Making the pie higher
According to a new Congressional Budget Office report, the “increase in incomes of the top 1 percent of Americans from 2003 to 2005 exceeded the total income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans”. Please note that’s just the increase in income for the top 1/100 vs. the total income of the [...]

Bush League Accounting
“A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money”, Senator Everett M. Dirksen is supposed to have said. If a few billions are real money, then what’s a few trillion? Nothing to worry about, according to White House Press Secretary Dana Perino.