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Henry George's Ahead-Of-Its-Time 1879 Suggestion That We Tax Wealth, Not Work— Part II
OK, back to Henry George’s once-revolutionary idea of taxing wealth— in the form of land when he wrote the best-selling Progress and...

Howie Klein
May 296 min read
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The Barbarians Aren’t At The Gates… We Already Allowed Them To Take Possession Of The Gates
Part One Of Today’s Two Henry George-Related Posts They're agile, they're mobile & they're elusive. They're stateless, they're disruptive...

Howie Klein
May 2912 min read
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The Alarming Growth Of Extreme Wealth & The Enabling Political Influence It Affords The Ultra-Rich
Billionaires Should Not Exist Last week, Erica Payne noted that “on March 18, 2020, there were 614 billionaires in the U.S. Just four...

Howie Klein
Oct 7, 20245 min read
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Mankind's Greatest Thinkers Have Always Inveighed Against Our Tendency To Slide Into Plutocracy
Let's Take A Look— From Plato To Tolstoy To Chomsky Let’s go back to high school for a minute. When we read War and Peace — in my case—...

Howie Klein
Sep 30, 20249 min read
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Should Billionaires Be Taxed Out Of Existence? Are You Willing To Vote For Candidates Who Agree?
Democracy Doesn't Function With Billionaires Several of the committees I serve on interviews candidates. And one is exclusively focused...

Howie Klein
Sep 23, 20244 min read
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America Missed Out So, So Bad By Not Electing Bernie President
The Democratic Party’s Job Must Be The Economic Struggle My friends in Europe all say ‘who the hell is Kamala Harris— what about Bernie,...

Howie Klein
Jul 20, 202410 min read
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America's 813 Billionaires Must Have Been Extremely Happy With The Biden Administration Yesterday
The Wall Street Journal has a headline yesterday that probably pissed off a lot of Democrat: A Global Tax on Billionaires? Janet Yellen...

Howie Klein
May 21, 20247 min read
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Howie Klein
Apr 28, 202418 min read
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Musk Wants To Round Up, Deport Immigrants— I Can Think Of One Case Where That Would Be Awesome
Musk Is A Walking, Talking Advertisement For A Wealth Tax During the now infamous March 8th interview with Don Lemon, Elon Musk claimed...

Howie Klein
Mar 20, 20243 min read
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Billionaires Shouldn't Exist And There's A Nice Clean Way To Accomplish That; Fair Taxation
The Alternative Is Not Something Anyone Wants The billionaires had their panties all in a bunch Friday. Biden was so mean to them during...

Howie Klein
Mar 9, 20249 min read
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How Should An Equitable Society Deal With People Who Insist On Having Private Jets?
When I worked as a TimeWarner division head (president of Reprise Records) I had a corporate jet at my disposal. I could have my...

Howie Klein
Feb 23, 202410 min read
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"Everybody" Agrees: Tax The Rich... Except The Rich, Who Don't Even Agree That They Are Rich
The Rich Have The Financial Means To Buy Political Power There are a lot of things that Barbara Lee (D-CA), Summer Lee (D-PA), Rashida...

Howie Klein
Feb 1, 20246 min read
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Can We All Just Agree That No One Should Be Killed Just Because They're A Billionaire?
Not even anyone I know wants to drag billionaires to guillotines just because they’re billionaires. Not even Elon Musk. There are however...

Howie Klein
Sep 5, 20235 min read
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Barbara Lee Introduced A Solid American Wealth Tax That Makes Sense
Extreme Wealth Inequality Isn't Compatible With A Healthy Democracy I usually like Elizabeth Warren’s ideas but when she brought up an...

Howie Klein
Sep 1, 202311 min read
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Extreme Wealth Accumulation Is A Serious Problem And Should Be Dealt With In A Serious Manner
According to this month’s Forbes, the 10 richest people in the world are all multi-billionaires. But none of them are the richest in...

Howie Klein
Apr 11, 20236 min read
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Another Kind Of Progressive Wealth Tax: Taxing Land
Americans would love to not pay taxes. Have you noticed? A couple of weeks ago Columbia University research scholar Polly Cleveland,...

Howie Klein
Feb 7, 20226 min read
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Any Blue Will Do? If You Ever Considered That, You Need To Read This
Looks like Pelosi fell right into the transparent trap the Republican wing of the Democratic Party set up. Manchin and Sinema got...

Howie Klein
Sep 22, 20217 min read
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America's Hereditary Plutocracy
If you don't follow the news cycle too closely, you might think the news narrative around the blockbuster report by ProPublica revealing...

Howie Klein
Jun 9, 20216 min read
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McConnell Threatens To Harm The American People If The Dems Pass Their Agenda
As you can see from the Twitter poll (and you can still vote in it here, by the way), DWT followers are too smart to go for all that Matt...

Howie Klein
Apr 2, 20213 min read
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Making Taxes Fairer For America By Taxing The Very Rich
One of my friends working in middle management for a big corporation has not just gotten very wealthy, he's also collected millions of...

Howie Klein
Mar 15, 20213 min read
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