Showing posts with label class-entitlement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label class-entitlement. Show all posts
Saturday, October 16, 2021

A lump of coal in your Christmas stocking

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Letter to Joe Manchin Wouldn't you like that though. You've made plenty from coal and another lump couldn't hurt. But consider t...
Sunday, September 12, 2021

The only sure thing is climate change and taxes

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  U.S. tax rates change over time. In 1913 the highest earners paid only 7 percent, but in 1918 they paid 77 percent to pay for the first w...
Monday, September 06, 2021

Of mice and (greedy) men

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  On the final day of August a Washington Post headline read, “ Corporate America launches massive lobbying blitz to kill key parts of Demo...
Friday, January 08, 2021

About those First Amendment rights

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  On January 7, 2021 Senator Josh Hawley tweeted: “This could not be more Orwellian. Simon & Schuster is canceling my contract because ...
Thursday, August 27, 2020

Divided by lies

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Politicians lie. In that, they are all the same. They differ only in the outrageousness of their untruths. Some politicians lie unintentiona...
Monday, August 24, 2020

Wrong name. Right problem.

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  Systemic Racism is not a good name for it. It’s not a formal system and there is no formal name. And yet it’s there, flowing through our c...
Monday, February 10, 2020

Studebakers and Capitalists

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When I last visited South Bend, Indiana, I assumed it was for the first and final time. But karma doesn’t work that way. It puts one in situ...