The hollowing out of the middle class driven by the corporate class, aided by the Red Party. I bought the ‘trickle down economics’ line of BS for far too long. Thom, you and Robert Reich opened my eyes.
The hollowing out of the middle class driven by the corporate class, aided by the Red Party. I bought the ‘trickle down economics’ line of BS for far too long. Thom, you and Robert Reich opened my eyes.
As a Centrist - who sounds like a Progressive to Red Party Wingnuts - I'm the first to admit that there should be a balance between capital and labor. Trouble comes from the decades-long rout of labor by the corporatists who own the Red Party.
I was raised, and conditioned, until at least post-law school, by stringently authoritarian/Republican parents. At the same time, my mother's family had taken from them 2 1/2 acres (acres) at the crest of the hill next to Twin Peaks in San Francisco. Joe Alioto and insider developers saw the beautiful set-up of the "redevelopment" law, which was supposed to be for slum clearance, but, oh well.... I don't remember when the "revelation" came to me, that the rich and powerful actually were not better people than my grandfather: not harder-working, not more virtuous, and certainly not more honest. Sharing an anecdote of the reality of "trickle-up!" Book: "History of the Great American Fortunes," Gustavus Myers.
The hollowing out of the middle class driven by the corporate class, aided by the Red Party. I bought the ‘trickle down economics’ line of BS for far too long. Thom, you and Robert Reich opened my eyes.
Only a small percentage of the population knows trickle down and supply side economics was a failure. We need folks like you to explain.
At UM. they have an advanced tax course that lays it out. The course is designed for post doc law graduates. https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2023/10/legal-course-on-taylor-swifts-ip-empire.html Same stuff Thom discusses. I've been asking him to go viral, publish on Taylor Swift's Instagram page.
Robert Reich’s 14-part ‘Wealth & Poverty’ class, that he talk at Berkley, on YouTube. I took it during the Spring semester of ‘21, I believe it was.
It’s excellent.
As a Centrist - who sounds like a Progressive to Red Party Wingnuts - I'm the first to admit that there should be a balance between capital and labor. Trouble comes from the decades-long rout of labor by the corporatists who own the Red Party.
It's long-past time for a change. Vote Blue.
I was raised, and conditioned, until at least post-law school, by stringently authoritarian/Republican parents. At the same time, my mother's family had taken from them 2 1/2 acres (acres) at the crest of the hill next to Twin Peaks in San Francisco. Joe Alioto and insider developers saw the beautiful set-up of the "redevelopment" law, which was supposed to be for slum clearance, but, oh well.... I don't remember when the "revelation" came to me, that the rich and powerful actually were not better people than my grandfather: not harder-working, not more virtuous, and certainly not more honest. Sharing an anecdote of the reality of "trickle-up!" Book: "History of the Great American Fortunes," Gustavus Myers.