Stories by Paul Buchheit

Paul Buchheit teaches economic inequality at DePaul University. He is the founder and developer of the Web sites UsAgainstGreed.org, PayUpNow.org and RappingHistory.org, and the editor and main author of "American Wars: Illusions and Realities" (Clarity Press). He can be reached at paul@UsAgainstGreed.org. subscribe to Paul Buchheit's feed

Posted on: Jul 14, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Committed capitalists fail to recognize that individual success is a result of collaborative effort.

Posted on: Jul 8, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Did you know that just 32 companies avoided enough in 2012 taxes to pay the ENTIRE 2013 federal education budget?

Posted on: Jun 30, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The U.S. is near the bottom of the developed world in median wealth, probably the best gauge for the economic strength of the middle class.

Posted on: Jun 23, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Children, seniors and disabled citizens going hungry is a stain on humanity.

Posted on: Jun 16, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The total cost of K-12 educational cutbacks in recent years is about equal to the amount of state taxes left unpaid by these companies.

Posted on: Jun 9, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Companies like Apple and Google haul in huge profits, but invest minimally in America and skirt the tax laws that pay for the next generation's education.

Posted on: Jun 2, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The new normal is for the wealthy to seize all of the income, move profits offshore and make everyone else pay the bills.

Posted on: May 26, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The Census Bureau has reported that one out of six Americans lives in poverty. A shocking figure. But it's actually much, much worse.

Posted on: May 19, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Big business is making its way around the world like a modern-day Attila the Hun, pillaging and despoiling the planet.

Posted on: May 12, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Corporations have decided to let middle-class workers pay for national investments that have largely benefited businesses over the years.

Posted on: May 5, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The predators on our society will scream about threats to "freedom" as soon as we start going after them, but it's just about trying to protect profits.

Posted on: Apr 28, 2013, Source: AlterNet

We're directing most of our resources toward tragedies that might happen instead of tragedies that occur every day.

Posted on: Apr 21, 2013, Source: AlterNet

If there's any way capitalism can work, it has to be regulated. Otherwise greed takes over.

Posted on: Apr 14, 2013, Source: AlterNet

They make much of their revenue in the U.S., but claim billions of dollars in foreign profits and billions of dollars in U.S. losses, thereby evading their tax duty.

Posted on: Apr 7, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The huge multinationals have made it clear; they don't feel obliged to give anything back to the people who made it all possible.

Posted on: Mar 31, 2013, Source: AlterNet

From the 'get a job' critic to the 'self-made' entrepreneur.

Posted on: Mar 24, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Any of the ten richest Americans could pay a year's rent for all of America's homeless with their 2012 income.

Posted on: Mar 18, 2013, Source: AlterNet

It's a golden age for corporate profits. So why don't our biggest corporations pay more taxes?

Posted on: Mar 10, 2013, Source: AlterNet

We all live better lives when the common good is not for sale.

Posted on: Mar 3, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The personal stories recounted below make it clear that an essential human need has been turned into a product that benefits a few people at the expense of many others.

Posted on: Feb 25, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The best actors in America are the business and government leaders who impersonate job creators and makers of prosperity.

Posted on: Feb 19, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The wealthy give plenty of excuses for our outrageously unjust society. They just go to show that extreme wealth can destroy your brain.

Posted on: Oct 14, 2012, Source: AlterNet

There's no free market -- just businesses doing whatever they please with virtually zero accountability.

Posted on: Sep 24, 2012, Source: UsAgainstGreed.org

Three key ways America's approach to education is failing our children.

Posted on: Sep 17, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Essential public needs are fast becoming the newest products on the market -- with the benefits only going to those who buy them.

Posted on: Aug 20, 2012, Source: AlterNet

We have to learn how to make the facts more appealing to the people who need to hear them.

Posted on: Aug 13, 2012, Source: AlterNet

We spend lifetimes developing community assets, then give them away to a corporation for lifetimes to come.

Posted on: Aug 6, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Republicans have their own special contemptible methods of handling politics in Washington.

Posted on: Jul 30, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Too many Americans continue to be numbed by the soothing sounds of conservative spin in the media. Let's take a look at the facts.

Posted on: Jul 24, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Wealthy individuals and corporations want us to believe they've made it on their own, without the help of government or the American people. That's the bull of Wall Street.

Posted on: Jan 30, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Posted on: Apr 25, 2008, Source: AlterNet

Hedge fund manager John Paulson, who made a clever bet against subprime mortgages, made close to $4 billion.