Lower taxes on the ultra-wealthy, leading to a greater budget deficit, that then leads to the ultra-wealthy to buying government treasuries wherere the wealthy are guaranteed a percentage profit on the money they no longer pay in taxes. You can’t make this stuff up, it’s stranger than fiction how dumb middle-class Republicans support the very …
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Middle-class: work harder to make your favorite billionaire happier. It’s the new American Dream. Remember, the more they have, the more they need. “Greed is Good.” My fellow middle-class Americans: When you pay you taxes and billionaires don’t, which would you rather support? Science and education, or getting one guy a bigger yacht? You needn’t …
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Many people in the private enterprise system of the USA make lots of money by doing nothing productive, just by shuffling money around. It’s called financialization, and these wealthy financiers (egregious examples: Elchonon “Elie” Schwartz, Steven Hoffenberg (with Jeffrey Epstein), Scott W. Rothstein, Gilbert Chikli,Simon Leviev, Moshe Leichner, David Gentile and Jeffry Schneider, Carl Ruderman, …
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Tariffs are a consumption tax on the middle calls and don’t bring jobs. Tariffs make the rich even richer at the expense of the middle class. As history in many countries, including the USA, Germany, and China teaches us, government funding of education and innovation bring jobs. In his address to Congress, Trump said the …
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Capitalism’s Golden Age was between 1945 to 1980 in the USA, started by FDR and ended by Reagan. The short period was an outlier for capitalism, when a socialist-capitalist hybrid structure brought prosperity to most, a huge middle class, and great technological innovations. Since 1980, the USA has been contracting gradually, but with Trump 1 …
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Like his Cybertruck, Robotaxi, Tesla Semi, Tesla Roadster, Solar Panels, Hyperloop, Exploding Starships, Boring Company, Musk’s genius spending bill idea crashed and burned. Now he’s doing a media blitz so as not to be blamed, including by Trump. Elon Musk, who didn’t found Tesla, but stole it from the founders, and co-founded SpaceX but didn’t …
A bureaucracy is a system of organization that uses rules and procedures to coordinate the work of many people to accomplish large-scale tasks. Bureaucracies are often characterized by: When oversight of the bureaucracy by the people is in place, the system works well. But put the wealthy in charge of the bureaucracy, then only the wealthy benefit. …
Witnessing the end of empire. The USA had a good ride from the 1930s until the 1980s, while the last 40 years has seen the beginnings of the end of empire. We are now in the acute phase of decline, and becoming what Britain became, a beligerent plutocracy that is a hollowed-out shell of its …
Florida has an economy built on rebuilding from hurricances and floods, fraud of all kinds, retirees, and tourism. Led by a corrupt governor, it’s a deregulated mess and falling down, fast. Conservative media that ballyhooed Miami as “Silicon Valley South” is media hype as the one and only large VC firm with offices in Miami …
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Stem Cells, Health, Technology 