Posts by jason330

Saying that Trump "lost" and Democrats "won" is a misreading of this. We all lost when we elected a carnival barker controlled by Moscow to be President. We continue to…

They have the guy cold. Stone can talk tough all he wants now, and play the role of the darling to wingnuts everywhere. In court, facing real jail time, he…

Late last year, as the South African government faced the prospect of its largest city running out of water, they took an unprecedented gamble. The government announced “day zero” –…

At long last...we now live in a country where continuing to think that smash and grab tax cuts are "good for the economy" identifies you as a full-blown idiot.

Elizabeth Warren is rolling out a “wealth tax” as a proposal to address the Gilded Age-levels of economic inequality currently blighting our futures (The Post):

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will propose a new “wealth tax” on Americans with more than $50 million in assets, according to an economist advising her on the plan, as Democratic leaders vie for increasingly aggressive solutions to the nation’s soaring wealth inequality. Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, two left-leaning economists at the University of California, Berkeley, have been advising Warren on a proposal to levy a 2 percent wealth tax on Americans with assets above $50 million, as well as a 3 percent wealth tax on those who have more than $1 billion, according to Saez. The wealth tax would raise $2.75 trillion over a ten-year period from about 75,000 families, or less than 0.1 percent of U.S. households, Saez said.

Good for her. My only quibble is that it’s too small. The political ground has shifted on taxation. People recognized Trump’s tax cut for what it was — another plutocrat smash-and-grab. Donors loved it, but voters didn’t.  Via Baloon Juice

You’d be forgiven for not knowing, or at least not knowing how to pronounce, Pete Buttigieg’s last name (it’s boot-uh-judge). His political experience to date includes two terms as mayor…

Progressive Delaware FB is a troll site. The call to have Senator Coons change his name is simply some mischief dreamt up by some down on his luck Delaware Republican…

"I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to capitalism that I have failed to see its relative merits. It started out with a noble and high motive, viz, to block the trade monopolies of nobles, but like most human systems, it falls victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has outlived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes."

Americans born in 1996 or after are known as “Generation Z.” A new Pew Research Center study shows that on a host of issues, from climate change to American exceptionalism…

When the press plays along so willingly, so have to wonder if they are in on the grift.

Rudy Giuliani now allows that there is a smoking gun. It is still warm to the touch, but now the President's TV lawyer says that proof is not proof. (A…

I don't love her and could say a lot of bad things about her, but why bother? She isn't going to be the nominee. And if she does become the…

Did he really do that? If so, that's awesome. Our tax structure is ludicrously flat. Did anyone actually listen to the thing? Can you fact check my headline for me?

Bernie would have beaten Clinton if the nominating process was fair and transparent. It wasn't, but it is better now thanks to the work Sanders put in after the nomination was decided. The Democratic Party is better for having Bernie Sanders in it on it. I also love who wins the Democratic nomination provided the contest is fair and transparent.