History disagrees. At one point the top tax bracket was 91%. It worked. No one is suggesting anything that large these days, of course.
David Stockman was a Republican U.S. Representative from the Michigan and, later, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget under Reagan....
Correct. Gains being the key word there. A rising tide lifts all boats. But people aren't boats, and making the rich richer do not make the poor...
Yep. That's the only possible explanation. No, wait. The explanation is that they were . . . just tourists sightseeing. No violence! It's the...
Which he won't, so they will sue him, and he will sue them - and he will get to keep the money for five years or so until all the lawsuits settle...
I've invested in some fairly good stocks in my time - Nvidia, Qualcomm, Enphase, Tesla, Microchip. I invested in all of them because I thought they...
Early Christianity tried. It took them a while to get good at it. The example I gave here was the Church of England, a Christian sect created (in...
And in that thread you asked why anyone would make a religion up. I answered your question.
-Money. Religious leaders are experts at separating people from their money. -A sincere sense of doing good. If you really believe that your new...
So you've gone from 'when politicians talk about taxing the rich, they are talking about taxing sub-millionaires' to 'OK it's not sub-millionaires,...
Feel free to ignore anything he posts. Since he 1) represents a time when there was not as big an income gap and 2) he discusses concrete mechanisms...
In the 1900's most people weren't farming - and there were poor and rich then as well. It was the era of Rockefeller, Carnegie and Vanderbilt,...
If that were the only factor, we would see the same income and result inequalities today that we saw 100 years ago, since people have not gotten any...
If the poorer half of the country suddenly got a 1% improvement in their income, and the richer half got a 200% improvement, that would still be a...
The #1 issue facing me right now is that my sister in law is dying. The #1 issue that will face my kids is climate change. The #1 issue that the US...
A good sign. There is a lot of public reaction against conservative attempts to ban abortion and birth control.
The New York attorney general’s office just filed the judgments against Trump in Westchester County, New York. That's significant because Trump has...
You said "Since the choices are so bad." What do you think the choice will be in November? Agreed. Unfortunately, it works. And people will...
Well, except they may look at the economy right now, and the rate that inflation is dropping, and they may want that to continue. An often asked...
Which means it . . . has been studied. It can easily be proven mathematically. There's even a term for it - the Roche limit.
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