Privileging the Income of the Privileged
The Trump tax plan reserves its highest rates for the income people actually labor to earn — and extends lavish preferential treatment to income from wealth. Four years ago, my...
Bob Lord
A Piketty ‘Inflection Point’ Heads Up
The concentration of America’s wealth may be reaching a point where any further gains for the top 1 percent must literally come at the direct expense of everyone else. The...
How Do We Best ‘Save the Poor’?
The data is in: Shared growth, not top-heavy growth, helps the poor. Two months ago, in Equality for Taxi Drivers and Surgeons, I challenged the logic of Illinois professor Deirdre...
Equality for Taxi Drivers and Surgeons?
Those who defend extreme inequality by arguing against complete equality are doing their best to divert our attention from the questions that matter. By Bob Lord It never fails. Every...