Just another reminder of why an aggressive and effective estate tax is good policy.
Concentration of too much wealth and power in too few people hurts us all. The top 5% own 40% of our wealth; the next 5% own the next 40%; and the rest of us find ourselves fighting over the remaining scraps - all out of our own collective wealth. It's like Hawaii, Texas, and Alabama getting 90%, and the other 47 states duking it out over the leftover KFC and McDonalds wrappers in the ditch.
Long past time to bring back the insights that made this country so economically effective that it created all this wealth.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 4 months ago
So much for trickle down economics. Thanks, Lee Atwater and your ilk who, with those stunning golden-light "Morning in America" commercials in 1980, convinced our unwashed masses of idiot America that Reagan would unleash great and vast amounts of wealth on us ALL. How'd that work out?
GusII
· 4 months ago
In the real world, money has always deified gravity.
GusII
· 4 months ago
If the US government does it, why can’t the media king of the world?
LeftCoastOracle
· 4 months ago
Line reporters will do what the head of the company signals is acceptable. Murdoch hasn't done anything to indicate that he's particularly scrupulous so why would one expect his reporters to be?
Indigo
· 4 months ago
That's all well and good but . . . unless subscriptions are down, Murdoch will stay the course. He deserves to be bankrupted but how can that happen when he still sells newspapers?
Steve Hynd
· 4 months ago
CJR.org:
Now, we normally wouldn’t write about a tabloid scandal in Britain. But the executive who oversaw News’ UK papers at the time is Les Hinton, who is now CEO of Dow Jones & Company, parent of The Wall Street Journal. The Guardian writes that he has “misled” Parliament and the public, “albeit in good faith.” Basically, the exec ultimately responsible for News of the World at the time of the scandal is now the guy in charge of The Wall Street Journal.
Diogenes
· 4 months ago
Oh no! Now some enterprising young hacker is bound to do the same thing to Rupert and the fam. Instant karma in the digital age!
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 4 months ago
Leni Riefenstahl would be so proud, Rupert.
Adrian_Kimberly
· 4 months ago
None of us should be "surprised" by the criminal activity committed by Rupert Murdoch and his minions from hell, otherwise known as his international payroll. They walk like ducks, quack like ducks and therefore must be crooks. It's self-evident.
Stephen
· 4 months ago
The Board of Naturalization and the State Department need to strip Mr. Murdoch of his abused U.S. Citizenship and turn him off, or be sued by the people.
His comrades are blatant subversive ideologues and his work product, the polarization and stupefying of America, have gone too far in their assault on American civilization.
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Concentration of too much wealth and power in too few people hurts us all. The top 5% own 40% of our wealth; the next 5% own the next 40%; and the rest of us find ourselves fighting over the remaining scraps - all out of our own collective wealth. It's like Hawaii, Texas, and Alabama getting 90%, and the other 47 states duking it out over the leftover KFC and McDonalds wrappers in the ditch.
Long past time to bring back the insights that made this country so economically effective that it created all this wealth.
Now, we normally wouldn’t write about a tabloid scandal in Britain. But the executive who oversaw News’ UK papers at the time is Les Hinton, who is now CEO of Dow Jones & Company, parent of The Wall Street Journal. The Guardian writes that he has “misled” Parliament and the public, “albeit in good faith.” Basically, the exec ultimately responsible for News of the World at the time of the scandal is now the guy in charge of The Wall Street Journal.
His comrades are blatant subversive ideologues and his work product, the polarization and stupefying of America, have gone too far in their assault on American civilization.
http://www.light-to-dark.com/unanticipated_2.html
Yes, Fox Propaganda Inc was in fact, the Bush-Cheney dictatorships' sole voice.
Citizenship, subversive.