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 […]
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The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You
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, Green New Deal, infrastructure, middle class, public education, 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
Obama’s fiery response to the Republican budget
President Obama delivered an uncharacteristically fiery speech the other day, at an Associated Press luncheon. You’ll find the video below, but, first, here’s a clip from an editorial about the speech that ran in yesterday’s New York Times. President Obama’s fruitless three-year search for compromise with the Republicans ended in a thunderclap of a speech […]
Posted in Economics, Politics, Rail, Uncategorized Also tagged Abraham Lincoln, Bush tax cuts, class warfare, Contract with America, defunding public schools, Eisenhower, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, federal budget, Franklin Roosevelt, G.I. Bill, George Bush, Head Start, Henry Ford, infrastructure, John Boehner, land grant colleges, Lyndon Johnson, Medicare, National Academy of Sciences, New Deal, Newt Gingrich, Obama, Paul Ryan, prosperity, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, safety net, Social Darwinism, social security, standing up to the Republicans, tax the rich, taxing the poor, the collapse of the Republican party, the conservative agenda, the growing gap between rich and poor, threats to the middle class, trickle down economics 4 Comments
Turning our backs on space, and ending the American century
With tomorrow’s launch of the Space Shuttle, the age of manned space exploration, after more than 50 years, will officially draw to a close in America. It’s a sad day, and I think that it speaks volumes concerning where we are as a country. The optimism that we once had as a nation is gone. […]
Posted in Education, Science Also tagged Afghanistan, anti-intellectualism, big bang, budget cuts, creationism, dumbing down of America, Gene Cernan, Iraq, James Webb Space Telescope, JFK, Jim Lovell, John F. Kennedy, NASA, Neil Armstrong, putting a man on the moon, space race, tax the rich, Whitey on the Moon 16 Comments