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Mitch cashes in on a long shot.
Our mad science advisor Mitch Macaphee is not, in fact, a billionaire, though as a mad scientist, he can invent all the money he wants.
That’s one small step for money.
The increasingly crusty-looking billionaire owner of Virgin Galactic Richard Branson took a sub-orbital flight aboard a rocket plane last week. News outlets like MSNBC spent nearly an entire day’s worth of air time covering this monumental achievement and the presser/victory rally that followed. So, just to be clear – a self-obsessed billionaire essentially did what … Continue reading That’s one small step for money.
Sharing the wealth.
We already have a wealth tax – it’s called property taxes, and it’s massively regressive. We need a tax that accounts for all wealth, not just home ownership.
Subsidizing oligarchy.
With all of their wealth and power, the billionaires still ask for public assistance. Worse, they encourage people to jump up and down like children, competing for the rare privilege of giving them more money.
Another week that was.
We need to do better for the people of Yemen than to put then on the losing side of a vote of 55 to 44. Be sure to remind your federal legislators (and our president) that this is on them.
Swear in.
Trump is part of the broader reactionary political machine that encompasses Congressional Republicans, conservative foundations, rogue billionaires, and sheet-wearing (as well as non-sheet wearing) Klansmen.
Picking your friends.
The overriding theme of Trump’s appointments is “opposite day”: putting people in charge of federal departments towards which they are either actively hostile or blissfully indifferent.
For the money.
We can counteract all of Adelson’s and the Kochs’ billions by simply not being gullible, by standing up and voting, by organizing, and by exercising those formal constitutional rights that haven’t yet been excised in service to corporate power.
Dear Santa.
Our nation’s millionaires and billionaires can now expect a little something extra in their Christmas stocking this year.