Tuesday, April 29, 2014

They Don't Like You Knowing What They Are Stealing From Us

Los Angeles Times - Americans differ sharply on causes of income inequality, study finds. There are so many problems with this article. It states that Republicans believe that people are poor because they are lazy. It attempts to polarize people by political parties as to the cause of income inequality and implies that only Democrats believe it is because of tax laws that primarily benefit the rich. Well, follow it up with this article.

Huffington Post - The Big Fix: How Congress Rigs the Rules. Congress is about to make permanent tax breaks that it gave to the people who destroyed the financial industry and let unemployment payments expire. The thing to watch is not tax rates, it is deductions.

Huffington Post - What Problem Is Privatizing Fannie and Freddie Meant to Solve?. This is one of the only articles to talk about something I wrote about weeks or months ago. A couple of Senators want to sell Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for pennies on the dime when they are about to provide over $200 Billion back to the taxpayers who bailed them out.