In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” Nick Carraway observes that “the rich are different from you and me.” Mitt Romney’s tax returns confirm it. The rich have access to deductions, evasions, loopholes and favorable rates we working stiffs can only dream of. The absurd truth is that the wages earned by those of us [...]
The Republican candidates for president are suddenly all hot to propose flat taxes. First Herman Cain, the pizza czar, came out with his loopy 999 plan. Now Rick Perry, humbled by his lack of debating skills and challenged to present something more serious than shooting coyotes while jogging, has come out with his own flat [...]
You’ve got to love the thinking here. Obama proposes a hefty $450 billion jobs bill, containing many items that Republicans used to favor. The tab is to be paid by raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans to their pre-Bush tax cut levels. The Republicans (surprise) oppose asking the rich to pay for the jobs the [...]
I’m on the road right now without access to all of my tools, so this one is in black and white only. It still amazes me that the GOP can get away with unabashedly siding with the wealthiest Americans against the interests of the poor and the middle class, and still manage to persuade so [...]
Readers commenting on my blog postings recently repeated two phrases that I hear a lot these days, sayings that have always seemed absurd to me in their simplicity and in their disregard for the way a society actually functions. You want ME to pay for YOUR healthcare? This is one of those stock questions that [...]
The battle over allowing the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans has reached the election year boiling point. The Democrats (finally) are framing this debate properly and putting Republicans on the defensive, so much so that House minority leader John Boehner got spooked and said that he’d support extending the middle class tax cuts [...]
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