Opioid orphans, Amazon’s not afraid to fail and other commentariesThat’s more than we spend on defense — on infrastructure, education, poverty programs . . . everything, but Social Security and Medicare.
“There’s nothing to prevent the federal government,” says Stephanie Kelter, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ economic adviser, “from creating as much money as it wants to and paying it to someone.”After World War I, the German government couldn’t afford its reparation payments, so it printed more money.Pols promise ‘free stuff’ yet the US economy has only grown LESS free
Since the stock market’s risen almost 30,000 points in 15 years, there are a lot of absurdly rich people around.But rich people already pay a bigger share, and raising taxes on the rich wouldn’t even get us out of the mess we’re in.