The recent ProPublica article, “The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax”, by Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen and Paul Kiel, shows that the wealthiest US persons pay a true-tax rate of just around 3.5%. We can grumble about it, sure. As middling income or poor people, we pay…
I got news for you, Senator. $15 an hour doesn’t really do much for the workers of the United States
The current (soon to be ex-) WH occupant has signed a last-minute stimulus bill into law. What’s in it? Among other things, it has payments direct to people like the last one did in late March. People who got money the first time around will get money now. Yay? Not really. For most people the…
My hubby found this TED Talk a few days ago. He sent me the link, and it’s scared the piss out of me. If media companies can manipulate consumers at the micro level, what does this mean? Really mean? Oh, you might say, “But I have ad-blockers, and they keep companies from using such targeted…
Two years. Two years since I graduated college and nothing. No paying jobs. I’ve done everything I know how to do. Applied everywhere. Asked people about applying. Reached out to people and ‘networked’. Nothing. Zip. I know I am not the usual college graduate. At nearly 50 I am older. And I have worked before,…
