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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

I listen to a lot of old music, and one of the things I've noticed is how little has changed over the years. This song dates back to 1990, when…

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…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfS6Nl962Qg A somewhat obscure item in the Petty catalog, "Walls" was written for Edward Burns' 1996 rom-com "She's the One" and released on the film's soundtrack album, which got far…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xhmPectY9U This time of year always reminds me of the first verse of this song -- Christmas has come and gone, and every kid has broken at least one toy…

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…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H29UNZCYQbg A little obvious, maybe, but see if it doesn't warm you up a little on this cold, cold, cold day. From 1972's "Sailin' Shoes."

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

Take a look at this New York Times puff piece on their state's shape-shifting, Wall Street-friendly, Jesus-humping junior senator taking her presidential campaign to Iowa. Ms. Gillibrand put emphasis on…