Paul Buchheit
Paul Buchheit is an advocate for social and economic justice, and the author of numerous papers on economic inequality and cognitive science. He was recently named one of 300 Living Peace and Justice Leaders and Models. He is the author of "Disposable Americans: Extreme Capitalism and the Case for a Guaranteed Income" (2017). Contact email: paul (at) youdeservefacts.org.
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Views Monday, May 13, 2019 3 Dark and Disturbing Reasons Why Trump Could Win Again It seems absurd to believe that America could make the same mistake again, to elect an ignorant and vulgar narcissist to the most powerful position in the world. But we can't underestimate the ability of the self-serving super-rich to convince millions of Americans that a surging stock market and a... Read more |
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Views Monday, March 11, 2019 The Big Cheat of 2018: Corporations Make Billions in Profits, Demand Tax Refunds from the American Public Many of our country's largest corporations make billions of dollars in income, use deferrals and write-offs and credits to underpay their current tax bills by staggering amounts, and in some cases claim foreign profits and U.S. losses despite having much of their sales and assets in the United... Read more |
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Views Monday, February 18, 2019 How a Failing Capitalist System Is Allowing Amazon to Cripple America Capitalism is failing in America, and Amazon is both the cause and beneficiary of much of the breakdown. Jeff Bezos said , "We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient." He might have... Read more |
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Views Monday, February 04, 2019 Three Reasons Why the Super-Rich Should Embrace a 70% Tax Rate Senator Lindsey Graham once said , "It's really American to avoid paying taxes...It's a game we play." There are many good reasons why Americans should be paying those taxes, and why there should be even higher taxes on the richest individuals and corporations. Of course, these arguments have... Read more |
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Views Monday, January 21, 2019 Capitalist-Style Wealth Gap: 1 Tech Guy = 1,000,000 Teachers As of 01/20/19, the richest six American tech leaders (Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg, Ellison, Page, Brin) averaged over $80 billion in net worth. Meanwhile, the 25 million Americans just above the median, many of them teachers , have an average net worth of $78 thousand . That's a difference of a... Read more |
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Views Monday, January 07, 2019 By the Best Definition, the Poverty Rate Should Be Tripled Poverty should not be defined simply by the number of dollars that an American can scrape together each year. But poverty deniers won't look deeper, because they don't want to admit that anyone willing to work could be suffering in the richest country in the world. It's easier to blame the poverty-... Read more |
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Views Monday, December 10, 2018 The Inequality to Be Suffered by Our Children The Inequality to be Suffered by Our Children The fortunate ones will not be suffering. In the past eight years, the richest 5% of Americans have increased their wealth by $30 trillion -- almost a third of total U.S. wealth -- while the poorest 50% have seen their average wealth drop from $11,500... Read more |
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Views Monday, November 26, 2018 Facts That Privileged Americans Don't Want Us to Know Many of us are ill-informed about certain critical economic and social issues. The following facts should have been reported by the mainstream media, but unfortunately most of that media is controlled by the very people who have reason to hide the facts. Tax Haven Cheating is Much Costlier than the... Read more |
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Views Monday, November 05, 2018 The Evidence Pours In: Poverty Getting Much Worse in America A White House report recently proclaimed that the "War on Poverty is largely over and a success." United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley said it was "ridiculous for the United Nations to examine poverty in America." Well-positioned Americans must talk like this, of course, because admitting the... Read more |
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Views Monday, October 22, 2018 An Arena Full of the Richest Americans Would Own as Much Wealth as 70% of the World That's 25,000 American adults, about the number of people in a large basketball stadium . That's the richest .01% of America. Together they own nearly $10 trillion , which is approximately the total wealth owned by the 3.5 billion adults who make up 70% of the entire adult world. Data is taken from... Read more |