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
Tag: Taxing the wealthy
Poor Leon Cooperman, Chapter 2
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
99 percenters’ top 5 grievances against the 1 percent
When confronted with accusations regarding his history as a corporate raider with Bain Capital, Mitt Romney has famously responded that his accusers are “jealous”
Millionaires in Congress oppose Obama’s “Buffett Rule”
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
Polls: Overwhelming public support for President’s fair-share tax plan
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