Economy and Business
Tax the Rich
Taxes, like death, may be certain. Unlike death they can be finagled.
Who Cleans the Windows of Glass Houses?
It turns out that Lou Dobbs has employed undocumented workers to toil on his estates and tend to his family’s numerous horses. According to a recent investigative report in The Nation, the poster boy for the anti-immigrant crowd said he was told the workers were legal immigrants. What he didn’t say, as he did in April 2006, was that “employers who hire illegal aliens should face felony charges.” Perhaps Dobbs is getting tips from Meg Whitman.
Washington at Work–for the Wealthy
Most federal asset-building programs, the study explains, deliver their benefits through the tax code, an approach that almost guarantees that the wealthy will score, by far, the biggest benefits.
The Faces of Government
I had dinner the other night with one of those villains, a “faceless bureaucrat” working as a wildlife biologist for the Department of the Interior in northern Florida. A college friend of my wife, she had spent many years in research on endangered species, and now has moved into an administrative position where she supervises the research of other wildlife scientists.
Save the Billionaires’ Tax Loophole
Look out. They’re angry. Foaming-at-the-mouth angry. And they’re lashing out, saying they won’t take it anymore. As one of their leaders angrily cried, “It’s a war.” Indeed–they’re on the move to take their country back.
Save the Billionaires
Trim NASA Down to Size
President Barack Obama is surely on the right track in scratching our return to the moon and in dropping the Space Shuttle program.
Hot Fudge Sundae Diet
If the Republican Party gets any nuttier, we’re going to have to lock it in the attic when company visits.
Jobs vs. War
Poverty on the March
Congress has also greased the skids for American jobs to skitter overseas, and for employers here to import both high- and low-skilled workers to siphon off jobs from domestic payrolls. In the name of thrift, it has chiseled as well on unemployment, food stamps, housing, child care, and most other social services. Only military expenditures have spiraled upward unimpeded.
