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Tag: Taxing the wealthy

5 plutocracy-busting ideas from America’s progressive history

December 6, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik Business, Corporations, Financial reform, History, Politics, Taxes Leave a comment

The biggest difference between today’s super-rich capitalists and the robber barons [a much more descriptive term] of a hundred years ago appears to be

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​Poor Leon Cooperman, Chapter 2

October 11, 2012 Barbara Finch 2012 Election, Business, Corporations, Economy, Politics, Republicans Leave a comment

Things just don’t seem to be getting much better for poor Leon Cooperman, about whom I have previously written on Occasional Planet. He still

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99 percenters’ top 5 grievances against the 1 percent

February 7, 2012 Mike Davis Corporations, Economy, Financial reform, Politics 3 comments

When confronted with accusations regarding his history as a corporate raider with Bain Capital, Mitt Romney has famously responded that his accusers are “jealous”

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Millionaires in Congress oppose Obama’s “Buffett Rule”

September 21, 2011 Gloria Shur Bilchik Congress, Politics, Taxes Leave a comment

They want us to believe that expecting rich people to pay their fair share of taxes is a job-killing, economic mistake. But that’s not

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Polls: Overwhelming public support for President’s fair-share tax plan

September 19, 2011 Gloria Shur Bilchik Congress, Economy, Obama, Taxes One comment

Ideology-driven, intransigent, Norquist-pledge-signing, Obama-hating Congressional Republicans might not get it, but kitchen-table Americans do. Public opinion polls released in the past few days indicate

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