There is yet another article out by a reputable centrist group, Tax Policy that found Mitt Romney’s tax cuts would boost the after-tax income by an average of 4.1 percent for those earning over $1 million while having marginal effects on those below. This is not news. What is news is that neither the draconian […]

Many continue to believe that the Occupy Wall Street movement was just a movement in passing. While many in the middle class do not believe it was very successful, there is something that I know. The reason you see the inordinate amount of money in this election and the reason many in the wealthy class, […]

I was doing my daily scan of the news both at the Huffington Post, CNN.com, and NYTimes.com and came across a wonderful article that got me thinking. The title of the article is “Taiwan’s Progress on Health Care” by Uwe Reinhardt. It is an excellent read. It caught my eye because Fareed Zakaria wrote an […]

Many of those more liberally inclined justifiable accuse Fox News of misinformation and extreme bias. The Jon Stewart Comedy Central video below shows the extent of Fox News bias. Sadly it is a disservice to every American to concentrate on Fox News and not on all of mainstream media. It is true that Fox News […]

A few days ago Republican Senator Jon Kyle went on the Senate floor and complained that President Obama was pitting the middle class against the wealthiest class. The statement is categorically false. The reality is I wish the President would do that. I wish the President would finally verbalize today’s realization that we have been […]

The necessity of healthcare reform is real. While what we got was neither the single payer system nor Medicare for all that most of us that understand the economics and morality of healthcare insurance, it presented a good start. Going forward, we have codified some form of Universal Healthcare and the implicit acceptance that healthcare […]

Most Americans are not rich or even well off. No wealthy person in the world has made it on his/her own. Very few in the middle class really mind a society with a few super wealthy people. After all we all have different priorities. While some measure their worth by the amount of capital they […]

We must all express our most sincere condolences to those that were killed in Aurora Colorado. For most of us with young children that enjoy going to these events, the killings strike close to home. These types of events have occurred throughout the country. How many more mass murders do we need before we finally […]