Tag Archives: Green New Deal

They want to bankrupt the blue states, and kill public unions, but, yes, let’s talk about the injection of Lysol

By Mark | April 25, 2020

Toward the end of this past week, it became evident that the Republicans intended to use this horrific pandemic in order to force individual states into bankruptcy. Mitch McConnell, having worked to deliver hundreds of millions of our hard-earned tax dollars to corporations, said this past Wednesday that the states being hit hardest by COVID-19 […]

Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Anthony Fauci, anti-government, bailouts, bankruptcy, Bill Bryan, blue states, Chloroquine, Climate Change, coronavirus, COVID-19, crisis, Deborah Birx, deficit spending, denial, Department of Homeland Security, disinfectants, DNA, Donald Trump, FDR, George Bush, George Bush the Lesser, Global Warming, Great Depression, Hydroxychloroquine, injections, Iraq war, lies in the run-up to the Iraq war, Lysol, magic beans, miracle cures, Mitch McConnell, New Deal, Obama, pandemic, public health, Ram Emanuel, sarcasm, shooting up, small government, snake oil, sunlight, tan suit, union busting | 128 Comments

The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You

By Mark | October 6, 2019

David Leonhardt, who won the a Pulitzer Prize run 2011 for his columns on the financial crisis, has a new piece in today’s New York Times titled, “The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You.” If, like me, you’re concerned about issues like wealth inequality and our inability as a nation to appropriately fund […]

Posted in Corporate Crime, Economics, Mark's Life, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1%, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC, David Leonhardt, Elizabeth Warren, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman, infrastructure, middle class, public education, research funding, rich get richer, tax policy, taxes, the top 1%, threats to the middle class, ultra-millionaire tax, Warren Dunes, wealth inequality, wealth tax | 27 Comments

The Warren Wealth Tax

By Mark | February 5, 2019

I was tempted to tune in to tonight’s State of the Union address, if only to see all of the distinguished Republican guests in the audience, like Diamond, of hard-hitting investigative news team of Diamond and Silk, and the little boy who claims to have experienced mockery for sharing the same last name with the […]