The Alarming Growth Of Extreme Wealth & The Enabling Political Influence It Affords The Ultra-Rich
Billionaires Should Not Exist Last week, Erica Payne noted that “on March 18, 2020, there were 614 billionaires in the U.S. Just four...
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Howie Klein
Sep 309 min read
Mankind's Greatest Thinkers Have Always Inveighed Against Our Tendency To Slide Into Plutocracy
Let's Take A Look— From Plato To Tolstoy To Chomsky Let’s go back to high school for a minute. When we read War and Peace — in my case—...
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Howie Klein
Sep 234 min read
Should Billionaires Be Taxed Out Of Existence? Are You Willing To Vote For Candidates Who Agree?
Democracy Doesn't Function With Billionaires Several of the committees I serve on interviews candidates. And one is exclusively focused...
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Howie Klein
Jul 2010 min read
America Missed Out So, So Bad By Not Electing Bernie President
The Democratic Party’s Job Must Be The Economic Struggle My friends in Europe all say ‘who the hell is Kamala Harris— what about Bernie,...
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Howie Klein
May 217 min read
America's 813 Billionaires Must Have Been Extremely Happy With The Biden Administration Yesterday
The Wall Street Journal has a headline yesterday that probably pissed off a lot of Democrat: A Global Tax on Billionaires? Janet Yellen...
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Howie Klein
Apr 2818 min read
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Howie Klein
Mar 203 min read
Musk Wants To Round Up, Deport Immigrants— I Can Think Of One Case Where That Would Be Awesome
Musk Is A Walking, Talking Advertisement For A Wealth Tax During the now infamous March 8th interview with Don Lemon, Elon Musk claimed...
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Howie Klein
Mar 99 min read
Billionaires Shouldn't Exist And There's A Nice Clean Way To Accomplish That; Fair Taxation
The Alternative Is Not Something Anyone Wants The billionaires had their panties all in a bunch Friday. Biden was so mean to them during...
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Howie Klein
Feb 2310 min read
How Should An Equitable Society Deal With People Who Insist On Having Private Jets?
When I worked as a TimeWarner division head (president of Reprise Records) I had a corporate jet at my disposal. I could have my...
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Howie Klein
Feb 16 min read
"Everybody" Agrees: Tax The Rich... Except The Rich, Who Don't Even Agree That They Are Rich
The Rich Have The Financial Means To Buy Political Power There are a lot of things that Barbara Lee (D-CA), Summer Lee (D-PA), Rashida...
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Howie Klein
Sep 5, 20235 min read
Can We All Just Agree That No One Should Be Killed Just Because They're A Billionaire?
Not even anyone I know wants to drag billionaires to guillotines just because they’re billionaires. Not even Elon Musk. There are however...
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Howie Klein
Sep 1, 202311 min read
Barbara Lee Introduced A Solid American Wealth Tax That Makes Sense
Extreme Wealth Inequality Isn't Compatible With A Healthy Democracy I usually like Elizabeth Warren’s ideas but when she brought up an...
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Howie Klein
Apr 11, 20236 min read
Extreme Wealth Accumulation Is A Serious Problem And Should Be Dealt With In A Serious Manner
According to this month’s Forbes, the 10 richest people in the world are all multi-billionaires. But none of them are the richest in...
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Howie Klein
Feb 7, 20226 min read
Another Kind Of Progressive Wealth Tax: Taxing Land
Americans would love to not pay taxes. Have you noticed? A couple of weeks ago Columbia University research scholar Polly Cleveland,...
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Howie Klein
Sep 22, 20217 min read
Any Blue Will Do? If You Ever Considered That, You Need To Read This
Looks like Pelosi fell right into the transparent trap the Republican wing of the Democratic Party set up. Manchin and Sinema got...
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Howie Klein
Jun 9, 20216 min read
America's Hereditary Plutocracy
If you don't follow the news cycle too closely, you might think the news narrative around the blockbuster report by ProPublica revealing...
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Howie Klein
Apr 2, 20213 min read
McConnell Threatens To Harm The American People If The Dems Pass Their Agenda
As you can see from the Twitter poll (and you can still vote in it here, by the way), DWT followers are too smart to go for all that Matt...
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Howie Klein
Mar 15, 20213 min read
Making Taxes Fairer For America By Taxing The Very Rich
One of my friends working in middle management for a big corporation has not just gotten very wealthy, he's also collected millions of...
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Howie Klein
Mar 3, 20213 min read
Living Through The Plague-- Money
For me and Roland, one of the best things about the pandemic is that we eat home-cooked meals everyday instead of going out to eat, as we...
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Howie Klein
Mar 1, 20217 min read
Do You Have $50 Million? If You Do, Congratulations... And Your Taxes May Go Up Ever So Slightly
This morning, Elizabeth Warren and Pramila Jayapal in the House unveiled a bicameral Ultra-Millionaire Tax bill, which features a 2%...
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