When framing tax legislation designed to drain the blood of its citizens, policymakers are wise to keep the language complex. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act made excellent use of that device. Now nobody seems to know who benefits from Trump’s hefty tax cuts. Continue reading
Our tolerance of the severe economic imbalance in the United States may have to do with the slippery use of a single term: wealth. Even Robert Reich is complicit . . . Continue reading
The most important person on Earth, U.S. President Donald J. Trump, has to be everywhere all the time, but risking travel hazards is not to be borne. To ensure his safety en route, the American taxpayer has set up some awesome traveling protocols to ensure he gets wherever he’s going in one great big piece. Continue reading
Inflation is such that I expect my grocery bills to be double what they were a few years ago, but being charged $15 for a head of cabbage was something I could not let go. Continue reading
Can the Girl Scouts stand up to today’s savage cowboys of corporate America? Continue reading
Trump’s maneuvers have left us frightened and feeling helpless. And no wonder. Those empowered to serve our interests and needs — politicians and corporations alike — have, in capitulating to Trump, abandoned us. Were we as woke as we are accused of being, this betrayal would draw our harshest condemnation. Continue reading
If we poor fallible human beings are capable of doing anything Christlike, it is feeding the hungry, tending the sick, comforting the lonely. Yet Trump recently cut federal funding for the country’s charitable programs. They are wasteful, he told us. They do not fulfill his policies, which alone express the will of the American people. That came as a surprise to the American people. Continue reading
Limits stultify human incentive. The chance to grab more than you need is what inspires the brightest among us, with success measured by limitless growth. So speak our revered advocates of capitalism. There’s just one problem. This poor milk cow we call our world does have limits, and they’ve been reached. What to do? Continue reading
School lunchtime. Anyone remember that? At a signal, scores of children spill out of classrooms into the hallway to storm the lunchroom. But what’s this? At the cafeteria entrance, one girl is coaxed out of line and told to wait outside. But she’ll miss her lunch, she points out. She’s not to get any, she is informed. Continue reading
Jesus is recorded as saying the poor will be with you always, perhaps his politic way of saying the money changers will be with you always, that is, the rich, who create the poor. This has turned out to be true. Our pox today is how monstrous large the discrepancy between poor and rich has become. Continue reading