Tag: super rich

“The increases in billionaire wealth continue to defy gravity in the real economy where millions have lost their jobs, health, and livelihoods.”

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.

The voice of the people needs to be heard. Not through violence but consistent demand en mass.

European social scientists see poverty as “social exclusion,” the incapacity to lead the life that most of society considers minimally decent.

It’s true that judges, particularly those appointed by politicians backed by the wealthy, might put barriers in the way of a wealth tax

"Will we tolerate it? Or will we take back our democracy from the oligarchs who run this country?"

"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."

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.

Remember the famous taxicab scene from the great film On the Waterfront? Ex-boxer Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) telling his older brother Charlie...

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.