I’ve loved baseball since I was a kid. But, at the same time, I don’t believe we, the people, the taxpayers, should spend a single dime to help build baseball stadiums, or any sports arena, for the rich people or corporations who own teams. Don’t believe the hype—these projects never pay back the subsidies doled […]
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Episode 112: A Con Job—Using Taxpayer Dough To Build A Stadium; A Progressive Economic Roadmap
Posted on 12 December 2018.
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Wal-Mart Killed At Least 400,000 Jobs In A Dozen Years, While The Waltons Got Richer
Posted on 09 December 2015.
f you want to know why a political revolution is necessary (and why the status quo’s most intellectually fraudulent campaign in recent Democratic primaries is such a threat to working people), you need only check out this new report from our friends at the Economic Policy Institute. Wal-Mart (that would be the board the status […]
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Corporate Income Taxes Redux
Posted on 13 June 2013.
A few days ago, I wondered why we anyone would think that there needs to be a debate about whether there should be a corporate income tax. Yes, I know the answer — it has nothing to do with economics and everything to do with dumb, blind ideology. I never tire of showing how stupid the argument is. So, here you go.
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Wages Look Pale Again
Posted on 21 April 2005.
I see the Consumer Price Index and the reality of workers wages are giving out more signs of the increased pressure on the average worker. My friends at the Economic Policy Institute point out that prices are rising faster than wages. For the 11th consecutive month, prices have risen faster than wages (click the image […]
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What’s Up With That Trade Deficit?
Posted on 22 March 2005.
Wal-Mart distracted me from taking note of the gargantuan trade deficit numbers that came out: last year, the U.S. had a $666 billion trade deficit, an all-time record. Most people have been shrugging off the trade deficit, or maybe they basically don’t care what with the housing bubble making a lot of people feel like […]
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Bush’s Wet Dream: Starve the Government
Posted on 18 March 2005.
There is no crisis in Social Security but the president is doing everything possible to create a financial catastrophe to gin one up. This whole game reminds me of the hustlers in Times Square playing the Three Card Monte or find the pea under the cup (actually, because Times Square now resembles a mall that […]
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