I read an interesting article in Commentary, Obama’s Gay Rights Pander, by Abe Greenwald. In it he seems to insist that Hillary Clinton’s speech on gay rights does not go nearly far enough in promoting gay rights. “Think about it,” he writes. “At the end of this year, the United States will …
It came to me as if in inspiration. Herman Cain told his less fortunate fellow Americans that if in the midst of this recession they didn’t have a job, it was their own fault. Newt Gingrich reinforced the message by telling the OWS crowd to take a bath and get …
It seems that the Wall Street Journal, or Arthur C. Brooks, in any case, agree on rising income inequality in America. David Brooks, in The Spirit of Enterprise, quotes Arthur C. Brooks and Fairness and the ‘Occupy’ movement, who quotes Jim Pethokoukis and Study: Income inequality in America is overstated, who quotes a …
David Brooks, in his column The Spirit of Enterprise, attributes the wealth of nations like Germany and the US to their habits, values and social capital. “It’s because many people in these countries…believe in a simple moral formula: effort should lead to reward as often as possible.” One reader writing in …
It seems like Robert Reich is channeling George Lakoff. In a recent article, The Rebirth of Social Darwinism, Reich describes the Republicans as harkening back to the social Darwinism of the late 1800’s. What’s striking is the language he uses, and the language he quotes. “To [William Graham] Sumner [professor of …
After an election in which their side won, the titans of industry and small businessmen assembled to lay down some new rules. There were 100,000 individuals represented in the new convention, and they decided that since they deserved to keep more of what they earned and contributed to the society, …
I was reading a recent article by Phil Kerpen entitled ‘Occupy’ Movement Is Not What Democracy Looks Like. In the article Mr. Kerpen makes two major points. One is that democracy means free elections and culminates in representative democracy; the other is that the OWS movement is undemocratic, that it is about …
In his book Moral Politics, George Lakoff presents a short description of Work as viewed from the conservative and the liberal frames of reference. His description reads like a manifesto comparing the Tea Party with OWS. In the book he describes the conservative view of work as Work Reward metaphor as …
I was reading a recent post by David Harsanyi on You Want More Equality? Support More Capitalism. He makes a couple of points. When discussing the explosion of news on income inequality, he asks, “Who cares?” The wealthy don’t get wealthy at the expense of the poor. In fact, he notes, …
I posted some numbers about a week ago on taxes, income, and wealth, and I’d like to follow up with the questions asked in the title, “Are the rich taxed too much or too little?” If we look at Federal Income Taxes, the top 1% of income earners pay a …
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