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Why Don’t Billionaires Pay the Same High Tax Rates the Rest of Us Pay?
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The truth is America has lost its way if commoners pay a rate of 40% but its billionaires pay next to nothing. As with everything else in polarized America, billionaires proclaiming space … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Billionaires, Cartels, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Jeff Bezos, Medicare, Monopolies, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Social Security, Tax Havens, Taxes
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The Looming Financial Nightmare: So Much for Living the American Dream
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged American Dream, Cronyism, Debt, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, empire, fascism, financial crisis, geopolitics, Government Corruption, Gross National Product, imperialism, Irwin A. Schiff, national debt, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, tax protest, Taxes, war
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For Economic Truth Turn To Michael Hudson
By Paul Craig Roberts Source: PaulCraigRoberts.org Readers ask me how they can learn economics, what books to read, what university economics departments to trust. I receive so many requests that it is impossible to reply individually. Here is my answer. … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Environment, Financial Crisis, Labor, Neoliberalism, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Work
Tagged austerity, capitalism, Classical Economics, Debt, Economic Rent, Economics, elites, environment, External Costs, financial crisis, Financialization, J Is for Junk Economics, Michael Hudson, Natural Resources, Neoliberalism, privatization, Supply-side Economics, Taxes, unemployment
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Financial Tyranny: ‘We the People’ Are the New Permanent Underclass in America
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Health, Militarization, military spending, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Affordable Care Act, America, Asset Forfeiture, Big Pharma, Civil Asset Forfeiture, empire, financial crisis, Government, Health Insurance, healthcare, imperialism, military spending, obamacare, police state, Poverty, Robert L. Schulz, surveillance state, Taxes, U.S. Foreign Policy, war
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Policing for Profit: Jeff Sessions & Co.’s Thinly Veiled Plot to Rob Us Blind
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corruption, culture, Drug War, Dystopia, Law, police state, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged Asset Forfeiture, Civil Asset Forfeiture, drug war, Dystopia, Forfeiture Laws, Jeff Sessions, Justice Department, Nonviolent Resistance, police state, policing for profit, State Crime, State Theft, Taxes, theft by cop, War on Drugs
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Now Just Five Men Own Almost as Much Wealth as Half the World’s Population
By Paul Buchheit Source: CommonDreams Last year it was 8 men, then down to 6, and now almost 5. While Americans fixate on Trump, the super-rich are absconding with our wealth, and the plague of inequality continues to grow. An analysis of 2016 data found that the … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Recession, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, Big Agra, Bill Gates, Billionaires, Biotech, Charitable Foundations, economic inequality, Economics, Education, Facebook, financial crisis, Global Elites, income gap, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Meritocracy, Microsoft, NGOs, Oligarchy, Philanthropy, Plutocracy, Taxes, Warren Buffett, Wealth, Wealth Disparity, Wealth Gap
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The lottery and social despair in America
By Andre Damon Source: WSWS.org This mania, so generally condemned, has never been properly studied. No one has realized that it is the opium of the poor. Did not the lottery, the mightiest fairy in the world, work up magical … Continue reading
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Tagged American Dream, economic crisis, economy, Gambling, Inflation, Lottery, Mega Millions, Poverty, Powerball, Precariat, Taxes
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