Category Archives: Income Inequality
A Reminder About Who Pays US Income Taxes
I’ve said many times after the November 2016 elections that the only thing I wanted in 2017 from Trump and the Republican majority in the House and Senate was significant tax cuts. I would prefer a radical change to our … Continue reading
What Does The Left Consider A Fair Share?
As tax day looms in the US, the Wall-Street Journal has this great piece about how much of the US income tax burden is shouldered by the rich. Here are the two charts from the WSJ story and they used … Continue reading
Real Income Inequality Solutions
If you watched Obama’s State of the Union speech (I didn’t) then you know he spent a lot of time talking about Income Inequality. If you think this is just a short term talking point then you haven’t been paying … Continue reading
War On Poverty Update
There seems to be a rallying cry of the Left this year to push the class warfare, income inequality memes and they are now claiming a renewed interest in the War on Poverty. Before we listen to the Elizabeth Warrens … Continue reading
This Is Newsworthy To NPR
It’s either a slow news day or NPR is trying to push the Elizabeth Warren ‘class warfare, wealth redistribution, Income Inequality’ talking points. NPR just ran an honest to goodness story (it’s on their website and everything) that is about … Continue reading
The Inequality That Obama Forgot To Mention
In an attempt to avert attention away from his Obamacare fiasco, The One gave a speech today where he trotted out the Left’s favorite meme du jour – Income Inequality. We all know that this meme is really just a … Continue reading
Using BLS Data To Test The Income Inequality Theory
One of the favorite memes of the Left is Income Inequality. They tell us that over the recent years the wealthy, the top 10%, have seen their salaries increase by a greater margin than the poor, the bottom 10%. But … Continue reading
Income Inequality Links
If you watched the Community Organizer in Chief give his State of the Union speech then you know what we are going to hear from the President for the next 10 months – Income Inequality and everyone paying their fair … Continue reading
Income Inequality
If you are not familiar with these two words then you haven’t been watching the news the past 2 months or paid attention to the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) demonstrations. There is a new report from the Congressional Budget Office … Continue reading