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Why taxing the rich & corporations is not the only step we need to take – reversing the top-down class warfare

September 24, 2025 Mark Orton 0

Many on the left are calling for increasing taxes on the rich and corporations to fund the government while reducing the burden on most Americans. […]

Abundance by Klein and Thompson – a book review

September 22, 2025 Mark Orton 0

I read Abundance as part of my participation in the Hudson Area Library’s Nonfiction Book Group. Abundance offers many telling comments about our situation. In […]

A call to my fellow veterans to stand up to Trump deployments

September 16, 2025 Mark Orton 0

This is an opinion piece by my brother Ed Orton. It appeared in the Seattle Times on 9.12.2025   By Edward Orton Special to The […]

Conservatives are all about big government

September 13, 2025 Mark Orton 0

socialism by and for the rich and corporations Conservative ideology calls for as little government as possible and celebrates the miracle of the efficiencies of […]

David Brooks on nurturing human capital in poor people

September 5, 2025 Mark Orton 0

What might he say about our billionaire class “As a society, we are pretty good at transferring money to the poor, but we’re not very […]

Workers Over Billionaires Demonstration – a visual report from Palm Beach Gardens, FL 9.1.2025

September 2, 2025 Mark Orton 0

About a thousand people lined both sides of PGA Blvd near the Palm Beach County North County Courthouse on Labor Day. Lots of signs, cars […]

Our minds evolved to survive, not to see the truth.

August 24, 2025 Mark Orton 0

beginning to understand Trump and his billionaires….. I’ve been puzzling for several years now to explain why 74 million Americans voted for Trump in 2024. […]

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Wealth Inequality in the US

July 11, 2025 theheist 0

a fifty-year view. One of the central perspectives of my forthcoming book The Heist: how the rich and corporations stole the American dream and how […]

David Brooks misses the long view

May 25, 2025 theheist 0

“Can We Please Stop Lying About Obama?” The indefatigable conservative columnist for the NY Times, David Brooks, has authored a strange and flawed essay, “Can […]

A “Decent” Federal Budget?

May 25, 2025 theheist 0

Paul Krugman, “What a Decent Budget Would Look Like” Paul Krugman’s recent post, “What a Decent Budget Would Look Like – Imagining a Congress that […]

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