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  • Tax (Break) Day – Truthout

    Listening to what corporate America has to say about their taxes, one might draw the conclusion that the US tax system places an unequal burden on big business. However, that’s simply not the case: Over the last 50 years, the… Continue reading

  • Mixing Quotes Like DJ Anarchocynic: Einstein, Gandhi, MLK & Thoreau

    Philosophizing can be stupidly long winded. I know from personal experience: I can blather with the best of them (just watch some of my earliest podcasts). Here, I begin collecting some of my favorite short but sweet quotes so you,… Continue reading

  • The Financial War Against the Economy at Large

    …By not raising taxes on the wealthy or using the central bank to monetize spending on anything except bailing out the banks and subsidizing the financial sector, the government follows a pro-creditor policy. Tax favoritism for the wealthy deepens the… Continue reading

  • Unpacking More of the Long Con…

    What Republicans in red states who are spending their evening defending Romney need to realize is that Mitt Romney was talking about YOU! Republicans will no doubt continue to feed the myth that Obama is the food stamp president who… Continue reading

  • Makers & Takers: More of the Long Con

    A lot of my “everyday” existential philosophizing takes the form of asking people to be aware of the Long Con or the Big Sting… that is where you become your own mark in the long con game of bad faith… Continue reading