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		<title>Taxes on the rich: the rich really are taxed less (Part 4)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing from part 3, on why the rich are taxed less than everyone else. // 6. Corporations and businesses The largest business firms in America are in a position to exploit countless loopholes and exemptions and deductions, as well as lobby for and legislate new ones, that small and medium-sized businesses will never be able [...]


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		<title>Taxes on the rich: the rich really are taxed less (Part 3)</title>
		<link>http://100treatises.com/2011/09/taxes-on-the-rich-the-rich-really-are-taxed-less-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing from Part 2, reasons why the rich are taxed less than everyone else in America. // 5. The rich spend less and save more It is a very common observation in economics that people with greater incomes tend to save more of their money. This is true not just in absolute terms, but in [...]


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		<title>Taxes on the rich: The rich really are taxed less (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://100treatises.com/2011/09/taxes-on-the-rich-the-rich-really-are-taxed-less-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[// Continuing from Part 1, reasons why the rich are taxed less than everyone else in America. 3. The rich enjoy outsize influence over the government The wealthiest Americans enjoy significant influence over the political and legislative process. They are able to nudge policy in this or that direction through their campaign donations, influence peddling [...]


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		<title>Taxes on the rich: The rich really are taxed less (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://100treatises.com/2011/09/taxes-on-the-rich-the-rich-really-are-taxed-less-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the surface, it may seem that the rich in America pay more in taxes than the middle class or poor. And technically, this is true. The tax code applies higher marginal income tax rates the further up on the income scale one gets. But this is only half the story. There are several key [...]


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		<title>China, the US and the End of the American Era</title>
		<link>http://100treatises.com/2011/04/china-the-us-and-the-end-of-the-american-era/</link>
		<comments>http://100treatises.com/2011/04/china-the-us-and-the-end-of-the-american-era/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[// The IMF recently made a prediction that the Chinese economy, in total size, will be larger than America&#8217;s in a matter of years. In fact, the shift is so close that &#8220;According to the IMF forecast&#8230; whoever is elected U.S. president next year — Obama? Mitt Romney? Donald Trump? — will be the last [...]


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		<title>Why the Goldman Sachs Fraud Case Doesn&#8217;t Matter</title>
		<link>http://100treatises.com/2010/04/why-the-goldman-sachs-fraud-case-doesnt-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[// It was bound to happen. Goldman Sachs was far too successful and prominent to avoid an investigation by regulators in the aftermath of massive financial crisis. And since nobody considers that the economic system itself might be to blame for the crisis, what better scapegoat is there? Surely, there&#8217;s nothing systemically flawed with the [...]


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		<title>Inequality in America, the Saga Continues</title>
		<link>http://100treatises.com/2010/04/inequality-in-america-the-saga-continues/</link>
		<comments>http://100treatises.com/2010/04/inequality-in-america-the-saga-continues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[// A recent piece on Business Insider displayed a slew of interesting charts detailing different aspects of the rise in inequality in the US in the recent decades. The state of American inequality is either a shocking revelation or a banal cliche, depending on your point of view. All of the stats displayed were interesting, [...]


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		<title>The Socialist Sandwich</title>
		<link>http://100treatises.com/2010/02/the-socialist-sandwich/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[// One of the most brilliant characterizations I have yet heard of the American economic system was given by Stephen Bannon (director of the recent documentary &#8220;Generation Zero&#8221;), on Sean Hannity&#8217;s show: &#8220;we have socialism for the very poor, and we have socialism for the wealthy; we have capitalism for the middle class.&#8221; It is [...]


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		<title>Obama Starts to Get It</title>
		<link>http://100treatises.com/2010/01/obama-starts-to-get-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[// President Obama recently announced new banking and financial reforms that indicate that while he clearly still doesn&#8217;t quite grasp the underlying economic and financial structures that fostered the crisis, he&#8217;s getting there. The Economist reports: Though not a full return to Glass-Steagall, the law that separated commercial banking and investment banking in the wake [...]


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		<title>A Tragedy Within a Tragedy</title>
		<link>http://100treatises.com/2010/01/a-tragedy-within-a-tragedy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[// In light of the ongoing recovery efforts in Haiti, David Brooks offers several observations regarding Haitian development as well as development in general. I certainly don&#8217;t agree with all of his analysis, but he makes some important and thought-provoking points. One is that development aid, which has amounted to trillions of dollars over the past several [...]


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