Tag: super rich
“It’s going to be a billionaire Thanksgiving.” Wealth of US richest...
“The increases in billionaire wealth continue to defy gravity in the real economy where millions have lost their jobs, health, and livelihoods.”
No, we’re not all in this together. How the super-rich are...
There are at least three good reasons why wealthy Americans should be doing a LOT MORE to give something back to the nation that made them rich.
Time to rein in the super rich
The voice of the people needs to be heard. Not through violence but consistent demand en mass.
Are America’s rich getting tired of winning?
European social scientists see poverty as “social exclusion,” the incapacity to lead the life that most of society considers minimally decent.
Papers owned by oligarchs unsurprisingly oppose a wealth tax
It’s true that judges, particularly those appointed by politicians backed by the wealthy, might put barriers in the way of a wealth tax
Graphic: Yes, the richest Americans really do pay less in taxes
"Will we tolerate it? Or will we take back our democracy from the oligarchs who run this country?"
While poorest scapegoated, analysis of 25 world’s wealthiest families a reminder...
"It's funny that the real truth about income inequality is not coming from the south like some would like you to believe—the sucking sound draining the middle-class is the 1 percent... Just saying."
Can inequality be hardwired into our DNA?
We need more than a moratorium on making inheritable edits in our genetic code. We need a moratorium on people getting rich off of editing our genes.
On the (Empire’s) Waterfront
Remember the famous taxicab scene from the great film On the Waterfront? Ex-boxer Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) telling his older brother Charlie...
Dead end Amerika
We who ‘know better’ should teach our young that Socialism is not totalitarianism, or fascism. Rather, it can be a solution to this terrible and deadly income polarization our nation has been operating under.
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Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.
Del Monte Bankruptcy to destroy 420,000 Peach Trees in California
A steady decline in demand for canned products as consumers shift toward fresh produce and several other factors led to this collapse.