October 23, 2020What does the pandemic have in common with income inequality? Both target the same low-income people, and enrich the already-wealthy. According to Inequality.org, U.S. billionaires have seen their wealth jump over $930 billion since mid-March alone. If this interminable election season finally ends, and if–as polls suggest is possible (I’m too superstitious toContinue reading “A Trillion Here, A Trillion There…”
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Friedman Is Right About Bloomberg And Sanders
February 22, 2020I don’t usually care for Thomas Friedman’s columns. It isn’t that I necessarily disagree with his conclusions–although I often do– but he tends to adopt a “let me explain to those of you not as smart as me” tone that I find extremely annoying. But his recent column about Mike Bloomberg’s candidacy deservesContinue reading “Friedman Is Right About Bloomberg And Sanders”
Rich Guys For Higher Taxes, Businesses For Single-Payer
October 9, 2019Are more zillionaires joining “renegade” rich guys like Nick Hanauer and Warren Buffett and recognizing the dangers posed by the current gap between the rich and the rest? A recent article from the Guardian was titled “Patriotic millionaires want to pay more taxes.” Those millionaires didn’t mince words. If you believe the prevailing philosophy of USContinue reading “Rich Guys For Higher Taxes, Businesses For Single-Payer”
Culture Of Entitlement
June 19, 2019Among the (many) things that irritate me is the widespread habit of attributing characteristics or behaviors to whole groups of people. I’m not just talking about obviously reprehensible–and racist–broad-brush assertions about African-Americans or Jews or Muslims, etc., but accusations about “businessmen” or “poor people” or the growing animus against “rich folks.” With respectContinue reading “Culture Of Entitlement”
Patriotic Millionaires
August 6, 2018Prejudices against “those people” tend to be the familiar age-old biases based upon race, religion and the like, but other stereotypes abound and can be equally misleading. (In his teens, my middle son looked askance at anyone in the “business class”– he felt they all valued profit over people. When he grew up,Continue reading “Patriotic Millionaires”