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, July 13, 2020 Foreshadowing the Year 2021: Half of America Facing Poverty There is something perverse about an economic system in which the stock market keeps climbing while people are dying. And in which 20 individuals can own as much wealth as the entire bottom half of the population. For the great majority of Americans without a share of the stock market, and for... Read more |
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Views Monday, July 06, 2020 The Protests We Should Be Having to Make the Super-Rich Very Afraid 600 Americans , enough to fill a high school auditorium, own as much as a full 60% of Americans, or 200 million people. About half of the billionaire wealth has accumulated from passive stock market gains over the past ten years. Protests in the streets don't impact the people who have taken so... Read more |
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Views Monday, June 08, 2020 Four Numbers that Show America's Disdain for Its Most Vulnerable People Hundreds of thousands of Americans have suffered "deaths of despair" from alcohol and drug abuse and suicides because they could no longer provide for their families. Even before the COVID-19 crisis, during a post-recession period when the economy and stock market were booming, the poorest 50% of... Read more |
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Views Monday, April 27, 2020 No, We're Not All in This Together. How the Super-Rich Are Cheating America. Media outlets keep telling us that we're all together in this pandemic. But we're not. The super-rich have separated themselves from the rest of us, with concierge medicine, private travel accommodations, isolated but well-stocked resort homes, and a variety of other advantages that allow them to... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 03, 2020 Four Numbers That Scream 'Vote for Bernie!' By the numbers, Bernie Sanders is the 'centrist' candidate. The families all the way up to the very center of America have actually lost wealth since the recession. The families from the center to the 90th percentile have seen their share of national wealth drop dramatically. This 90% of America... Read more |
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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 |