Tag Archives: rich get richer

No tax cuts for the rich

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, Plutocracy, Putin, 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 | 7 Comments

Bill Moyers on plutocracy

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, Plutocracy, plutonomists, plutonomy, Revisiting Plutonomy: The Rich Getting Richer, Roger D. Hodge, the growing gap between rich and poor, the veneration of wealth | 11 Comments

Connect

Recent Comments

BUY LOCAL... or shop at Amazon through this link

Banner Initiative

Jeff Clark

Elsewhere

Shop at Amazon