Tag: wealth inequality

If between 1979 and 2018, the American economy almost tripled in size, so where did the gains go? Most went to the top.

In 2016, the top 1 percent paid 37.3 percent of individual income taxes.

The only solution, both to alleviating the underlying problem of inequality and countering the energized far right it has produced in so many places appears to be for the left to counter it with a more positive populism of its own.

What people who are interested in action against climate change might do is vocalize the threat against the wealthy should climate change ruin our civilization.

Prosecutors have charged 33 parents, including Hollywood stars Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin.

Counting up the number of billionaires in a nation can give us a vivid anecdotal sense of how concentrated a nation’s wealth has become.

Real people in the real world, those not at the top, have experienced a decade of ever greater instability, while the inequality gap of this beyond-gilded age is sure to shape a truly messy world ahead.

The rich keep getting richer.

This wealth tax looks like a very good thing. Repair the infrastructure, wipe out the student debt, and get single-payer healthcare well established. And all just by taxing a bunch of uber-wealthy.

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.