Not All Taxes Have to Hurt

Not All Taxes Have to Hurt

Taxes needn’t Be a strain; If rich folks help us Share the pain. Taxes are deeply emotional and make for hot political theater. Whenever the T-word is blurted out, our anxiety zooms. That’s the whole idea. Millionaires, who rightfully are the target for...
Gates Backs the Wall Street Tax at the G20 Summit

Gates Backs the Wall Street Tax at the G20 Summit

The world’s second-richest man and a group of American nurses on the frontlines of the Occupy Wall Street protests came to the G20 summit in Cannes, France this week to advocate for the same thing. Bill Gates came because French President Nicolas Sarkozy asked...
Paulson’s Plaintive Plea

Paulson’s Plaintive Plea

Who’s the most befuddled Wall Streeter of all? The richest guy on the Street. In assessing the spreading public protest against the rampaging greed of today’s financial elite, John Paulson turns out to be as confused as a goat on Astroturf. Oh, he gets...
Measuring Progress

Measuring Progress

Tent cities and shacks sprung up on empty lots across the country. Food lines at soup kitchens wrapped around city blocks. Unemployment soared to 25 percent. Farmers watched helplessly as crop prices plummeted, then lost their land. The evidence was clear, yet at the...