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- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most financiers, corporate lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants are competing with other financiers, lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants in zero-sum games that take money out of one set of pockets and put it into another.
- Nationality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Increasingly, corporate nationality is whatever a corporation decides it is.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of worrying about who's American and who's not, here's a better idea: Create incentives for any global company to do what we'd like it to do in the United States.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rather than subsidize 'American' exporters, it makes more sense to subsidize any global company - to the extent it's adding to its exports from the United States.
- Concentrated
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- Nov 07, 2020
As income from work has become more concentrated in America, the super rich have invested in businesses, real estate, art, and other assets. The income from these assets is now concentrating even faster than income from work.
- Permanent
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.
- Squirrel
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- Nov 07, 2020
One tax dodge often used by multi-national companies is to squirrel their earnings abroad in foreign subsidiaries located in countries where taxes are lower.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom is the one value conservatives place above all others, yet time and again, their ideal of freedom ignores the growing imbalance of power in our society that's eroding the freedoms of most people.
- Laws
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts.
- Deduction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tax laws favor capital over labor, giving capital gains a lower rate than ordinary income. The rich get humongous mortgage interest deductions while renters get no deduction at all.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bankruptcy laws allow companies to smoothly reorganize, but not college graduates burdened by student loans.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's true that redistributing income to the needy is politically easier in a growing economy than in a stagnant one.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Evidence suggests jobs are crucial not only to economic well-being but also to self-esteem.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, personal responsibility is important. But there's no evidence that people who are poor are less ambitious than anyone else. In fact, many work long hours at backbreaking jobs.
- Hacker
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- Nov 07, 2020
News and images move so easily across borders that attitudes and aspirations are no longer especially national. Cyber-weapons, no longer the exclusive province of national governments, can originate in a hacker's garage.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nations are becoming less relevant in a world where everyone and everything is interconnected. The connections that matter most are again becoming more personal.
- Evidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The generosity of the super-rich is sometimes proffered as evidence they're contributing as much to the nation's well-being as they did decades ago when they paid a much larger share of their earnings in taxes.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the rest of the Ivy League are worthy institutions, to be sure, but they're not known for educating large numbers of poor young people.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.
- Nov 07, 2020
Centrism is bogus.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't create a political movement out of pabulum.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.
- Democrats
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- Nov 07, 2020
The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.
- Better Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.
- Inflation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.
- Bush Administration
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.
- Burden
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- Nov 07, 2020
True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
We never used to blink at taking a leadership role in the world. And we understood leadership often required something other than drones and bombs. We accepted global leadership not just for humanitarian reasons, but also because it was in our own best interest. We knew we couldn't isolate ourselves from trouble. There was no place to hide.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
More people are killed by stray bullets every day in America than have been killed by Ebola here. More are dying because of poverty and hunger.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
Media outlets that are exploiting Ebola because they want a sensational story and politicians using it to their own ends ought to be ashamed.
- Played
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- Nov 07, 2020
Public fear isn't something to be played with.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
America spends a fortune on drugs: more per person than any other nation on earth, even though Americans are no healthier than the citizens of other advanced nations.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drug company payments to doctors are a small part of a much larger strategy by Big Pharma to clean our pockets.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is one of few advanced nations that allow direct advertising of prescription drugs.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatives believe the economy functions better if the rich have more money and everyone else has less. But they're wrong. It's just the opposite.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.
- Bets
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America, people with lots of money can easily avoid the consequences of bad bets and big losses by cashing out at the first sign of trouble.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economies are risky. Some industries rise, and others implode, like housing. Some places get richer, and others drop, like Atlantic City. Some people get new jobs that pay better, many lose their jobs or their wages.
- Donald Trump
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- Nov 07, 2020
Average working people need more fresh starts. Big corporations, banks, and Donald Trump need fewer.
- Chronic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sugary drinks are blamed for increasing the rates of chronic disease and obesity in America. Yet efforts to reduce their consumption through taxes or other measures have gone nowhere. The beverage industry has spent millions defeating them.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Detroit is really a model for how wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they'd otherwise share with poorer and darker Americans.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Official boundaries are often hard to see. If you head north on Woodward Avenue, away from downtown Detroit, you wouldn't know exactly when you left the city and crossed over into Oakland County - except for a small sign that tells you.
- Nov 07, 2020
Too many young people graduate laden with debts that take years, if not decades, to pay off.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technology is changing so fast that knowledge about specifics can quickly become obsolete. That's why so much of what technicians learn is on the job.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle class.
- Income
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we segregate by income into different communities, schools in lower-income areas have fewer resources than ever.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes.
- Materials
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political scientists after World War II hypothesized that even though the voices of individual Americans counted for little, most people belonged to a variety of interest groups and membership organizations - clubs, associations, political parties, unions - to which politicians were responsive.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only way back toward a democracy and economy that work for the majority is for most of us to get politically active once again, becoming organized and mobilized.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The monied interests are doing what they do best - making money. The rest of us need to do what we can do best - use our voices, our vigor, and our votes.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020