…The problem with gentrification is not that neighborhoods get too many amenities; it’s that they are amenities that cater to the rich and drive up housing values beyond the reach…

…we are all segregationists”—who don’t want poor people living in their vicinity, rich people who don’t want to pay their owed taxes, and the people who buy goods and services…

…child with health insurance requires us to violate the property rights of some rich people (by taxing them, say), then the poor, sick child is just out of luck.  Klein…

…has used his gigantic platform to spread outrageous lies about Social Security.  Unlike the extremely rich, stupid men to whom Eisenhower was referring, Musk is, unfortunately, not just ignorant. Trump is giving him…

…broadly prosperous economic powerhouse.  Many other resource-rich countries, like Argentina and Australia, were slow to develop domestic industries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The U.S., by contrast,…

…view into just how the ultra-rich have bought them- selves a seat (if not a couch) in the Oval Office. When billionaires and corporate interests are shaping policy, it’s no…