Working Life

I’ve been pretty clear that we should be significantly raising the taxes on the richest Americans–much higher than the top rates that were in place during the Clinton Administration, which is where the president-elect believes they should go. But, I’m happy at least to see some lines being drawn on estate taxes.   The Wall […]

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Maybe you feel, on days like this, the same way I do–that you live in an alternate universe. In my alternate universe, I wouldn’t consider cutting education, health care, or aid to the poor before asking the richest people in our society to pay their fair share in dues. In my alternate universe, I would […]

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  I continue to be amazed at the moral obscenity underway in our country. We are in a financial crisis, states are cutting education and health care, and we are wringing our hands over federal deficits–yet there is no serious discussion about significantly taxing the rich, who have reaped hundreds of billions of dollars in […]

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   Nothing is keeping my anger quotient higher than the refusal by politicians in New York state–and across the nation–to tax the rich. It is nothing less than an obscenity. We’ve got mountains of money piled high in a few bank accounts–and, yet, no one wants to ask those fortunate few to stop cuts in […]

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   The obscenity continues in America. The economy is destroyed–short-term and long-term–by incompetents and greedy people. But, it’s regular people who had nothing to do with this disaster who take the hit. And now we have the governor of New York blessing the disaster by taking aim at workers and letting the rich of the […]

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Admittedly, I’ve never been into the bi-partisan meme. Maybe it’s because I’m a labor movement person and the mission of the Republican party, and its allies, is to destroy the labor movement. But, I still remain mystified: why exactly, given the Republican party’s record, is the new Administration working so hard to win it over? […]

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   So much to read this morning. But, Goldman Sachs is all over the place so let’s check in on one of our great financial manipulators of recent times. The big news–front page of the Financial Times, big story on the Wall Street Journal’s website and front page of the business section in The NY […]

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   This is one of those moments when I feel like I live in la-la land. It’s possible that I am insane, stark-raving mad and delusional. Either that or there is a staggering moral obscenity underway in our country. We have plenty of money to fund what needs to be done–but our political leaders, on […]

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   Well, whatever happens today, I’m off early to do my citizens duty. in the meantime, I feel like I’m watching the Wizard of Oz. You have liberals joining with people like Robert Rubin saying "we really are so very much the same" and saying almost in unison we won’t tax the rich–in a serious […]

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   I was drinking my morning Joe here and, lo and behold, there is breaking news on the website of The Wall Street Journal: Exxon Mobil Corp. sets quarterly profit record for U.S corporations at $14.83 billion. Revenue rose 35% to $137.7 billion.    A profit record. Meaning, biggest ever. Revenue rose because millions of […]

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