reason.com - 3/27/2009
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Matthew Yglesias wonders why the government can't decide that those making yearly salaries in excess of $10 million are unworthy of such obscene levels of compensation and, in the service of "egalitarianism," couldn't simply apply "arbitrary limits" to tax away this excess ...
vanityfair.com - 3/31/2009
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vanityfair.com —
Washington has always been out of sync with
the rest of America, but since Obama's election, Beltway...
pundits seem more stubbornly and stupendously irrelevant than ever. Have three decades of being wired for Republican power blown their jittery, ...
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Hey, Why Not?
The Agitator —
Just when you think the right has out-dumbed itself, someone on the left writes something like this.
What Kind of Fool is Matt Yglesias?
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
a) The kind of fool who has never held a real job?
b) The kind of fool who thinks there’s nothing un-American about using punitive taxation to drive the best baseball players in the world out of the United States?
c) The kind of fool who has been drinking too much bong water?
Judging by this post, probably all three?
Some people, as I understand it, just don’t think inequality is a problem. But for the egalitarians among us, I’ve never really understood the view that obscene executive compensation is an issue that absolutely positively certainly must ...
POLITICS: What Kind of Fool is Matt Yglesias?
Baseball Crank —
a) The kind of fool who has never held a real job?
b) The kind of fool who thinks there's nothing un-American about using punitive taxation to drive the best baseball players in the world out of the United States?
c) The kind of fool who has been drinking too much bong water?
Judging by this post, probably all three?
Some people, as I understand it, just don't think inequality is a problem. But for the egalitarians among us, I've never really understood the view that obscene executive compensation is an issue that absolutely positively certainly must only be addressed through the indirect Rube ...
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Rich:
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