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Who Will Stand Up to the Superrich? - NYTimes.com
Topic: Miscellaneous 7:25 am EST, Nov 15, 2010

This rant takes a few weak swings but there are also many damning blows.

The bigger issue is whether the country can afford the systemic damage being done by the ever-growing income inequality between the wealthiest Americans and everyone else, whether poor, middle class or even rich...

Inequality is instead the result of specific policies, including tax policies, championed by Washington Democrats and Republicans alike as they conducted a bidding war for high-rolling donors in election after election....

Those in the higher reaches aren’t investing in creating new jobs even now, when the full Bush tax cuts remain in effect, so why would extending them change that equation?

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Who Will Stand Up to the Superrich? - NYTimes.com



 
 
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