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American Oligarchs

I read in Salon today that Sylvia Allegretto, at UC Berkeley, has done a calculation showing that six members of the Walton clan, heirs of Sam Walton, WalMart’s founding father, have a combined wealth of $69.7 billion. They worked hard to get that inheritance. They are job creators because of all that hard work. They […]

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Unsound Bites

It’s been a long day. So at first I thought I must have misunderstood the meaning of today’s Republican prevention of action on unemployment. I didn’t. And that’s sad because it was stupid. Here’s the unsound bite: The GOP is trapped. The payroll tax cut introduced a while back is up for renewal. In general […]

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