by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 20, 2013 | Blog
How do unequal societies solve the problems — like traffic congestion — that make us miserable? They come up with solutions that make life easier for rich people. Politicians and bureaucrats “inside the Beltway” that circles Washington, D.C., pundits like to prattle,...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 13, 2013 | Blog
Can a democracy survive if the richest of the rich within it can pass on to their heirs, generation after generation, the vast bulk of their fortunes? In the United States, that question first became a top-tier topic of political debate back over a century ago....
by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 7, 2013 | Blog
The Bush years gave America's rich new and unprecedented preferential treatment at tax time. The fiscal cliff deal enacted in the early moments of 2013 leaves that preferential treatment in place. Who won the New Year’s eve standoff over the “fiscal cliff”? In one...
by Sam Pizzigati | Dec 17, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
Some of today's most greedy are running giant multinationals. Some are just running their mouths. Their stories remind us just how much needs to change, economically and politically, in the year ahead. The essence of greed? Simple. Greed amounts to taking more than...
by Sam Pizzigati | Dec 9, 2012 | Blog
The political friends of America's rich aren't aiming to convince us that higher taxes on the nation's highest incomes make no sense. They're just hoping to keep us distracted. Why do so many lawmakers in Congress oppose raising taxes on America’s wealthy, even just a...
