Tag: middle class
A 2 percent financial wealth tax would provide a $12,000 annual...
It's not hard to envision the benefits in work opportunities, stress reduction, child care, entrepreneurial activity, and artistic pursuits for American households with an...
America is Disneyland
America is being eaten alive by corporate greed; and Disneyland has been taken over by Scrooge.
What’s killing America’s middle class?
Just as progressives deliberately pushed public policies to create the middle class, so are today's economic royalists deliberately pushing plutocratic policies to destroy it.
Three insidious ways ‘overtaxed’ corporations are cheating America
The tax money withheld by the big corporations is desperately needed to restore living-wage opportunities to millions of workers.
The absurdity of corporate tax cuts during the corporate pillaging of...
Mainstream media opinion editors don't appear to have the courage to risk the disapproval of their bosses by printing the facts about corporate pillaging.
More evidence that inequality is spiraling out of control
Without empathy for lower-income Americans, Wall Street is content to ignore the ugly reality of our ever-widening wealth gap.
The anti-corruption revolution
Global uprisings against corruption can fuse middle-class concerns over the rule of law to a more radical critique of unequal political systems.
The absurd amount of entitlements that go to rich people
Wealthy Americans complain about ‘entitlements’ for the poor, but they keep collecting their own entitlements, to a degree that average Americans can only dream about.
Wall Street’s house of cards: Let’s play bankster three card monte
We haven’t even scratched the surface of the many many years and billions if not trillions of dollars scammed, tricked, kicked (hard) and stolen, and the harm done to the middle and working class.
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Progressives intensify campaign to replace Schumer after Democrats end shutdown without healthcare deal
A growing number of lawmakers, candidates, and activists are demanding new Democratic leadership after eight senators joined Republicans to reopen the government, leaving Affordable Care Act protections and Medicaid funding untouched.
‘Riots raging’: The misleading story Fox News told about Portland before Trump sent troops
ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence was misleading.
How Trump’s immigration dragnet harms all US workers
In all, the nation has so far lost more than a million foreign-born workers amid Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
Different battles, same struggle: The US war on China, Venezuela, and the international left
We must remember that these are not separate crises, but different fronts of the same struggle. And to resist one is to resist them all.
Voter backlash defies MAGA’s anti-reality hokum, entrapped by its own BS, rip-offs, venom &...
Trump promised unremitting revenge but that is a sharp, merciless two-edged sword about to redound on him and MAGA.