Tag: rich

If they really want to "improve the state of the world," they should be using all their lobbyists and lawyers to make sure their tax money is supporting a cooperative national effort to protect the environment for their great-grandchildren and to remain competitive in the technologies of the future.

"At a time of record inequality, the very last thing we should do is line the pockets of the rich."

Progressives cheered. Conservative heads simply “exploded.”

Unless progressive policies are demanded by American voters, most of our children and grandchildren will suffer from the continuing expansion of a Great-Depression-like wealth gap that already "dwarfs" the rest of the developed world.

The following facts should have been reported by the mainstream media, but unfortunately most of that media is controlled by the very people who have reason to hide the facts.

As one of the most unequal nations in the entire world, America is also, in many ways, one of the most poverty-stricken.

We just have to hope Americans have learned about the greed and deception of that arena full of super-rich.

Instead of an “economic boom,” most Americans are experiencing declines in all these dimensions of their lives.

They’re certainly doing a good job of burning down public education.

Corporations have, in effect, become inequality’s single most powerful engine. We need to slow that engine down.