Deval Patrick has become very, very rich since leaving the post of Massachusetts governor. That’s what happens when you become a managing director of Bain Capital, one of the behemoths in the private equity industry. Patrick became rich working for a company—being a managing director of a company—that has screwed thousands of workers, especially 30,000 […]
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Episode 157: Deval Patrick Destroyed Peoples’ Jobs; The $1.5 Trillion Haul From A Tax on Wall Street
Posted on 20 November 2019.
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Financial Transactions Tax Springtime Version
Posted on 28 May 2015.
I’ve written about this a lot: the financial transactions tax. And now a little update, via Bernie Sanders’ campaign. He’s for it. Duh. To pay for college for everyone.
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Financial Transactions Tax Rears Its Head A Tad
Posted on 12 January 2015.
Oh, so, the Democrats have awakened. Now, it’s the “middle-class” that is in vogue because somehow the campaign to lift people out of poverty via a hike in the minimum wage was a drag on Democrats politically (stupid argument, but a different story). It’s time for tax cuts to be paid for a little by Wall Street.
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It’s Not Raining, We’re Getting Peed On (4): The Scam of the Deficit Crisis
Posted on 03 December 2010.
Over the past three days, we’ve looked at the phony deficit crisis withe excerpts from my new book, "It’s Not Raining, We’re Getting Peed On: The Scam of the Deficit Crisis", here (from the introduction), here (a taste of the the very Stupid Statements made about the deficit and debt) and here (who is behind […]
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