The Druids Grove

It's made the shrinking middle-class and growing income disparity a topic in American politics. It has succeeded. I hope they can keep the topic going. Robert Reich is awesome.

"Money is speech and corporations are people." A very important concept most people aren't even aware of.

Dollar for dollar? Sure doesn't sound like it. From the sources I've found, including the IRS, it sounds like they're paying a much lower percentage.

There are still loop holes. I read recently the of the 30 richest people in the country they're averaging about 10%. What did Warren Buffet say he was paying, about 17%? As Mr. Buffett explained last month, “What I paid was only 17.4 percent of my taxable income — and that’s actually a lower percent...

It was 90% under Eisenhower for awhile.

Yes, I say do away with all the Bush era tax cuts. Including the capital gains tax cut.

That's not entirely true. The deficit exploded during Bush II after the tax cuts. I posted a graphic a few months back demonstrating that. Of course, financing two stupid wars that lasted a decade or so hasn't helped either.

http://www.businessweek.com/finance/occupy-wall-street/archives/2011/12/top_income_tax_rate_hows_80_sound.html Tax cuts do exactly what you would think, they make rich people richer and don't stimulate the economy. “countries that made large cuts in top tax rates such as the United Kingdom or the Un...

...you'll get rich.

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a ... ell-a-con/

As told by an successful entrepreneur.

http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/12/02/did-racism-cost-obama-votes-in-2008/ Traditional surveys struggle to capture socially unacceptable attitudes such as racial animus. This paper uses Google searches including racially charged language as a proxy for a local area’s racial animus. I use the Google...

When you're scrapping by trying to buy food, medicine, etc, paying 15% of what little you have in taxes definitely has an impact on your quality of life. I know the Republicans love to chatter on about flat taxes being fair, but even Warren Buffet doesn't think so. He knows that 15% of the millions ...