Political Economy category archive
By the Numbers . . . 0
Thom asks, “Is this the America you wanted?”
Twits on Twitter, Ryan’s Derp Dept. 0
Farron skewers Paul Ryan’s efforts to promote trickle-on economics.
Puerto Rico, the Plundering 0
Warning: Language.
(Video embed fixed. I had assistance from the cat while I prepared the initial post. She’s a nice cat, but she knows nothing about HTML5.)
Taxing Thoughts 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Peter Ubel explores why people hate taxes, despite that fact that, as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., once pointed out, taxes buy civilization.
What he finds is not what you might expect.
The Art of the Con 0
In The Sacramento Bee, Hedrick Smith points out that the Republican con long predates the antics of Donald Trump. A snippet (emphasis added):
Matched against history, that’s a hollow claim bordering on economic fake news. Factually, it flies in the face of the performance over the past 40 years of American business, which has generated what Citibank called the greatest inequality of income in any major nation since 16th century Spain – that is, over the past 500 years.
The Empty “Wars” of Empty Souls 0
At The Bangor Daily News, Lance Dotson skewers the duplicity of our endless metaphorical domestic “wars” on this, that, and the other thing. A snippet:
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This is why it is so disheartening to see the malice toward the underclasses that feeds so much of our political discourse in Maine in the age of Gov. Paul LePage.
LePage, and his welfare protege Mary Mayhew, have adopted the foolish and cruel position that poverty and crime can be eliminated by tightening the clenched fist.
Follow the link for the rest.
“Show Me the Money” 0
Congressman Ralph Ellison explains that the numbers don’t lie.
Worst Aid Kit 0
Jared Bernstein, writing at Philly.com, struggles to understand why the Republican Party, with control of the legislative and executive branches of the federal government, has been so far unable to accomplish their most vocally-stated goal: repeal of the Affordable Care Act. He warns that his speculation is just that, speculation, but it is a thoughtful piece and worth the few minutes of your time reading it requires.
Here’s a bit:
There may still be enough representativeness left in our democracy to block such venal efforts. But then again, there may not. Stay tuned.
An Economic Perrytale 0
Rick Perry rewrites the law of supply and demand.
We are doomed.
