Tag: class warfare

New Fronts in the War on the Poor

By Erik Loomis

In General

On July 8, 2016

It’s incredibly expensive to be poor in the United States. Many have made this observation, noting not only the relatively high price to live in many places but also the prices charged to the poor for “services” like payday loans. Another is charging defendants fees to access their basic rights. Of course this is also […]

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Kill the Poor

By Erik Loomis

On January 25, 2015

If I wrote an op-ed that said my ideology created policy preferences that might lead to the execution of the rich but, hey, we have to make trade-offs, I would not only not get that op-ed published, b

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Tax ‘Em!

By Erik Loomis

On April 4, 2014

Alex Pareene makes a lot of sense on progressives giving up on campaign donations as an issue and instead focuing on a much better idea that will also help solve the campaign issue. Expropriate the we

"A National Joke"

By Scott Lemieux

In Uncategorized

On December 7, 2007

I haven’t always agreed with Murray Chass’s analysis of labor issues, but he’s been doing great stuff about the exclusion of Marvin Miller from the Hall of Fame, this time by a committee stacked with Lords of the Realm after he was becoming to close to being elected under the old system. And, adding insult […]