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Plutocracy: If Corporations and the Rich Paid 1960s-Level Taxes, the Debt Would Vanish

Sam Pizzigati, Campaign for America's Future. July 24, 2011.

By feeding the rich and their corporations one massive tax break after another, lawmakers have thrown a monstrous monkey wrench into our national finances.

Why the Democratic Party Has Abandoned the Middle Class in Favor of the Rich

Kevin Drum, Mother Jones. May 27, 2011.

If politicians care almost exclusively about the concerns of the rich, it makes sense that over the past decades they've enacted policies that have ended up benefiting the rich.

We Have to Fight the Plutocrats to Build an Economy that Works

Stephen Lerner, In These Times. April 20, 2011.

Americans have an opportunity to go on the offensive to transform the economy and politics of our country and create shared prosperity for all.

The Plutocrats Are Living It up: Larry Summers' Gilded Path to Money and Power

Matthew Skomarovsky, LittleSis Blog. January 13, 2011.

Larry Summers’ shuffling from Harvard to the White House is symptomatic of a new American plutocracy that keeps the gears of corruption greased.

There Is a Global Aristocracy in the Making -- and the Greedy Super-Rich Think They've Earned It

Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium. January 11, 2011.

The old sense of noblesse oblige among the ultra-rich is giving way to the attitude that if the ultra-rich could do it, everyone else should pull themselves up by their bootstraps.