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4 Reasons Why the Corporate Income Tax Should be Doubled—Not Abolished
U.S. corporations need to pay for the many years of employee productivity and public research that built their trillion-dollar industries.A recent New York Times article by economist Laurence J....
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4 Money Grabs Show a Few Rich People Are the Ones Getting Wealthier in America
Only people who already have money can increase their wealth. Conclusion: The system is broken.It was shown in a recent report that the richest Americans have made millions from their stock holdings...
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The 20 Richest Americans Are Greedy Takers — Not Inspirational 'Makers'
They have all taken from the public or from employees, or through taxes or untaxed inheritances.The top individuals on the 2013 Forbes 400 list are generally believed to be makers of great companies or...
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4 Shocking Examples of American Inequality
America's middle class is further from the top than in all other developed countries.Inequality is a cancer on society, here in the U.S. and across the globe. It keeps growing. But humanity seems...
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5 Ways Rich People's "Entitlements" Cheat You and Me
And the more they take from us, the greater their belief that they deserve the wealth we all helped to create.The word 'entitlement' is ambiguous. For working people it means "earned benefits." For the...
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The 4 Most Profound Ways Privatization Perverts Education
Compared to other developed countries, equal education has been a low priority in America.Profit-seeking in the banking and health care industries has victimized Americans. Now it's beginning to happen...
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5 Hypocritical Justifications the 1% Use to Justify the America's Staggering...
The duplicity seems endless as the world's richest people rationalize the staggering wealth disparity. The hypocrisy is spread evenly among corporations, Congress, and free-market apologists, all of...
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7 Numbers that Show How Most Americans Were Robbed of a Comfortable Retirement
Millions of baby boomers are the victims of 35 years of deregulated greed. The dream of a comfortable retirement is dying for many Americans. It's being extracted as a form of tribute to the very rich,...
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4 Frightening Ways We're Reverting to the Dark Days of Our Past
Gains made in our country's progressive years are in serious jeopardy.We may have once believed that the darkest days were behind us, and that slow and steady progress for middle-class workers would...
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The Untaxed Americans: The Speculators, Hustlers, and Freeloaders of Wall Street
There are at least 5 good reasons why our country is ready for a financial transaction tax (FTT).Purchases of American products generally come with a sales tax, and often an excise tax, and possibly...
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Overwhelming Evidence that Half of America is In or Near Poverty
And it's much worse for black families.The Charles Koch Foundation recently released a commercial that ranked a near-poverty-level $34,000 family among the Top 1% of poor people in the world. Bud...
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4 Arguments That Scream "Save Public Education!"
A vibrant society makes great individuals, not the other way around. The education privatizers are trying to convince us that parental 'choice' will solve all the problems in our schools. But the...
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8 Things Mainstream Media Doesn't Have the Courage to Tell You
News sources speak for the 5%. The following are all relevant, fact-based issues, the "hard news" stories that the media has a responsibility to report. But the business-oriented press generally avoids...
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The Real Money-Making Methods of the Super-Rich Are Far From Praiseworthy
The effects of inheritance come first and merit second, not the other way around.Warren Buffett once claimed that the "genius of the American economy, our emphasis on a meritocracy and a market system...
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5 Powerful Reasons Why the Rich Should Pay Their Taxes and Not Game the System
The wealthiest Americans receive the greatest benefits, but treat their tax responsibility like a game.Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said, "It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally...It's a...
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5 Ways the Poor Are More Ethical Than the Rich
Nine out of 10 of the fastest-growing occupations are considered low-wage.Many wealthy Americans believe that dysfunctional behavior causes poverty. Their own success, they would insist, derives from...
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5 Ways Massive Inequality Is Paralyzing American Society
Progressive thinkers can't afford to disagree among ourselves as paralysis sets in.The severing of our society into a plutocracy and a peasantry is so far along that statistics almost cease to have...
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5 Extreme Acts of Greed that Screw the American People
All these issues have solutions.Examples of extreme inequality are becoming easier to find. Americans - especially young Americans - need to know the facts, and they need to know how they're getting...
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5 Facts to Set the Dangerously Deluded Education Reformers Straight
#1: Privatized education steals from the poor and gives to the rich.Free-market capitalists view education in terms of products and profits. The products, to them, are our children. The profits go to...
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3 Facts that Poverty-Deniers Don't Want to Hear
Any thinking person should be able to recognize the hardships of poor families.Three-quarters of conservative Americans say poor people have it easy.The degree of ignorance about poverty is stunning,...
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