Billionaires, Taxes and Inequality

by Joseph O'ShaughnessyF. Scott Fitzgerald supposedly said to Hemingway: "The Rich are very different from you and me." And Hemingway is said to have...

Warning: Health Care Disaster Looming

Here's the problem and I'm going right at it because we don't have much time.Congress is about to change the rules on health care....

The Parable of the Thieves

When reason fails, people fall back on superstition. The American society has long operated under the basic principle that hard work creates abundance and...

The Economics of Destruction

We are in a very serious time in the history of this country. Although it may not seem so to many, about 80% of...

The 500 Reactionary Rich

We have a serious problem in this country. It is not hard to recognize or to understand. It is simple and it is ruining...

Here’s How Right Wing Obstruction Affects You Personally.

Life is not a newsreel, someone once said. It is not a sound bite. It is not the mere reporting of Republican Reich Wing...

The Failure of Conservative Economics–Pt. IV–Bush, Cheney and Big Government by...

In 1994, in an interview, Milton Friedman said that in the 1990s there is “much less optimism and all the problems have been...

Let’s Talk About the National Budget.

Phony baloney. Just like Walker in Wisconsin, the talk about "austerity" is a bunch of rich white men talking bull shit about what needs...

Republicans and “Tea Party” Billionaires Attack Social Security

One of the attacks on the Middle Class being undertaken skillfully by the Koch Brothers and the Phil Anschutzes and the Rush Limbaughs and...

Budget Cuts–Coming After Your Social Security

It is time to pay attention to the Peterson Commission. And you had better pay attention and tell your friends and have them tell...

Paul Ryan and the Right Wing Budget to Oblivion

Representative Paul Ryan recently announced the Republican long-term budget plan. He calls it, jokingly perhaps, "Path to Prosperity."It is a roadmap to hell...

Governor Brownback, the Wizard of Oz

Has Kansas, under Governor Sam Brownback, become  second-rate, with a semi-Fascist government? The answer is in the history of the state since Brownback took...

A Nightmare in November

Here is the real danger for 2016. We are at a tipping point. It is very likely that few Americans understand the calamitous potential...

On Raising Taxes and Restoring the Dream

We have all benefited from lower taxes in the years since 1980. So we can’t simply say that the rich have benefited. We all...

Laffer Is Laughable…But It’s Not Funny.

Does anyone believe that Arthur Laffer, Ronald Reagan's guru, the author and prime suspect in the catastrophe known as "voodoo economics" is really an...