Quotation for Today: Corporate-Welfare Kings: The Modern-Day Robber Barons

The redistribution of income and wealth is the focus of the quotation for today.

Quotation for Today: Romneynomics Is Wrong for America

Republican presidential wannabe, Mitt Romney, has made the return to Bushnomics the central idea of his political campaign. These are the same economic policies that provided tax breaks for American companies that off-shored thousands of American jobs to foreign countries. Conversely, President Barack Obama has advocated tax breaks for American companies who create jobs for Americans, not foreigners.  


Across the jump, the quotation for today captures the essence of the economic policies that GOP presidential wannabe, Mitt Romney, thinks is good for America.

Quotation for Today: Affirmations

The quotation for today, across the jump, provides us with a clearer picture of the presumptive GOP presidential candidate's attributes than the one we may have had.

Quotation for Today: Mitt Romney and Robert Bork, Severe Conservative Twins

The nightmarish administration that a Robert Bork-advised President Mitt Romney would bring to the United States was captured superbly in the quotation for today, across the jump.

Quotation for Today: The Extreme Candidate of the Extreme Party

Across the jump, the quotation for today introduces us to the Republican presidential wannabe, Mitt Romney, whose extreme political stunts insult the intelligence and honesty of the American people.

Quotation for Today: America's Income and Wealth Gap - A Republican Creation

The quotation for today -- across the jump -- captures the fact that Republican government, economic and monetary policies of the past 30-plus years have created the greatest income and wealth inequality in the United States since before the Great Depression.

Quotation for Today: Is The United States Tax Code a Thieves' Code?

The United States tax code is an abomination and it is destroying the financial well being of middle- and working-class Americans.


The quotation for today -- across the jump -- aims our attention at the principal, infamous attribute of the United States tax code; a tax code that is the upshot of 30 years of Republican government, economic and monetary policies. 

Quotation for Today: Mitt Romney's New Best Friend Forever (BFF)

The quotation for today shines a bit of light on a dark recess of the 2012 presidential race.

Quotation for Today: People Who Fill In Line Seven on the IRS Form 1040

Wages and salaries that are insufficient to support families, as represented by the Brookings-reported fact that 28 million American tax filers received the earned income tax credit (E.I.T.C.) in 2010, is an indictment of Wall Street-based capitalism and Republican economic and monetary policies.  


Across the jump, the quotation for today aims our attention at the problem of stagnant wages and salaries; wages too meager to support a family.

Quotation for Today: Chris Christie's Tunnel Story and Mitt Romney's Tax Havens

The quotation for today shines a light on the hypocrisy of the Republicans' budget cuts; cuts that mainly harm middle- and working-class Americans while bestowing benefits on the ultra wealthy.

A Thousand Words, Vol. 1, Issue 25.

Yesterday, Mitt Romney's tax return for the year 2010, with line seven (wages/salaries/tips income -- the main source of income for the 99%) on the 1040 left blank, was highlighted in this post. The tax form depicts Mitt Romney's tax information down to the adjusted gross income (AGI) figure on line 37. 


Today, an explanation of the Buffett Rule or what I refer to as the Fairness Tax Rule, which is a proposal to make the tax code more equitable and fair and is presently up for a vote in Congress, is presented here.  


As you watch the explanation of the Buffet Rule/Fairness Tax Rule, please keep in mind that news agencies, here and here, have reported that Romney's effective tax rate for 2010  -- when his AGI was more than $21.5 million -- was less than 14 percent. 

A Thousand Words, Vol.1, Issue 24.

To view the upshot of Republican economic policies and why Mitt Romney has a true problem understanding wage-earning, middle- and working-class Americans, then go here. Please note the lack of information on line seven.


As this picture shows, Mitt Romney is a true rentier, and of course the economic and monetary policies of the United States are guided by rentier principles.


To read the BuzzFeed companion article for this picture, then go here.

Quotation for Today: Mitt Romney's Welfare Policies (Updated)

Social Darwinism appears to be alive and well in the Republican Party and plutocracy is the ruling theory that guides the GOP. The plutocratic governance of the GOP is maintained, nourished and reinforced by its economic welfare policies for the One Percent. 


As the quotation for today highlights (across the jump), the Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, is a strong advocate of welfare policies for the One Percent; policies that would continue the intense inequality that is now prevalent in the United States. This  inequality was created by 30 years of Republican economic policies that are embraced by Mitt Romney.

Quotation for Today: Is Mitt Romney A Paul Ryan Wannabe?

The quotation for today points the reader at the 'empathy gap' in the Romneyville Budget,also known as the Mitt Romney-embraced, Paul Ryan Republican Budget.

Mitt Romney's Alternate Universe

In the alternate universe of Republican presidential wannabe, Mitt Romney, the truth is the opposite of what Mitt Romney declares is the truth.  To understand Mitt Romney's alternate universe, go here.

Republicans Stealing the Postal Workers' Pension

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives is working a bill to "modernize" the postal service.  For more information on the postal service modernization bill, please continue reading across the jump.

Quotation for Today: Paul Ryan's Romneyville Budget or Creating A Modern-Day Hooverville

The Republican budget for the United States of America is the theme of the quotation for today.

A Thousand Words, Vol.1, Issue 17

Matt Browne, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, wrote in his Huffington Post article that Mitt Romney is an advocate of David Cameron-style economic policies.  To see how well Mitt Romney's favorite economic policies have worked in the real world, go here.


The companion story by Paul Krugman can be read here.


Matt Browne's Huffington Post article.

Quotation for Today: Courts Used to Redistribute Income and Wealth to the One Percent

The quotation for today highlights another tool -- bankruptcy procedures -- that is being used to redistribute wealth to the One Percent.

Quotation for Today: The Moneyed Interest and Mitt Romney

The role of money -- post Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision -- is the focus of the quotation for today.  What does money say about a political candidate?