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, research funding, rich get richer, tax policy, taxes, the top 1%, threats to the middle class, ultra-millionaire tax, Warren Dunes, wealth tax 27 Comments
Ann Arbor votes for an unfunded downtown park over density and affordable housing
Heading into the last election, I didn’t pay a lot of attention to local races. I, of course, did my research on the local candidates and ballot initiatives that I’d be voting on, but, for the most part, I focused on national races, trying, as best I could, to help the Democrats take back the […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Uncategorized Also tagged affordable housing, Alan Haber, Ann Arbor Central Park Ballot Committee., Ann Arbor City Council, Ann Arbor Public Library, anti-growth, Core Spaces, density, economic development, Fifth Avenue, Jessica Letaw, Library Lot, Linh Song, Mary Jo Callan, parking lots, parks, Proposal A, public education, public space, Saturday Six Pack, segregation, social mobility, Urban Park and Civic Center Commons, urban parks, Voters for a Responsible Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Washtenaw County Office of Community and Economic Development, Water Street Commons, Will Hathaway, Ypsilanti 172 Comments
Cohen’s $600,000 from AT&T illustrates just what a joke it was when Trump promised to “drain the swamp”
Trump ran for president as a populist reformer. He told people that he was going to “drain the swamp” of Washington, D.C., and restore the government to the people of America. In October of 2016, right before the election, Donald Trump told a campaign rally in Wisconsin, “It is time to drain the swamp in […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged AT&T, CNN, Cooley Law, Department of Justice, Donald Duck, Donald Trump, drain the swamp, Essential Consultants, ethics, honesty, lies, lobbyists, mergers, Michael Cohen, Mitch McConnel, Obamacare, Paul Ryan, populism, Randall Stephenson, Republican lies, Sheldon Adelson, Stormy Daniels, tax cuts, Time Warner 3 Comments