Paul Buchheit
8 Types Of People That Continue To Get Screwed Over By America
Are political and corporate leaders even remotely aware of the conditions of society beneath the wealthiest 10% or so?
5 Acts Of Terror The US Government Has Imposed On The World
Every clear-thinking American knows that education and jobs are needed more than armed guards in poor neighborhoods.
5 Libertarian Pieces Of Writing That Read Like Complete Fiction
Free-market libertarians go to outrageous extremes to convince themselves and others of the infallibility of the market. Even when opposing evidence smacks them in the face, they conjure up sound bites that seem vaguely convincing but are in reality meaningless.
5 Reasons We Absolutely Should Not Cut Social Security (Because We’ll Die Otherwise)
Congress and others who apparently don’t study the facts, believe that Social Security is a government handout. But ‘entitlement’ means that people who have paid into a program all their lives are entitled to a reasonable return on their investment.
5 Signs The Super Wealthy Are Abandoning The United States
As they accumulate more and more wealth, the very rich have less need for society. At the same time, they’ve convinced themselves that they made it on their own, and that contributing to societal needs is unfair to them.
4 Ways Capitalism Is Ruining Your Life
The process is gradual, insidious, lethal. It starts with financial stress in various forms, and then, according to growing evidence, leads to health problems and shorter lives.
5 Devious Ways Corporations Are Violating American Liberties
We already pay dearly for energy, medicine, banking, and telecommunications services. But a little research reveals that we’re paying more—much more—in a variety of ways that our business-friendly mainstream media won’t talk about.
7 Consumer-Exploiting Tactics That Corporations Don’t Want You To Know
Tax-avoiding, consumer-exploiting big business leaders are largely responsible for these abuses. Congress just lets it happen.
3 Incredibly Shocking Ways Wealth Is Redistributed In The United States (And You Should Be P*ssed Off)
Some conservatives continue to claim that President Obama is unfriendly to business, but the facts show that the richest Americans and the biggest businesses have been the main – perhaps only – beneficiaries of the massive wealth gain over the past five years.
4 Frightening Ways We’re Reverting To The Dark Days Of Our Past
We may have once believed that the darkest days were behind us, and that slow and steady progress for middle-class workers would continue to be made. But greed and good sense are forever in competition.
4 Ways Entitlements For The Rich Cheat The Rest Of Us
Their entitlements can be summarized into four categories, each of which reveals clear advantages that the very rich take for granted.
5 Reasons Why Wall Street Should Be Taxed Like The Rest Of Us
There is currently no U.S. tax on the purchase of stocks, derivatives, and other financial instruments. The rest of us pay up to a 10 percent sales tax on the necessities of daily life.