@azboblord.bsky.social
My post from 12 years ago was dead on.
Would have preferred to have been dead wrong.
inequality.org/article/tril...
Would have preferred to have been dead wrong.
inequality.org/article/tril...
Trillionaire Cometh, Democracy Goeth
With the arrival of our first trillionaire fast approaching, America’s democracy is hanging by a thread.
inequality.org
December 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
My post from 12 years ago was dead on.
Would have preferred to have been dead wrong.
inequality.org/article/tril...
Would have preferred to have been dead wrong.
inequality.org/article/tril...
The combined wealth of just two Americans now tops $1 TRILLION.
Tax the damned billionaires yet?
Tax the damned billionaires yet?
December 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The combined wealth of just two Americans now tops $1 TRILLION.
Tax the damned billionaires yet?
Tax the damned billionaires yet?
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1. Trump 1.0 was more corrupt than even Nixon.
2. Trump 2.0 is Trump 1.0, but to coin a phrase, ON STEROIDS.
3. Yet the challenge for Democrats is world weary cynicism that all politicians are the same.
Unforced errors like this reinforce 3 & are really bad for the party!
2. Trump 2.0 is Trump 1.0, but to coin a phrase, ON STEROIDS.
3. Yet the challenge for Democrats is world weary cynicism that all politicians are the same.
Unforced errors like this reinforce 3 & are really bad for the party!
"House Democrats on Thursday voted to return Rep. Henry Cuellar to his leadership role on the House Appropriations Committee following his presidential pardon on federal corruption charges."
JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.
JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.
Democrats Return Henry Cuellar to Powerful Spending Post After Trump Pardon
“We got ratified,” Cuellar told reporters after the vote.
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December 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
1. Trump 1.0 was more corrupt than even Nixon.
2. Trump 2.0 is Trump 1.0, but to coin a phrase, ON STEROIDS.
3. Yet the challenge for Democrats is world weary cynicism that all politicians are the same.
Unforced errors like this reinforce 3 & are really bad for the party!
2. Trump 2.0 is Trump 1.0, but to coin a phrase, ON STEROIDS.
3. Yet the challenge for Democrats is world weary cynicism that all politicians are the same.
Unforced errors like this reinforce 3 & are really bad for the party!
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Bold change often bubbles up from the states...
A just proposed 2026 California ballot initiative would levy a 5% tax on the state’s #billionaires and direct 90% of the returns to Californians on Medicaid and the institutions that serve them, with the rest going to K-12 schools. prospect.org/2025/10/23/u...
Unveiled Today: The First Politically Viable Wealth Tax - The American Prospect
A proposed 2026 California ballot measure would tax billionaires’ fortunes to fund imperiled health access for 15 million state Medicaid recipients. The spillover effects of its presence on the midter...
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October 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Bold change often bubbles up from the states...
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Finally, as a Palestinian-American, I sincerely hope that this is the first step on the long road to liberty for my people. I have faith — no, I know — that one day, our two peoples will look back and say this was a dark chapter in our shared history, as one.
October 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Finally, as a Palestinian-American, I sincerely hope that this is the first step on the long road to liberty for my people. I have faith — no, I know — that one day, our two peoples will look back and say this was a dark chapter in our shared history, as one.
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This is fucking appalling. It’s collective punishment, it’s incitement to genocide, and the US needs to stop funding it. I stand with the millions of Gazans under siege and the hundreds of thousands of Israelis protesting against the manmade horrors plaguing Gaza.
August 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This is fucking appalling. It’s collective punishment, it’s incitement to genocide, and the US needs to stop funding it. I stand with the millions of Gazans under siege and the hundreds of thousands of Israelis protesting against the manmade horrors plaguing Gaza.
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At least 70 people have already showed up to protest against ICE at the Broadview Detention Facility.
This is what showing up for your community looks like. Stand for your neighbors. Abolish ICE.
This is what showing up for your community looks like. Stand for your neighbors. Abolish ICE.
August 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
At least 70 people have already showed up to protest against ICE at the Broadview Detention Facility.
This is what showing up for your community looks like. Stand for your neighbors. Abolish ICE.
This is what showing up for your community looks like. Stand for your neighbors. Abolish ICE.
I’ll bet most people don’t know who Thomas Peterffy is, but out of every $2500 of American wealth, his share is $1. If you’re an average American, your share of that $2500 would be less than one-thousandth of a penny.
Tax the Damn Billionaires
Tax the Damn Billionaires
July 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I’ll bet most people don’t know who Thomas Peterffy is, but out of every $2500 of American wealth, his share is $1. If you’re an average American, your share of that $2500 would be less than one-thousandth of a penny.
Tax the Damn Billionaires
Tax the Damn Billionaires
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For the wealthy, the tax code removes all the risk. That means billionaires can sit on massive gains for decades without paying a dime and keep borrowing against their wealth.
Bob Lord breaks down why we need a tax code that rewards work, not wealth. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Bob Lord breaks down why we need a tax code that rewards work, not wealth. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
July 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
For the wealthy, the tax code removes all the risk. That means billionaires can sit on massive gains for decades without paying a dime and keep borrowing against their wealth.
Bob Lord breaks down why we need a tax code that rewards work, not wealth. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Bob Lord breaks down why we need a tax code that rewards work, not wealth. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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If we let this oligarchic cycle continue, writes Bob Lord of @ips-dc.org and @patrioticmillionaires.org, America's wealth distribution will increasingly come to resemble that of the world's poorest, least developed, and/or most corrupt nations.
Is America’s progressive income tax—enacted by Congress in part to tame Gilded Age excess—even capable of curbing the wealth inequality now eating away at our social and political fabric?
The short answer: Hell no.
The root of the problem is that our tax code is based on a fiction.
The short answer: Hell no.
The root of the problem is that our tax code is based on a fiction.
Even sky-high income tax rates won’t stop the relentless rise of the richest
Tackling America's wealth gap will require more powerful tactics.
www.motherjones.com
July 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
If we let this oligarchic cycle continue, writes Bob Lord of @ips-dc.org and @patrioticmillionaires.org, America's wealth distribution will increasingly come to resemble that of the world's poorest, least developed, and/or most corrupt nations.
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Social justice, most of us understand, demands a “poverty line” and efforts to keep our poorest above it. But that justice will remain elusive until we also set a “wealth line” and keep all our richest below it. @dhnnjyn.bsky.social @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
May 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Social justice, most of us understand, demands a “poverty line” and efforts to keep our poorest above it. But that justice will remain elusive until we also set a “wealth line” and keep all our richest below it. @dhnnjyn.bsky.social @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If Trump achieved the result he wants, he’d in substance have done no more than reverse what he did in 2017 when he slashed Walmart’s corporate tax rate.
What Trump proposes here gets awfully close to a corporate tax rate increase. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-e...
Trump Tells Walmart to 'Eat' the Cost of His Tariffs | Common Dreams
U.S. President Trump criticizes Walmart for blaming tariffs for price hikes, vows to watch the company. Economists warn tariff costs will likely be passed on to consumers.
www.commondreams.org
May 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
If Trump achieved the result he wants, he’d in substance have done no more than reverse what he did in 2017 when he slashed Walmart’s corporate tax rate.
What Trump proposes here gets awfully close to a corporate tax rate increase. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-e...
Trump Tells Walmart to 'Eat' the Cost of His Tariffs | Common Dreams
U.S. President Trump criticizes Walmart for blaming tariffs for price hikes, vows to watch the company. Economists warn tariff costs will likely be passed on to consumers.
www.commondreams.org
May 18, 2025 at 1:46 AM
What Trump proposes here gets awfully close to a corporate tax rate increase. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-e...
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NEW: Our current effective tax rate on capital gains shrinks as the gains grow in size and duration, inviting the tax dodge — Buy-Hold for Decades-Sell — that’s driving America’s wealth concentration.
Our future depends on reforming the capital gains tax. @azboblord.bsky.social in @inequality.org:
Our future depends on reforming the capital gains tax. @azboblord.bsky.social in @inequality.org:
America's Most Regressive Tax Levy: Our Tax on Capital Gains - Inequality.org
Our capital gains effective tax rate shrinks as the gains grow in size and duration, inviting the tax dodge that’s driving America’s wealth concentration.
inequality.org
May 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
NEW: Our current effective tax rate on capital gains shrinks as the gains grow in size and duration, inviting the tax dodge — Buy-Hold for Decades-Sell — that’s driving America’s wealth concentration.
Our future depends on reforming the capital gains tax. @azboblord.bsky.social in @inequality.org:
Our future depends on reforming the capital gains tax. @azboblord.bsky.social in @inequality.org:
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In the latest installation of his ‘Buy-Hold for Decades-Sell’ series, IPS fellow @azboblord.bsky.social illustrates how low tax rates on investment gains can radically change retirement outcomes — through the tales of Bob Golfsalot and Morris Worksalot.
inequality.org/article/the-...
inequality.org/article/the-...
The Harsh Unfairness of ‘Buy-Hold for Decades-Sell’
How this ongoing tax avoidance strategy is making an oligarchic concentration of America’s wealth ever more inevitable.
inequality.org
April 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
In the latest installation of his ‘Buy-Hold for Decades-Sell’ series, IPS fellow @azboblord.bsky.social illustrates how low tax rates on investment gains can radically change retirement outcomes — through the tales of Bob Golfsalot and Morris Worksalot.
inequality.org/article/the-...
inequality.org/article/the-...
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Trumpistas are doing everything imaginable to untax the rich & their corporate empires. But we can't stop exploring new ways to create a tax system that helps build a more equal future. Check this new @rooseveltinstitute.org study. @nikolusiani.bsky.social
rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
Taxing Excessive Profits: Designing a Pro-Competition Corporate Tax System - Roosevelt Institute
In a new analysis, Niko Lusiani and Ira Regmi lay the groundwork for developing a pro-competition tax on excess corporate profits in America.
rooseveltinstitute.org
February 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Trumpistas are doing everything imaginable to untax the rich & their corporate empires. But we can't stop exploring new ways to create a tax system that helps build a more equal future. Check this new @rooseveltinstitute.org study. @nikolusiani.bsky.social
rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
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Charles Littlejohn has gotten a draconian sentence for leaking information that exposed our US Oligarchial class for the tax evaders they are. It was a public service, and he deserves a commutation.
Sign a petition here.
freecharleslittlejohn.com
Sign a petition here.
freecharleslittlejohn.com
Free Charles Littlejohn!
freecharleslittlejohn.com
December 17, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Charles Littlejohn has gotten a draconian sentence for leaking information that exposed our US Oligarchial class for the tax evaders they are. It was a public service, and he deserves a commutation.
Sign a petition here.
freecharleslittlejohn.com
Sign a petition here.
freecharleslittlejohn.com
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NEW: @patrioticmillionaires.org and @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social launched a letter campaign calling on President Biden to commute the prison sentence of IRS whistleblower Charles Littlejohn to time served.
December 17, 2024 at 5:22 PM
NEW: @patrioticmillionaires.org and @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social launched a letter campaign calling on President Biden to commute the prison sentence of IRS whistleblower Charles Littlejohn to time served.
The information Charles Littlejohn leaked about billionaire tax avoidance was a huge wake up call we needed. At the behest of those billionaires, he was sentenced to six times the maximum guideline sentence. Tell Pres. Biden to commute that extreme sentence:
freecharleslittlejohn.com
freecharleslittlejohn.com
Free Charles Littlejohn!
freecharleslittlejohn.com
December 17, 2024 at 6:03 PM
The information Charles Littlejohn leaked about billionaire tax avoidance was a huge wake up call we needed. At the behest of those billionaires, he was sentenced to six times the maximum guideline sentence. Tell Pres. Biden to commute that extreme sentence:
freecharleslittlejohn.com
freecharleslittlejohn.com
The year 794 marked the beginning of the Japanese Renaissance. If you were around then and increased your wealth by $1M per day since then, you’d be about tied with Elon Musk.
December 16, 2024 at 10:53 PM
The year 794 marked the beginning of the Japanese Renaissance. If you were around then and increased your wealth by $1M per day since then, you’d be about tied with Elon Musk.
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On its maiden flight, Mark Zuckerberg flew his brand-new, $80 million private jet from California to his mammoth 1,300-acre estate in Hawaii, burning 5,500 kilograms of fuel and releasing 19 tons of CO₂ into the atmosphere. #agu24
On its maiden flight, Mark Zuckerberg flew his brand-new, $80 million private jet from California to his mammoth 1,300-acre estate in Hawaii, burning 5,500 kilograms of fuel and releasing 19 tons of C...
On its maiden flight, Mark Zuckerberg flew his brand-new, $80 million private jet from California to his mammoth
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December 11, 2024 at 11:02 PM
On its maiden flight, Mark Zuckerberg flew his brand-new, $80 million private jet from California to his mammoth 1,300-acre estate in Hawaii, burning 5,500 kilograms of fuel and releasing 19 tons of CO₂ into the atmosphere. #agu24
There are about 338 million Americans. Elon Musk could write each of us a $1,000 check and have $25 billion left over for “walking around money.”
Tax the damn billionaires already!
Tax the damn billionaires already!
December 10, 2024 at 4:08 PM
There are about 338 million Americans. Elon Musk could write each of us a $1,000 check and have $25 billion left over for “walking around money.”
Tax the damn billionaires already!
Tax the damn billionaires already!
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“Our health care system, in the end, shouldn’t be making our rich richer. Our richest instead should be paying enough in taxes to help all Americans stay healthy.”
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A Murder on the Streets Has Fear Rising in the Suites - Inequality.org
The public anger at Corporate Health has never been higher.
inequality.org
December 8, 2024 at 10:50 PM
“Our health care system, in the end, shouldn’t be making our rich richer. Our richest instead should be paying enough in taxes to help all Americans stay healthy.”
inequality.org/great-divide...
inequality.org/great-divide...