Showing posts with label Income Inequality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Income Inequality. Show all posts
Thursday, June 25, 2026

Elon Musk, the First Trillionaire: A Capitalist Success Story with Some Caveats

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Just when you thought Elon Musk could not have gotten any richer, he announced the initial public offering (IPO) of SpaceX, an aerospace ma...
Monday, March 17, 2025

How Lockdowns and Other COVID Measures Have Caused Suffering, Even in 2025 (Part II)

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While the COVID pandemic might seem like a distant memory that started about five years ago, the truth of the matter is that we are still no...
Tuesday, January 2, 2024

New Robust Research Shows That Hysteria About Rising Income Inequality Is Unfounded

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When people find out that a firmly held belief they have is false, there is this grieving process, ranging from denial to sadness to anger. ...
Friday, October 18, 2019

Is the One Percent Finally Paying A Smaller Percentage In Taxes Than the Poor in the U.S.? Probably Not.

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Income inequality continues to be a rallying cry for the Democratic presidential candidates. Whether it is the idea of raising the  estate t...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Eight Reasons Why Elizabeth Warren's Wealth Tax Is a Poor Idea

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Since the Democrats regained power in Congress, they have been pushing for their wholly unoriginal idea of increasing taxes on the wealthy. ...
Sunday, October 2, 2016

Clinton's Criticism of "Trickle-Down Economics" Is Misplaced for a Number of Reasons

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The presidential debate last week was the first debate I actually watched during this election cycle. It was the three-ring circus I was exp...
Thursday, October 1, 2015

Soaking the Rich With Higher Income Taxes Won't Help with Income Inequality

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There are those in the United States who have so much wealth that they don't know what to do with it while there are others who have to ...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

Does Income Inequality Cause Decreased Economic Growth?

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The income inequality debate never seems to die. Its most recent revival was due to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Developme...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

If You Decide to Have Children, Get Married First

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Love and marriage. Love and marriage. Go together like a horse and carriage.  Those Cole Porter lyrics made me think of the importance of ma...
Monday, October 27, 2014

Would Piketty's Wealth Tax Help America Strike It Rich?

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Economist Thomas Piketty has caused all sorts of hullabaloo with his book Le Capital au XXIe Siècle (Capital in the 21st Century) because hi...
Friday, October 24, 2014

Note to Janet Yellen: Income Inequality Isn't Killing the American Dream

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Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen made a bit of a splash last week during her address last week on income inequality last week when s...
Friday, January 31, 2014

Harvard Study Suggests That Single-Parent Households, and Not Income Inequality, Cause Income Immobility

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Income inequality has become a cause célèbre for many on the Left these days. Oxfam has even  jumped on the income inequality bandwagon an...
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