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 […]
Tag Archives: progressive taxation
This wasn’t the Democratic response I’d been waiting for
Posted in Ideas, Michigan, Politics, Rants Also tagged Mark Brewer, Michigan Democratic Party, political ads, prison reform, regressive taxation, Rick Snyder 32 Comments
Plutocracy in America
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, Plutocracy, tax rates, tax the rich, the concentration of wealth, wealth inequality 42 Comments
Raising the top marginal tax rate
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 […]
Posted in Economics, Politics Also tagged FiveThityEight.com, gas tax, inheritance tax, marginal tax rate, Nate Silver, tax rates, taxes, taxing the rich, the top 1% 14 Comments