Tag: capitalism

• We can haz society? Taxes, democracy & the Panama Papers

  What do you need to know about the Panama Papers? Let’s see, people who are richer than most of us can even imagine have an elaborate system to hide the trillions of dollars that we would need to tax if we wanted to, say, maintain our basic infrastructure (e.g., bridges, schools) and, you know, hopefully…

  Jonathan Matthew Smucker

  April 6, 2016

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  capitalism, democracy, Panama Papers, socialism, taxes

• ‘Awkward’ socialists tarnishing the Democratic Party’s big business-loving brand

  Today in a Politico article titled “The Socialist Surge” Ben Schreckinger and Jonathan Topaz discuss how uncomfortable it is for the Democratic Party to have a self-identified socialist Presidential candidate—Bernie Sanders—picking up so much steam among the Democratic Party base. The sub-header reads: “The rise of Bernie Sanders is proving awkward for the Democratic Party.” You know what might…

  Jonathan Matthew Smucker

  July 7, 2015

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  Bernie Sanders, Bernie2016, capitalism, socialism

• It’s not every day that Grover Norquist accuses me of writing ‘foolish things’

  It’s not every day that I have the honor of being accused of writing “foolish things” by the “great tax reformer” Grover Norquist. After reading Kevin Drum’s account of Louisiana Republicans’ exacerbation with Norquist, I Tweeted my own exacerbation. To my surprise, Mr. Norquist took at least a few seconds to break from his busy agenda…

  Jonathan Matthew Smucker

  June 9, 2015

  Uncategorized

  capitalism, freedom, Grover Norquist, taxation

• The Problem of Collective Action in the United States

  Picking up from yesterday’s post, the central problem I have attempted to apprehend from so many angles has to do with political behavior — especially collective action in the context of the United States over the past 50 or so years. How and why do people act together collectively to advance or defend their common…

  Jonathan Matthew Smucker

  July 19, 2012

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  capitalism, collective action, global warming, Occupy Wall Street, social change