http://marionjensen.com/2010/08/author-interview-wanda-shapiro.html Some classic Greenwald cynicism: UPDATE: White House spokesman Jay Carney previewed President Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight as follows: “The State of the Union will be . . . about the central mission that we have as a country and his focus as president: Building a country and an economy where we reward […]
Tag Archives: taxes
Trying to Keep a Straight Face.
24-Jan-12Logic.
15-Dec-11I think it must be true that we do not have a democracy if we are unable to (legally) discomfort a small minority (let’s call them the 1%) by means of an incredibly popular and fiscally and morally wise law. It was a key Democratic demand but party leaders abandoned a surtax on millionaires to […]
88% of the Wealth, 86% of the Taxes.
22-Nov-11This is painfully obvious, but I see and hear the Republican talking points in many places in our society about how high a percentage of the taxes the rich have to pay. The car mechanic in my town has a sign about how unfair it is that the top 20% pay more than 80% of […]
Trillion-dollar coins, Monetary Policy, Andrew Jackson, Tertullian, and an Actual Solution to this Mess.
15-Jan-13http://thelittersitter.com/2013 I found myself laughing at the trillion-dollar coin idea today – someone had told me about it, and like any sane person I dismissed it as some kind of odd viral silliness – but I read up on it in the Atlantic and had a good chuckle or two. Credo quia absurdum. Basically this is […]