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The UK’s chief financial regulator is for it. Sarkozy is for it. Time for a coordinated move?
Archive for the ‘Income distribution’ Category
June 19th, 2009
Category: 2009 Democratic Agenda, Democrats in Congress, Health Care, Income distribution, Political Science
$1.9 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy pass easily; $1.6 trillion for health care leads to panic. Discuss.
May 17th, 2007
Category: Income distribution
Yes, it has guest-workers. But it’s better than the status quo.
May 10th, 2007
Category: Campaign 2008, Income distribution
Giuliani stiffs a farm family: they offerered their place for a campaign stop and invited all their friends, but their farm isn’t worth $1 million and he wanted to talk about repealing the “death tax.”
February 24th, 2007
Category: Income distribution
About 5% of the nation’s population lives in “extreme or severe” poverty, according to official statistics.
August 28th, 2006
Category: Income distribution
Doug Besharov and Nick Eberstadt claim that the poverty rate grossly understates our progress in reducing the extent of severe and persistent material deprivation.
July 31st, 2006
Category: Income distribution
$70 billion a year is being stolen from the Treasury.
If the Bush Administration minds, it isn’t letting on.
July 28th, 2006
Category: Income distribution, Language and usage
Kevin Drum:
Clearly, the Republican Party is the party of common sense. After all, if you give a few hundred dollars a month to the poorest of the working poor, it’s only fair that you also give several million dollars to the richest of the idle rich.
July 28th, 2006
Category: Income distribution
“Class warfare is a fact of life, and the super-rich are winning in a rout.”
– Ezra Klein