By Mark | November 9, 2017
Politico has a really interesting piece today about the increasingly wealthy University of Michigan student body, what that means in practical terms when it comes to economics and politics in the state, and what University leaders are doing to reverse the trend, and increase economic diversity on campus. And, interestingly, they’ve decided to tell the […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Education, Photographs, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 1%, American aristocracy, Ben Edmondson, Detroit, dismantling of public education, economic segregation, Go Blue Guarantee, HAIL: High Achieving Involved Leader, higher education, inherited wealth, Jake Croman, James Angell, Politico, public education, ruin porn, Southfield, student debt, Tap Room, threats to public education, threats to the middle class, tuition, University of Michigan, wealth inequality, Wolverine Pathways, Ypsi High, Ypsilanti International Elementary School |
By Mark | November 21, 2010
Billionaire investor Warren Buffet has long been outspoken in his belief that the rich in American need to pay their fair share in the way of taxes. While a majority of Americans would agree with Buffet, it’s not something that many of our leaders in Washington seem willing to bring up, let alone champion. As […]
Posted in Economics, Politics | Also tagged Bill Gates Sr., Bush tax cuts, Christiane Amanpour, deficit, estate tax, Obama, Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength, Plutocracy, tax, taxing the rich, the growing gap between rich and poor, the plight of the overtaxed rich, trickle down economics, Warren Buffet, Wealth and Our Commonwealth |
By Mark | November 18, 2010
I’ve been writing a lot about lately about the growing gap between rich and poor in American, and the systematic destruction of the middle class, and how I believe both trends to be destructive to our Democracy. I didn’t want to write about it tonight, though. I was actually planning to take the night off, […]
Posted in Economics, Politics | Also tagged Argentina, Bush tax cuts, Economic Policy Institute, Eisenhower, estate tax, George Soros, Guyana, middle class, Nicaragua, Nicholas Kristof, nuclear arms treaty, nuclear weapons, Plutocracy, Putin, rich get richer, Ronald Reagan, Russia, tax the rich, taxing the rich, the growing gap between rich and poor, the plight of the overtaxed rich, Venezuela, wealth inequality |
I’m not much of a sports fan, but the recent news coverage on George Steinbrenner’s death sent me to the internet looking for the backstory on how he came to be the principal owner of the New York Yankees baseball franchise. (I was curious as to whether or not the team was inherited. It wasn’t. […]
Posted in Economics, Politics | Also tagged American aristocracy, death tax, Department of the Interior, estate tax, George Steinbrenner, Small Business Administration, tax, tax policy, tax the rich, the growing gap between rich and poor, the plight of the overtaxed rich |
By Mark | February 17, 2010
When I sat down here tonight, in my tattered blogging leotard, my intention was to write something on the apparent effectiveness of Obama’s stimulus spending, and the possibility that his recently proposed budget would “shift $112 billion away from the nation’s top earners in 2012.” But, while trying to find a way to connect those […]
