c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 1 , shows China’s own statistics released yesterday (July 21). Although Han
Chinese resent the preferential treatment accorded minorities, the latter
have fared worse (relative to Han), especially those who live in rural areas
where most China’s minorities live.
Ian Johnson, Beijing’s Ethnic Policy Faces Data Challenge. Wall Street
Journal, July 22, 2009.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124816735513967749.html
Note:
(a) Mentioned in the caption of the photograph is:
Qiang people 羌族
http://en.wikip |
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发帖数: 987 | 2 【 以下文字转载自 ChinaNews 讨论区 】
发信人: waiwaiwai (whywhy), 信区: ChinaNews
标 题: 香港的“深层矛盾”是啥
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Jan 4 01:04:33 2010, 美东)
Was he referring to the over-reliance of the Hong Kong economy on the
finance and property sector? Was he raising alarm bells over the widening
gulf between the rich and the poor? Was he talking about the protracted
bickering over the city’s political reform? Or was he lamenting the hearts
of Hong Kong people have not yet return to the Motherland 12 years after the
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发帖数: 3205 | 3 (CBS News) The nationwide flu outbreak has taken a dangerous turn in Boston.
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has just declared a state of emergency in his
city.
In recent weeks, 18 people across Massachusetts have died because of the flu.
National flu outbreak widens
Complete coverage: Health Center: Cold |
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J*V
发帖数: 3150 | 4 I will never worry about the top 53% people. They are doing fine.
They are probably doing better under Obama's administration.
The gap between the rich and the poor has widened in the past 4 years.
My job as the president of the united states is to protect the 47% people. |
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发帖数: 17544 | 5 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=206331546
WASHINGTON (AP) — Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near
-poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of
deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream.
Survey data exclusive to The Associated Press points to an increasingly
globalized U.S. economy, the widening gap between rich and poor, and the
loss of good-paying manufacturing jobs as reasons for the trend.
The finding... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6327 | 6 牵涉工会、议员和Obama接管团
From WSJ
Graft Case Touches Jackson Jr.
Democrat Denies Seeking Senate Seat From Blagojevich; Service Union Is
Scrutinized
By JONATHAN WEISMAN, CLARE ANSBERRY and DOUGLAS BELKIN
CHICAGO -- The scandal surrounding Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's alleged
attempt to sell President-elect Barack Obama's former U.S. Senate seat
widened on Wednesday, threatening to taint a rising Democratic star and pull
in one of the nation's biggest labor unions.
An attorney for Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr |
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发帖数: 10345 | 7 China Weighs Tariffs on Some U.S. Exports as Tensions Rise
By KEITH BRADSHER
Published: September 13, 2009
HONG KONG — China unexpectedly ratcheted up pressure on the United States
in a widening trade dispute on Sunday evening, taking steps toward imposing
tariffs on American exports of automotive products and chicken meat in
retaliation for President Obama’s decision late Friday to levy tariffs on
tires.
The action by China’s commerce ministry came as both governments are facing
domestic pressu |
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发帖数: 7299 | 8 美联社质疑伍兹种族偏向 为何情妇全是白人(图) 娱乐频道
或许在纷纷扰扰的老虎伍兹绯闻案中，有个细节被忽视了。无论什么时候，一个情
妇浮出水面，这个情妇都不是黑人，而是像老虎伍兹太太艾琳一样的白人，特别是金发
美女。美联社作者杰西-华盛顿(Jesse Washington)在文章《老虎的问题让他距离黑人
越来越远》(Tiger’s troubles widen his distance from blacks)之中对这个问题进
行解读，她担心老虎伍兹或许从心中从来不把自己当作一个黑人。
虽然老虎伍兹情妇的这些细节在白人世界没有引起注意，在黑人社区却已经获得广
泛关注了。在汤姆-卓伊纳(Tom Joyner)的电台节目中，他整个一周都在嘲笑老虎伍兹
：“谢天谢地，老虎，你没有娶一个黑人女士。因为如果一个姐妹发现你在同一堆白人
婆娘鬼混……” 在这个时候，歌曲之中出现一段滑稽地模仿，意思是说这个姐妹会阉
割老虎伍兹。汤姆-卓伊纳的嘲讽歌曲并没有就此结束，而是接着说：“每个美国人都
想问你，一个兄弟到底需要多少个白人婆娘。”
不止电台，网上也有许多黑人谈论老虎伍兹的这一倾向。罗伯特-保罗-雷 |
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发帖数: 897 | 10 PHOENIX – Republican lawmakers want to widen Arizona's illegal immigration
crackdown with a proposal to require hospitals to check on whether patients
are in the country legally, causing outrage among medical professionals who
fear becoming de facto immigration agents under the law.
The medical industry ripped the bill Monday as it was scheduled for a
hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Doctors envisioned scenarios in
which immigrants with contagious diseases such as tuberculosis would st... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 11 By MARK STEYN Posted 03/04/2011 06:45 PM ET
According to Bismarck's best-known maxim on Europe's most troublesome region
, the Balkans are not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
Americans could be forgiven for harboring similar sentiments after the
murder of two U.S. airmen in Germany by a Kosovar Muslim.
Remember Kosovo? Me neither. But it was big at the time, launched by Bill
Clinton in the wake of his Monica difficulties: Make war, not love, as the
boomers advise. So Clinton di... 阅读全帖 |
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y****t
发帖数: 10233 | 13 共产工会主义初级阶段.
As many as 400 cops could face disciplinary charges for fixing tickets in a
widening corruption scandal, The Post has learned.
The fixers, many of them union delegates, could get access to copies of the
summons paperwork and grab them, or ask others to do so, before the tickets
were sent out to adjudicating agencies like DMV or the Parking Violations
Bureau
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/cops_in_fix_for_nixing_tix_Z
妈X的discipline,还不痛痛给fire掉... |
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发帖数: 29846 | 14 西班牙地方选举，执政的社会党大败，超过90%地区计票结果，反对党人民党领先10%
Zapatero’s Socialists Routed as People’s Party Takes 38% of Vote in Spain
By Emma Ross-Thomas - May 22, 2011 5:04 PM ET
Spain’s Socialists suffered their worst electoral defeat in more than 30
years as voters punished Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s
party for soaring unemployment and spending cuts that aimed to shield the
country from Europe’s debt crisis.
With 91 percent of votes counted, the opposition People’s Party won 38
percent of the ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 15 Now we turn from the mostly meaningless college gap to the mostly
nonexistent wage gap. It is quoted ad-nauseum that women make 75 cents for
each dollar a man makes for the exact same work (it used to be 59 cents, now
it ranges from 75 to 80). In response to this, Nancy Pelosi helped push
through congress the Fair Pay Act. (1) Furthermore, April 20th, 2010 not
only represents a day we should all get stoned out of our gourds, it’s “
Equal Pay Day.” This holiday (of sorts) symbolizes how far into ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 16 Oct 04, 2011
If there was ever any doubt that the Democrats take the black vote for
granted, that doubt should have been put to rest when Barack Obama told the
Congressional Black Caucus, "Stop whining!"
Have you ever before heard either a Democratic or a Republican leader tell
his party's strongest supporters, "Stop whining"?
Blacks have a lot to complain about, not just about this Democratic
administration but about many other Democratic administrations, national and
local, over the years.
Unf... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9531 | 17 http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/numbers-income-top-one-perc
So you already know that the gap between rich and poor has been widening
lately. But some new numbers from the Congressional Budget Office put the
issue into stark relief.
As the chart at right shows, between 1979 and 2007, the share of after-tax
income going to each of the bottom four income quintiles--the bottom 80
percent--has dropped. The only quintile that has increased its share is the
top 20 percent. And the top 1 percent has... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9531 | 18 http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/numbers-income-top-one-perc
So you already know that the gap between rich and poor has been widening
lately. But some new numbers from the Congressional Budget Office put the
issue into stark relief.
As the chart at right shows, between 1979 and 2007, the share of after-tax
income going to each of the bottom four income quintiles--the bottom 80
percent--has dropped. The only quintile that has increased its share is the
top 20 percent. And the top 1 percent has... 阅读全帖 |
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g*********s
发帖数: 280 | 19 [This is an interesting and informative news article. You can easily find
that most arguments remain true if you change India in the article to China.
]
By NIDA NAJAR, New York Times, October 13 2011
NEW DELHI — Moulshri Mohan was an excellent student at one of the top
private high schools in New Delhi. When she applied to colleges, she
received scholarship offers of $20,000 from Dartmouth and $15,000 from Smith
. Her pile of acceptance letters would have made any ambitious teenager
smile: Corn... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 20 NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Students graduating from college last year walked
away with more than a diploma, they also left with a record level of student
loan debt.
College seniors who took out loans to fund their college education owed an
average of $25,250, 5% more than the class of 2009 owed, according to a
report from the Institute for College Access & Success' Project on Student
Debt.
Thanks to rising tuition and the weak economy, students were forced to rely
more heavily on loans to pay for th... 阅读全帖 |
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B**W
发帖数: 2273 | 21 ISTANBUL, Turkey — Iran guided the CIA's "lost" stealth drone to an intact
landing inside hostile territory by exploiting a navigational weakness long-
known to the US military, according to an Iranian engineer now working on
the captured drone's systems inside Iran.
Iranian electronic warfare specialists were able to cut off communications
links of the American bat-wing RQ-170 Sentinel, says the engineer, who works
for one of many Iranian military and civilian teams currently trying to
unravel ... 阅读全帖 |
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B**W
发帖数: 2273 | 22 Ports along the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts are racing to expand so that they
can take on an anticipated growth in shipping once an expanded Panama Canal
opens.
New locks are expected to be completed at the Panama Canal in 2014. They’ll
enable much larger ships to pass through the canal, providing these ships
to take direct routes between Asia and the U.S. East Coast.
“It will dramatically change the dynamics of shipping to the East Coast, or
at least that’s the expectation of some in the industry... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 23 By Mark Steyn
Had I been asked to deliver the State of the Union address, it would not
have delayed your dinner plans:
“The State of our Union is broke, heading for bankrupt, and total collapse
shortly thereafter. Thank you and goodnight! You’ve been a terrific crowd!”
I gather that Americans prefer something a little more upbeat, so one would
not begrudge a speechwriter fluffing it up by holding out at least the
possibility of some change of fortune, however remote. Instead, President
Obama ass... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 By GINA CHON And SHIRA OVIDE
Microsoft Corp. MSFT +0.11% is investing at least $605 million in Barnes &
Noble Inc.'s BKS +51.75% Nook digital-book business, as the software giant
pushes deeper into the e-books business and props up a rival to the iPad and
Amazon's Kindle.
Barnes & Noble's stock jumped around 100% in pretrading on news that
Microsoft was investing $300 million in their Nook e-reader. Gina Chon
reports on Markets Hub.
From humble beginnings to a bookselling behemoth, Barnes & Nob... 阅读全帖 |
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m*****e
发帖数: 789 | 26 Cutting taxes for the wealthy does not generate faster economic growth,
according to a new report. But those cuts may widen the income gap between
the rich and the rest, according to a new report.
A study from the Congressional Research Service -- the non-partisan research
office for Congress -- shows that "there is little evidence over the past
65 years that tax cuts for the highest earners are associated with savings,
investment or productivity growth."
In fact, the study found that higher tax... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 937 | 27 http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/24/news/economy/rich-vote-more/ind
在2008年，收入高于10万的投票率为80%，而收入低于2万的投票率为52%。这对Romeny
是个好消息呀。看来那47%确实不重要。
不过这篇文章把Middle Class 定义为Household 收入为 $48000 to $120000之间。
看来广大北美萎缩男女们大都为Upper Class。
看了一下俺们乡的收入数据，大多住户也在这个Upper Class里。
可俺们没觉得过着Upper Class的生活呀。
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- It's well established that the richer you are, the
more likely you are to vote.
But why aren't the less well-off turning out at the polls?
Are you better off?
In the 2008 presidential election, 80% of... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24893 | 28 I will never worry about the top 53% people. They are doing fine.
They are probably doing better under Obama's administration.
The gap between the rich and the poor has widened in the past 4 years.
My job as the president of the united states is to protect the 47% people. |
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发帖数: 29576 | 29
It will get much worse with obamacare being implemented and the major
symptoms are growing food stamps, unemployment, welfare, housing voucher,
street violence, drug-related crimes, widened affirmative action and
government debt.
At least my employer-offered healthcare plan becomes suddenly much more
expensive for 2013. I don't know how everybody else gets for the healthcare
next year. |
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y***l
发帖数: 1371 | 30 Those “Evil, Rich People” – are Democrats
Bill Gates - DemocratWarren Buffett - Democrat
Larry Ellison - Democrat
From the, “you never hear about that from the media” file – Those “Evil,
Rich People” that Democrats are always wailing about are actually –
Democrats.
In fact, the Top 3 on the list: Bill Gates, Warren Buffett & Larry Ellison
are all Democrats. Together, they are worth $126 Billion Dollars.
An analysis of the Top 20 Richest People in America (from Forbes Top 100)
reveals that a full... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10605 | 31 奥巴马主要有三个缺陷：
1.Obamacare
2.Widen the deficit (most money spend are wasted)
3.He played most golf games among all PRESIDENTS |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 32 11/5/2012
The headline of a recent article by the Washington Post’s Peter Wallsten
capsulizes, inadvertently, the supreme paradox of the Obama presidency.
“Obama struggles to balance African America’s hopes with country’s as a
whole,” it says.
The story documents Obama’s struggles over the last four years, which
continue today, to avoid overplaying his hand as the first black president,
yet to also not ignore this fact.
But nowhere does Wallsten note the irony that four years ago many understood... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 33 Previously on The Perils of Pauline:
Last year, our plucky heroine, the wholesome apple-cheeked American republic
, was trapped in an express elevator hurtling out of control toward the debt
ceiling. Would she crash into it? Or would she make some miraculous escape?
Yes! At the very last minute of her white-knuckle thrill ride to her
rendezvous with destiny, she was rescued by Congress’s decision to set up .
. . a Super Committee! Those who can, do. Those who can’t, form a
committee. Those who r... 阅读全帖 |
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m*********a
发帖数: 3299 | 34 What is a fair play on the paper does not mean fair in the reality.
With a widen wealthy gap between the poor and the wealthy we experienced in
the past several decades, increasing taxes on the wealthy while maintaining
a low tax rate on the poor is the right pathway to the true fairness. I do
not want to live in a banana republic with all the wealthy concentrated in a
few people.
go
gap
be
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发帖数: 29846 | 35 by Guest Contributor
In yet another attempt at jump starting the economy, the Federal Reserve’s
latest major stimulus action, known as QE3, is likely to have less effect on
the housing market than Fed Chairman Ben Bernake would hope.
QE3, shorthand for the third “quantitative easing” effort undertaken by
the Fed since the onset of the Great Recession, essentially involves the Fed
buying up a great many bonds to increase the money supply and reduce
interest rates. With the first two attempts havi... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 36 Reid Backs Away from Menendez Defense, Acknowledges Investigations
by Matthew Boyle 3 Feb 2013, 7:15 AM PDT 101
In an interview on ABC News’ This Week today, Reid admitted the existence
of multiple investigations into Menendez and his connections to wealthy
Democratic Party donor Dr. Salomon Melgen. Reid dropped his rhetoric
attacking this reporter, and other outlets that have been investigating the
Menendez scandal, since this reporter first published interviews in early
November with two Domi... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 37 The U.S. budget deficit widened in May from a year earlier on a 10 percent
increase in spending, the Treasury Department said.
Outlays exceeded receipts by $138.7 billion last month compared with a $124.
6 billion shortfall in May 2012, the Treasury said today in Washington. The
gap was in line with the $139 billion median estimate in a Bloomberg survey
of 23 economists.
The Congressional Budget Office last week said that spending in May would’
ve been $4 billion less than a year earlier were it... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 38 by Jammie
The president has been decrying the growing gap between rich and poor in
the U.S. to help sell his retread tax-and-spend proposals. But those
policies have already produced record levels of income inequality.
In his speech in Illinois last week, and at events since, Obama
described income inequality in the starkest terms. “This growing inequality
is morally wrong,” he said, and “undermines the very essence of America.”
To be sure, income inequality is a standard trope for l... 阅读全帖 |
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n****g
发帖数: 14743 | 39 欧巴马有点像当年铲子宣称“要吃饱饭就跟我走”的样子
in
inequality
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发帖数: 1397 | 40 吃他娘
穿他娘
跟着黑八不纳粮！
in
inequality
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 41 Measure Would Slash Spending by About $40 Billion Over 10 Years, Scaling
Back Program Further Than Democrats Say They Can Accept.
By KRISTINA PETERSON
WASHINGTON—A long-running political battle over how much to cut food stamps
could take a new turn this week, as the House is expected to weigh a
Republican measure to scale back the program further than Democrats say they
can accept.
The House GOP bill would cut spending on the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program by about $40 billion over 10... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4150 | 42 The Congressional Budget Office warned policy makers on Tuesday not to
become too comfortable with shrinking budget deficits.
The aging U.S. population, federal health-care costs, and expanded subsidies
for health care will push government spending to a much larger level as a
share of the economy than any period since World War II.
CBO, which provides budget estimates for Congress, said deficit is expected
to continue shrinking over the next few years but will eventually climb
again, “mainly bec... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 847 | 43 Kalifornia keeps getting better.
http://news.yahoo.com/illegal-immigrants-drivers-licenses-under
By Sharon Bernstein
SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - Illegal immigrants living in California will be
eligible to apply for driver's licenses under a law signed on Thursday by
Governor Jerry Brown, in the latest action to expand privileges for such
immigrants in the state.
The legislation is a major victory for Latino and immigration rights
activists, who have fought for decades for such a law, and it is expect... 阅读全帖 |
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R**********n
发帖数: 523 | 44 http://www.weidb.com/voice/index.php?title=Millions_of_Broken_A
Millions of Broken American Dreams -- An Open Letter to the World
November 12, 2013
Dear Fair and Righteous Citizens of the World,
We don't know who you are, but we know you are out there. We are
asking for your urgent help. We have been rendered voiceless, powerless, and
hopeless by the American mass media and many Americans. The American mass
media have lost journalistic ethics and objectivity and have been blatantly... 阅读全帖 |
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x****u
发帖数: 12955 | 45
This proves you've been brainwashed.
The only reason that you feel taxation widens rich poor gap is because the
tax laws were written by rich people for the benefit of rich people.
A fair tax law is needed, but not lower tax rate. |
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发帖数: 12955 | 46
won
A fair tax law has a better chance of coming to existence than the rich stop
squeezing middle class.
Lower rate is impossible because there aren't enough tax income to support
both rich and poor as it is. The government currently get by by issuing
debt, but that won't last forever. Hoping the government will decrease
spending is also a pipe dream. Because government spending is how many of
the rich people get rich. They won't do anything to jeopardize that.
The only hope is to put enoug... 阅读全帖 |
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t**x
发帖数: 20965 | 47 7 setbacks for the middle class
http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/24/news/economy/middle-class-econo
1. Workers are taking home their smallest slice of U.S. income on record:
2. Inequality has widened:
3. The job market still faces a gaping hole:
4. The poverty rate remains high:
5. Record number of Americans are on food stamps:
6. The manufacturing revival was a mirage:
7. Global trade isn't helping much: |
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发帖数: 3656 | 48 are you saying the wealth of the investment class or any rich class for that
matter is tied
to the national wealth and thereby tied to the national productivity
therefore can NOT grow substantially faster?
If that s the case, wouldn't there be no widening of the wealth gap at all
and this discussion of having to tax the rich more by some means all moot?
figure
doubt |
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S**C
发帖数: 2964 | 49 My opinion is the widening income gap has a lot to do with globalization,
not necessarily to do with the current tax regime. Certainly discriminate
income from labor against income from investment helped. But my gut feeling
is globalization is the top reason, and I am for globalization.
I do not really care that much if we have to tax the rich more or less by
some means. I just want to treat net-asset and income equally, because I
think it is fair. Any tax regime get the similar taxation burden
... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 50 by Jammie
All of these places voted overwhelmingly for Obama, who has suddenly become
the champion of income inquality in between lavish vacations and golf
outings.
The gap between the wealthy and the poor is most extreme in several of
the United States’ most prosperous and largest cities.
The economic divides in Atlanta, San Francisco, Washington, New York,
Chicago and Los Angeles are significantly greater than the national average,
according to a study released last week by the Brookin... 阅读全帖 |
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