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Middle class Michiganders to pay considerably more in taxes despite the anti-tax rhetoric of Lansing Republicans

By Mark | February 19, 2013

Reading an article in the Detroit Free Press this evening about how taxes are going up precipitously on working class Michiganders, I’m reminded of something that I wrote about a year ago for this site. Here’s how my post began. Why is it that we allow the Republicans to refer to themselves as the anti-tax [...]

Posted in Economics, Michigan, Observations, Politics | Also tagged anti-university, class warfare, crazy ideas that just might work, Earned Income Tax Credit, Ed Asner California Association of Teachers, EITC, Emergency Financial Manager, Emergency Financial Manager Act, higher education, income disparity, income tax, Kickstarter, local income tax, Michael Stampfler, Michigan, Michigan Republicans, public education, revolution, Rick Snyder, tax credits, tax policy, tax the rich, trickle down economics, we need a revolution | 20 Comments

How do you convey to people the seriousness of what’s happening to Michigan’s working class?

By Mark | April 23, 2012

Why is it that we allow the Republicans to refer to themselves as the anti-tax party, when they keep demonstrating that they clearly aren’t? Sure, they’re all for the cutting of business taxes, inheritance taxes, and other taxes that would threaten to decrease the wealth of their party’s high-net-worth donors, but, invariably, those shifts in [...]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Ideas, Politics, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged anti-university, class warfare, crazy ideas that just might work, Earned Income Tax Credit, EITC, Emergency Financial Manager, Emergency Financial Manager Act, higher education, income disparity, income tax, Kickstarter, local income tax, Michael Stampfler, Michigan, Michigan Republicans, public education, revolution, tax credits, tax policy, tax the rich, we need a revolution | 58 Comments

The Buffett Rule dies in Congress, but, like Tupac, and Jesus, it shall rise again

By Mark | April 16, 2012

I was all set to write about Tupac, and how I’d known that he was a hologram all along, but then I started reading about today’s failure by the Senate to act on the so-called Buffet Rule, which would have imposed a minimum tax of 30% to all individuals making more than one million dollars [...]

Posted in Art and Culture, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bernie Sanders, Buffett Rule, Chuck Schumer, class warfare, Coachella, Eric Cantor, holograms, income inequality, Jesus, Joint Committee on Taxation, Jon Kyl, Maine, Mitt Romney, national debt, payroll tax, small government, small government Jesus, Susan Collins, tax loopholes, tax the rich, the growing gap between rich and poor, Tupac, Warren Buffett | 26 Comments

The takeover of America by the super-wealthy

By Mark | June 18, 2011

This brilliant explanation by former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, as to what’s really been going on in America, economically speaking, has been going around the internet for the past few days. I suspect that most of you have already seen it, but I thought that I should put it up here on the front page, [...]

Posted in Economics, Politics | Also tagged American aristocracy, capital gains, class size, class warfare, infrastructure, MoveOn, national debt, patriotism, Robert Reich, tax the rich, taxes, the growing gap between rich and poor, The Truth About the Economy, threats to the middle class, treason | 19 Comments

This wasn’t the Democratic response I’d been waiting for

By Mark | March 31, 2011

As of today, Rick Snyder has been our Governor for three months. To mark the occasion, the Michigan Democratic Party released the following video. While I appreciate that they’re trying to get the word out about the administration’s agenda, I had hoped for something a little more substantive. Maybe I’m naive, but I’d hoped that [...]

Posted in Ideas, Michigan, Politics, Rants | Also tagged Mark Brewer, Michigan Democratic Party, political ads, prison reform, regressive taxation, Rick Snyder | 32 Comments

Tag Archives: progressive taxation

Middle class Michiganders to pay considerably more in taxes despite the anti-tax rhetoric of Lansing Republicans

How do you convey to people the seriousness of what’s happening to Michigan’s working class?

The Buffett Rule dies in Congress, but, like Tupac, and Jesus, it shall rise again

The takeover of America by the super-wealthy

This wasn’t the Democratic response I’d been waiting for

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