The past few days have been absolutely fucking nuts. Donald Trump promised to defund Social Security and Medicare if reelected, accelerated his work to destroy the U.S. Postal Service in advance of the 2020 election, and once again claimed wrongly that it was him, and not Barack Obama, who signed “Vetrans Choice” into law. Oh […]
Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Affordable Care Act, bathtub, Ben Sasse, Bernie Sanders, Delivering Government Solutions in the 21st Century, Donald Trump, eviction, executive actions, executive orders, Grover Norquist, Joe Biden, masks, Medicare, Nancy Pelosi, New Deal, Obamacare, Paul Krugman, payroll tax, post office, preexisting conditions, small government, social security, taking credit for things you didn't do, tax cuts, tax policy, The Lord, unconstitutional, United States Postal Service, Vetrans Choice, vote by mail |
By Mark | October 6, 2019
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 […]
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, research funding, rich get richer, tax policy, the top 1%, threats to the middle class, ultra-millionaire tax, Warren Dunes, wealth inequality, wealth tax |
Can someone help me understand something… Why, during this upcoming City Council meeting, is there going to be a public hearing on the subject of Eastern Michigan University’s plan to privatize their parking? I mean, I understand, based on the following letter by Ypsilanti City Attorney John Barr, that EMU legally has to have the […]
By Mark | December 23, 2017
While sold to the American people as a “middle class tax cut” that wouldn’t help the super-rich like Donald Trump, the tax reform legislation just passed by the Republicans is, in fact, a windfall for the rich that does considerably less for American’s middle class than the Obama stimulus package of 2009 did. Had the […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged #CorkerKickback, America Cares Act, Bob Corker, budget deficit, Children's Health Insurance Program, CHIP, cruelty, Dianne Feinstein, Donald Trump, Ezra Klein, FDR, health care, health insurance, mandates, Medicaid, Medicare, middle class tax cuts, New Deal, Paul Ryan, poverty, Republican lies, rolling back the New Deal, social safety net, social security, stimulus, tax reform, tax scam, the top 1%, threats to the middle class, wealth inequality, welfare |
By Mark | November 28, 2017
If you read this site, you know the Republican tax bill is shortsighted, cruel and stupid. You know that, even though it was sold to us as a middle class tax cut, the truth is, tax cuts for the middle class are small and temporary, while the tax cuts for billionaires and corporations are large […]
Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alabama, America Cares Act, American aristocracy, Arizona, Bob Corker, Donald Trump, Doug Jones, estate tax, higher education, Jeff Flake, John McCain, national debt, redistribution of wealth, Resistbot, Roy Moore, scientific research, Senate, Senate Budget Committee, Steve Daines, tax reform, tax scam, threats to the middle class, wealth inequality, withholding consent |
