Category Archives: Income disparity

‘Absurd!’: US Billionaires Pay Lower Tax Rate Than Working Class for First Time

“It’s time to tax the billionaires,” economist Gabriel Zucman argues in a new analysis.

Taxing Income from Wealth Can Always Raise More Money Than a Wealth Tax

Why a wealth tax is not all it is cracked up to be, but a well-designed income tax can do a fine job of curtailing wealth disparity.

Stasi in the West

Governments across the West are enacting more draconian measures to silence all criticism and are increasingly asking citizens to inform on one another.

With US Workers on the March, Southern States Take Aim at Unions

Governors in the region are “truly astonished that workers might not trust their corporate overlords with their working conditions, pay, health, and retirement,” said one critic.

The Wars Come Home

Weapons, tactics, techniques and, maybe most importantly, ideology are already spreading in the US and across the Collective West from the Ukraine and Gaza Conflicts.

Grocery Store Consolidation: Manipulating Supply Chains and Manufacturing, for Corporate Influence and Profit . . . Redux

More squeezing of the poors and shrinking middle class sought, via a US grocery store merger creating combined company market share of 22%

James Galbraith: Industrial Policy Is a Good Idea, but So Far We Don’t Have One

Industrial policy, despite recent lip service, is out of favor because doing ambitious things isn’t lucrative enough for the right people.

US Firms Have Little Financial Incentive to Comply with the Minimum Wage

More on “American hates the poors”: companies face hardly any downside in cheating on disgracefully low minimum wages.