By Mark | December 2, 2010
I don’t know that I’m all that surprised to hear that all 42 Republican Senators have gone on record saying that they’ll block any legislation moving through Congress until the Bush tax cuts on the wealthy are extended. I kind of expected as much, given the amount of money they receive from the CEOs of […]
Posted in Detroit, Economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged asshole Republicans, Bush tax cuts, class warfare, Indiana, Mike Pence, Morning Joe, Republican framing, tax the rich, taxes, theology of tax cuts |
By Mark | November 28, 2010
I know that I should be writing about TSA pat downs and the new Wikileaks brouhaha tonight, like everyone else with moveable appendages and a blog, but I can’t seem to get with the program. For whatever reason, I feel as though I need to stick with the Bush tax cuts. I know it bores […]
Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bush administration, Bush tax cuts, Columbo, David Stockman, deficit, Dick Cheney, Fareed Zakaria, fiscal responsibility, Hank Paulson, middle class tax cuts, OCD, Reagan administration, richest Americans, Ronald Reagan, tax policy, taxes, the growing gap between rich and poor, theology of tax cuts, TSA, Wikileaks |
By Mark | November 21, 2010
Billionaire investor Warren Buffet has long been outspoken in his belief that the rich in American need to pay their fair share in the way of taxes. While a majority of Americans would agree with Buffet, it’s not something that many of our leaders in Washington seem willing to bring up, let alone champion. As […]
Posted in Economics, Politics | Also tagged Bill Gates Sr., Bush tax cuts, Christiane Amanpour, deficit, estate tax, inheritance tax, Obama, Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength, Plutocracy, tax, taxing the rich, the growing gap between rich and poor, trickle down economics, Warren Buffet, Wealth and Our Commonwealth |
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, rich get richer, Ronald Reagan, Russia, tax the rich, taxing the rich, the growing gap between rich and poor, Venezuela, wealth inequality |
By Mark | November 16, 2010
Republicans want to extend the Bush tax breaks for the super-rich. They say that this is absolutely necessary, as it’s the rich who create jobs. It sounds logical enough, right? But, recent history tells us a different story. In 2001, when Bush first pushed these tax breaks through Congress, we were told that doing so […]
Posted in Economics, Politics | Also tagged Bush tax cuts, deficit, earmarks, hypocrisy watch, income disparity, Obamacare, poverty, tax relief act, tea party, the growing gap between rich and poor, unemployment |
