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, inheritance tax, Obama, Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength, 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, inheritance tax, middle class, Nicaragua, Nicholas Kristof, nuclear arms treaty, nuclear weapons, 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 |
By Mark | November 8, 2010
Bill Moyers spoke at Boston University a week or so ago, on the occasion of the the first Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture. Here’s video, for those of you who haven’t seen it yet. Watch this video on YouTube You can find a full transcript at TruthOut.org, but here’s my favorite part. …Yet the isolation continues […]
Posted in Economics, Politics | Also tagged A People’s History of the United States, Bill Moyers, Boston Univeristy, Citigroup, economic crash, Edward R. Murrow, Fair Elections Now Act, get the money out of Washington, Howard Zinn, Howard Zinn Lecture Series, money in politics, plutonomists, plutonomy, Revisiting Plutonomy: The Rich Getting Richer, rich get richer, Roger D. Hodge, the growing gap between rich and poor, the veneration of wealth |
The Nation just ran a good piece on American Plutocracy. Plutocracy, for those of you who don’t know, is a political system in which those with wealth rule. Under such a system, opportunities for social mobility are limited, and there’s an enormous disparity between those with money (and power) and those without it. Of particular […]
Posted in Economics, Politics, Rants | Also tagged American aristocracy, effective tax rate, estate tax, marginal tax rate, progressive taxation, tax rates, tax the rich, the concentration of wealth, wealth inequality |
I was planning to write something really ambitious tonight, deftly weaving together the growing threat of Plutocracy, the push to see Elizabeth Warren on the Supreme Court, and Andrew WK’s juvenile record for stocking via the arts, but I stumbled across this footage of the adorable Tina Fey pretending to be Sarah Palin, and decided […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Media, Politics | Also tagged Andrew WK, Elizabeth Warren, juvenile offenses, restraining orders, Sarah Palin, Saturday Night Live, SNL, stalking, Supreme Court, taxing the rich, the concentration of wealth, the plight of the overtaxed rich, Tina Fey, wealth inequality |
