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    Taxapalooza!

    December 18, 2017

    If anyone needed any further evidence as to the endemic corruption of American politics the Republican tax plan is surely the clincher. Think about it: this is a vastly unpopular plan with the voting public. The Republicans are taking an enormous electoral gamble with it. The plan is even less popular than some tax increases […]

    Politics / capitalism, centrists, David Brooks, democracy, plutocracy, Reagan, Republicans /

    Consistency is the …

    December 12, 2017

    Well, at least I am being consistent. Whether that’s being a good thing or not I will leave to you to figure out. David Brooks set me off on a rant a few days ago, and he’s doing it again. I have to stop reading his columns. Last time it was about the rotting Republican […]

    Politics / capitalism, deficits, plutocracy, Reagan, Republicans, Say's Law, Trump /

    Republican Rot?

    December 8, 2017

    This is going to sound parochial to those of you not steeped in America’s current internal conversation. Poor David Brooks, his column in today’s New York Times is entitled “The G.O.P. Is Rotting”. He is correct. His column is a long lament about his sense of loss. The problem is that the thing[s] he thinks […]

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