Sam Pizzigati
Sam Pizzigati edits Too Much, the Institute for Policy Study's online weekly newsletter on excess and inequality.
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Views Tuesday, August 14, 2012 The 64-Gazillion-Dollar Question Peter Edelman has battled poverty for nearly half a century — first as a top aide to Senator Robert Kennedy, later as a state and federal official, and currently as a key figure at a widely respected law and public policy center in Washington. Read more |
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Views Sunday, July 22, 2012 Mitt’s Offshore Shenanigans: The Bigger Story Are America’s rich getting richer? They’re certainly making much more than ever before. Every official income measure we have shows that America’s most affluent are upping their incomes at a much faster clip than everyone else. Read more |
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Views Monday, June 25, 2012 Founders Would Be Unamused by Tea Party's 'No Taxes' Schtick Not too long ago, Americans only dressed up in George Washington wigs and tri-corner hats on the Fourth of July. But then the tea party came along. Colonial garb started turning up at rallies all year around. In quick order, the legacy of 1776 started "belonging" to the tea party crowd. The Founding Fathers, the tea partisans claimed, wouldn't abide government interference in their lives. And neither should we. If we today just stayed true to 1776, the United States would remain forever "exceptional." Read more |
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Views Monday, May 21, 2012 Facebook and Tahrir Square, Revisited Remember the heady days of the Arab spring? People in motion. Democracy breaking out all over. And right in the middle of everything... Facebook! Read more |
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Views Monday, May 14, 2012 No Country for Rich Men Back in 1863, a short story took the American reading public by storm. Edward Everett Hale's The Man without a Country told the tale of a poor treasonous soul sentenced to spend the rest of his life endlessly sailing the world in perpetual exile, as a prisoner aboard Navy warships. Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 03, 2012 A Rich Man's Message to America: You Need Us To Get Even Richer! How can you tell a really smart rich guy from a really silly one? The really smart one would never spend four years writing a book that tries to justify the incredible riches of incredibly rich people. Mega-millionaire Edward Conard has done just that. Read more |
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Views Monday, April 16, 2012 Pothole Nation Investing in infrastructure used to be a political no-brainer. Politicians of nearly every ideological stripe supported government spending on everything from school buildings to bridges. Read more |
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Views Monday, December 12, 2011 Presenting America’s Ten Greediest of 2011 The greediest among us in 2011 probably haven’t been any greedier, as a gang, than any greedy of the recent past. They just seem that way. Why so? We have a whole new frame of reference. This fall’s sudden — and exhilarating — rise of the Occupy movement has helped us remember what we, as a society, had sadly forgotten: that decent, smart societies never let the few grab away rewards that ought to be shared among the many. Read more |
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Views Friday, December 09, 2011 Tis the Season to Be Jolly on Wall Street, Still Financial industry insiders are grousing about a big downturn in annual bonuses. They should be thanking the rest of us - bombshell new research shows - for their continuing awesome good tidings. Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 08, 2011 For the Corporate 1 Percenters, a 50 Percent Tax Discount Over a quarter century ago, in 1984, the Washington, D.C.-based Citizens for Tax Justice released its first in-depth report on how much America's top profitable corporations were actually paying in taxes. America's top companies, this initial study found, were paying only 14.1 percent of their profits in taxes, less than a third of the corporate tax rate then in effect. Read more |