Salvatore Babones: Inequality and Growth
The inequality and growth debate is a red herring. It just doesn’t matter. The problem is inequality, and its solution is simple.
Tag Archives: inequality
Polly Cleveland: Grover Norquist Is Right to Oppose Internet Sales Taxes
Sales taxes — of whatever stripe — fall harder on poorer than richer customers. And they squeeze smaller retailers more than big ones.
Salvatore Babones: Why Are Luxury Car Sales Growing at Record Rates — In a Recession?
How can sales of super-luxury cars grow at super-fast rates during a recession? The answer is simple: it’s not a recession for everyone.
Salvatore Babones: Inequality, Greed, and the Demise of our Better Natures
Greed is not good, and high inequality is making all of us greedier than we should, or could, be.
Salvatore Babones: Government Exists to Serve the People, not the Privileged
Call it vote-buying if you want, but when a government effectively buys the votes of 80 or 90 percent of the population, I call that government of the people, by the people, for the people.
Salvatore Babones: How Inequality Corrupts Society
The corrupting influence of inequality isn’t confined to politics. It is everywhere.
Salvatore Babones: How Inequality Is Killing the Dinosaurs
Rising inequality is killing the dinosaurs – or at least what’s left of them.
Salvatore Babones: The Problem Isn’t Growth; the Problem Is Inequality
How can things be so much worse now when the economy is essentially in the same place it was five or six years ago? The answer in two words is: Rising inequality.
Salvatore Babones: Want to help small businesses? Bring on Taxmageddon
Contrary to public perceptions, low-tax America has among the lowest rates of entrepreneurship in the world. Taxmaggedon would help most small businesses and begin to restore a sane level of taxation on America’s wealthy.
Salvatore Babones: HOT lanes make my blood boil: Fast tracks for the rich on the rise
The reality is that High Occupancy Toll (HOT) lanes are exclusive – by design. If the so-called “Lexus Lanes” weren’t exclusive, they wouldn’t be hot.