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Mostly, it’s the schlemiels paying tax
Many working stiffs watch a third and more of every extra dollar earned disappear as income tax. Then, we’re hammered again with user fees and consumption taxes when we spend shrunken dollars […]
Fraud, fear and greed
If Romney Hates Government And Its Workers So Much Why Is He Running For President?, Dave Johnson, Campaign for America’s Future Mitt Romney says government workers are paid too well and in […]
The .01% wages war on the rest
From Robert Borosage, Campaign for America’s Future, March 29, 2012: In 2010, as the economy began its slow recovery from the Great Recession, a new study shows the richest 1 percent of […]
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The Rich Get Even Richer, Steve Rattner, New York Times, March 25, 2012 Steven Rattner is a contributing writer for Op-Ed and a longtime Wall Street executive.
Winners win, losers lose
The Age of Double Standards, Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect, March 19, 2012 “…Petty felons and 200,000 small-time drug users do prison time, while corporate criminals whose frauds cost the rest of […]
How much have Wall Street and banks changed?
Not much, according to Greg Smith, a London based Goldman Sachs’ executive director who is leaving with a loud message to the public. He contributed an Op-Ed to the New York Times, […]
VIHA CEO Howard Waldner in the news again
After Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times about the affluent exercising self-interest to make gains over the rest of us, Pamela Fayerman published a local illustration in the Times Colonist. […]
A very good year, for a few
The Rich Get Richer: 2010 Was a Very Good Year to Be in the 1%, Derek Thompson, senior editor at The Atlantic “This recovery has been a luxury item. For the bottom […]
What will Canada be?
I wonder if evangelical christian Stephen Harper would agree with views of American fundamentalist Franklin Graham, the million dollar a year preacher whose father Billy began ministering in the Christian and Missionary […]
Canada too!
Will American Anti-Labor Policies Infect Europe?, Dave Johnson, Campaign for America’s Future The threat is in the air: “Shut up and take the wage cuts or we will move your job to […]
No net-zero reality for IHA executives
In the blog article Failing healthcare managers still paid handsomely, I noted that average earnings of the top 10 people at the Fraser Health Authority rose almost $4,500 per month between 2008 […]
More not-net-zero reality
In the blog article Failing healthcare managers still paid handsomely, I noted that average earnings of the top 10 people at the Fraser Health Authority rose almost $4,500 per month between 2008 […]
BC’s income disparity worst in nation
Look past the political rhetoric, the paid advertisements and the work of reporters shilling for the B.C. Liberals. Look at information generated by the provincial government’s own statistical agency. It tells a […]
Romney pays 15% tax on $200m personal fortune
Mitt Romney: the gaffes in full, Josh Marshall, The Guardian “As a fabulously wealthy man running to be the president of a country that prides itself on its middle class identity, Romney […]
America’s turmoil taking it toward disaster UPDATED
At Truthdig, Joe Conason peels recent layers of respectability that hide a reprehensible man who happens to be frontrunner in Iowa presidential caucuses. The Bigots and Billionaires in Ron Paul’s Orbit. “For […]
For many, this is a depression
Does living luxuriously in secure compounds and travelling the world first class, richly clothed and dining extravagantly in the company of hired sycophants, qualify a person to determine or advise on social […]
Trending toward turmoil
The Poor, the Near Poor and You, New York Times, Nov. 23/11: “…And times are tough for the middle class. But everyone needs to recognize a chilling reality: One in three Americans […]
Democracy Or Plutocracy? A Chart
By Dave Johnson, Campaign for America’s Future: Updates:
Deeply corrosive changes
Call to end ‘corrosive’ top pay deals, Brian Groom, Business and Employment Editor, Financial Times, November 21, 2011 Excerpts: Executive pay should be radically simplified to halt spiralling awards that are “corrosive” […]
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Is Reality finally having an adverse impact on The White House? https://www.rawstory.com/leavitt-miller-pretti/ "White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt refused to defend…