Tag: wealth inequality

If they really want to "improve the state of the world," they should be using all their lobbyists and lawyers to make sure their tax money is supporting a cooperative national effort to protect the environment for their great-grandchildren and to remain competitive in the technologies of the future.

"Because it is time that we pay people what they are worth and not how little they are desperate enough to accept."

"At a time of record inequality, the very last thing we should do is line the pockets of the rich."

We ought to see their struggle as “a strike for democracy – against the plans of a tiny clique of billionaires to unilaterally impose their vision for the world.”

Capitalism is a perfect system for people like this, who care only about making more money than everyone else, and fail to grasp the importance of a healthy, working society.

America’s wealthy have never been wealthier. They should pay their fair share of taxes. The big switcheroo should be reversed.

Would less corporate concentration – and a weaker corporate capacity to raise prices – mean less inequality?

But poverty deniers won't look deeper, because they don't want to admit that anyone willing to work could be suffering in the richest country in the world.

Why do we feverishly build more walls when they offer us less and less protection?

The underlying problem isn’t that Americans have been living beyond their means. It’s that their means haven’t been keeping up with the growing economy. Most gains have gone to the top.