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James K. Galbraith

Democracy in America Now

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If democracy is government “of the people, by the people, for the people,” then there exists, to this day, a residuum of democracy in America. It is found mainly at the local level, in towns and smaller cities, and even up to the scale of some of the smaller states. Even at these levels it…

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A New Wealth Tax? Or Strengthen the Tried-and-True One We Already Have?

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Senator Elizabeth Warren has offered up a proposal for wealth taxation – three percent per year on fortunes over a billion, two percent on fifty million and up, with in-kind equivalents for the owners of private companies, so that Bloomberg and the Kochs would simply hand over shares in their firms which the government would…

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