Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding.
From Timothy Noah
The embourgeoisement of China's proletariat may be the inevitable result of its industrialization, but 'inevitable' isn't the same as 'speedy.'
Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.
I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive.
You know what isn't class warfare? Progressive taxation, as in, say, expecting billionaires to pay at least as much in taxes as their secretaries. Ideally, in fact, they should pay more.
The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security is the Small Business Administration, a notorious turkey farm that should have been abolished years ago.
The argument most commonly made in the filibuster's favor is crudely partisan: 'Our side may be in the majority now, but someday it will be in the minority, and when that happens we'll want to block the other side's extremist agenda.'
If the Pentagon truly confined itself to providing defense, then presumably we wouldn't need a whole separate government agency to provide 'Homeland Security.'
For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch.
The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.
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