Blame the unions, blame the unemployed, blame loans to the poor, blame the government... As income and wealth increasingly go to a few at the top public anger is directed at the economy's victims. more »
dailykos.com — The tax rate in the US is so low, it's one of the world's most popular tax havens, where the wealthy come to dodge taxes in their home countries. Probably no one ever told you that before, but take a look at the global tax chart below and notice where the US is -- at the bottom, among the low-life low-tax nations where the drug lords, defense contractors, and tax-evading Plutocrats hide their money:
The Washington Post ran a story how hard it is for a family making only $250K a year. Just who could a story like this be written by and for? How many ways does this story mislead its readers? If you want to write about hardship write some stories about and for the rest of us! more »
July 4, 1776, Independence Day celebrates our fight to cast off colonial rule by a wealthy elite who were keeping the benefits of our labors for themselves. We fought this system and we won our independence. more »
Since the Reagan-era changes in the country's tax and regulation policies more and more of the wealth and income generated by our economy has been flowing upward to fewer and fewer people. We have now reached the point where wealth is at least as concentrated as it was in 1929. With similar consequences. more »
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