The billionaire class paid a lot of money to build a judiciary that is hostile to voting rights, DEI, affirmative action, women's rights, labor rights and anything else that might result in a loss of one dime in their pockets. If only a Democratic trifecta had the balls to raise the marginal tax rate to 50% (at least), raise the Estate tax to 100% over $50 million, and pass a wealth tax to be paid annually on assets in excess of say $100M. The rich would still be rich. Musk would still be an asshole. And Jeff Bezos would still be banging Lauren Sanchez on his $800M yacht. But the country would be a lot better off.
Dear Mr. Carsten, For clarification a marginal tax rate of 100% would only begin once some established earnings threshold has been exceeded. Let's assume the threshold is set by law at $100 million. Any earnings above $100 million would be payable to the IRS at the 100% rate. Whatever rate, presumably lower, up to the $100 million threshold would still leave the earner a substantial sum of money after tax. In the 1950's the top marginal tax rate of 91% kicked in only if the earner exceeded the lawful threshold of $200,000. If she or she earned $200,001 then the additional tax above the threshold amounted to 91 cents.
Ok. But taxes need to be high when income disparities are at extremes. You may object. IMHO, taxes are a necessity for income redistribution at such times.
As a white woman, I have never felt discrimination for being white, but I have often been mistreated because I’m a woman. There is no such thing as anti-white discrimination.
There are times when I’m ashamed to be white. My black and brown sisters and brothers have the right to be treated with respect and equality simply because we are all members of one race - the human race!
I agree 100%. My children and grandchildren are mixed race; my niece is transitioning to be my nephew, my friends are of various races, ages, backgrounds, & sexual orientation. I love them all.
I know discrimination as a white woman. Why Congress has lost its collective spine puzzles me. Their lust for power and support for a man with not only hate but dementia will eventually take them down.
Musk, Melanie & her parents are immigrants. They need to be sent back. What about TFG’s sil & daughter who are Jewish? Do they get swept up in the purge he lusts after?
MSM has sold out and the truth is found in sites like Reich, Mary Trump, Jay, & Dean to name a few.
It is interesting to note that white people are not the majority in America today. A recent article based on (I think) the census has white people at less than 50% of the population. America is not the land of the free, and not all people are brave.
In the 1960s I filled out job applications that asked for race: HUMAN RACE. That is the only race. The “race” tfg and his minions are screaming about is not a scientifically valid argument; it is a SOCIAL CONSTRUCT.
Harris/Wolz and a Blue Congress is critical to saving Democracy. ♥️
You are absolutely right about race being a social construct. You again remind me of the anthropology class I took, titled "The Concept of Race", which basically pointed out that if you grouped all the people of the world according to specific sets of characteristics, and lined them up, you would have peaks where those characteristics are and everything in between in the valleys, and up and down the sides of those peaks. There is only one race. And the different "races" have characteristics that enable them to survive in the regions where they originated.
I worked for the Seminole Tribe of Florida out in the Everglades. They had Sen. John McCain’s brother as the main speaker on Veterans’ Day. I asked the school principal, a Sioux from South Dakota, why Native people were such strong supporters of veterans and the military.
He said, “We don’t want to be invaded again.”
Unless a person is a Native American, we are all immigrants.
As Mother Teresa said: “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
... and even the "Native" Americans "invaded" this land coming from Siberia across the Bering Strait. And the people from Siberia came, as all others do, from Africa.
I join you in feeling ashamed to be white, just like I often feel ashamed to have Christian beliefs (even though those beliefs are not tightly held). EVERYONE deserves to be treated with respect and to have equality.
Thank you, Paula. Unfortunately I am good at feeling shame (leftover from childhood) and I remember from way back, one of the owners of the quilt store I spent time at would preface everything she said with "I'm a Christian" which was invariably followed by spewing hate. Because of her I never wanted anyone to know about it when I did become a Christian. I agree with you completely that what matters is how you behave.
I promise you, I don't beat myself up over that. These days there are so many supposed Christians who are anything but, that I choose to act appropriately rather than advertise anything. Actually, some of my friends might question if I'm really Christian because I am accepting of other religions and value them, too.
By the way I am treated differently than my while male family members. I am being ‘mansplained’ about subjects I know more about than the man giving the “information”.
and There it is, Dean, What donOLD's whole campaign has been about, White Supremacy! You've Nailed it, once again, it's all about the Power of Hate, and J D Vance is an echo chamber for IT. Let's see what Tim Walz does with that dip shit tonight on the Debate stage?! The rules for this gig reads like it's for a contestant on the Jerry Springer show?! I think the network wants a literal"Street Fight" to happen on Air. Terrific piece this morning ☕ Dean Thanks 💯👍🇺🇸💙🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
Being all about white supremacy is stupid. IMO. I find myself wondering if the corporate media executives have to fight within themselves over whether money is more important than racism, or if those two things are tied in importance. My skin color may be classified as white, but I find white supremacy disgusting. I've met some wonderful whites, but I've also met many wonderful "others". I am all for immigration - if it weren't for immigration, I wouldn't be here. My father came from Hungary in 1913 and in his lifetime accomplished many good things. The immigrants are the people who keep us making progress, the people who make us great as a country.
Seems to me, those white people who have sold out to follow Trump miss a pertinent point. Trump, and his greatest ally, Musk, are for eliminating the color threat to their benefit. Their purpose is not to r white supremacy enable and enrich the lowly white peon, but to pit the gullible white peon against those of color, while enriching themselves as a result, and taxing the white peon and exempting themselves from taxes. They’re less for white supremacy, and more for billionaire protection.
It'll be interesting to see, when the Bloated Yam is re-elected, the Supreme Court voting 9-0 (including Clarence Thomas) to invalidate the 13th Amendment.
Nothing would make white supremacists happier than rounding up every black and Latino person in America to use as slaves again.
I live in a Latino majority city, and it's the best place I've ever lived. I would hate to see anything happen to those people or any of the "other" groups.
The idea that white executives believe that they are discriminated against collapses me. Didn't get that promotion fast enough? Wasn't allowed to make all your employees join your church?
Economist Paul Krugman: “It’s amazing how at this point the Trump campaign rests entirely on denouncing things that aren’t happening—[an] imaginary bad economy, imaginary runaway crime…"
Morbidly wealthy white CEOs, hedge fund managers, and private equity managers cannot plead the anti-tax, but we’re not white supremacist card. Ever since the Rethuglicans, the southern Democrats switched to Rethuglicans, and the John Birchers equated taxation to socialism and communism, they know that really means they don’t want their White dollars paying for schools, roads, and health care in counties that are predominantly people of color.
And white supremacists have done so well in the U. S. too. Trump has lost the popular vote twice. The Deep South - Mississippi, Alabama, et al. - is not exactly a shining example of economic success. The Great Replacement Theory finds support from MAGA and Viktor Orban only. For sure, a remarkable success story.
David: you have no idea about Alabama’s economic policies/conditions or you would have been stating exactly where we failed. Your broad brush of the South is another form of bigotry and an unwillingness to be educated.
Well said, Dean. I am beginning to believe that old white men in power are in fear of losing to better prepared and better equipped and better educated black and brown folks with more motivation will replace them for just and reasonable cause. So the replacement theory isn't really a theory, it's a confession of their fears.
I’ve said all along if it’s not the racism and misogyny, it’s the greed, and if it’s the greed, they must be able to overlook the racism and misogyny, which is probably even worse.
When my Boriqua (Puerto Rican) husband and I first married in 1982, we lived in a colorfully activated neighborhood in Brooklyn named Bushwick. I went back just to see my old hood and was hoping to buy some Latin vegetables for a Boriqueno dish I was making. When I emerged from the L at Knickerbocker, I saw a sea of white faces! Creepy cabronas jogging in very revealing outfits, craft beer this, boutique that—it was shocking! Back when we lived there (my husband passed in 1993; was a VietVet 1968-1970; from various ailments due to war wounds and PTSD) I could borrow some cafe de Pilon from Migali next door, or sugar from Carmen on the ground floor—it was a community, a new family. Now—just muy malo. These whites made it into something it never was supposed to be! It was scary. And it was nauseating. I became so unnerved, so horrified that after my walk about the place I had to jump back on the train—it was that creepily BAD. Where were all my husband’s lo gente?!? What happened? Truth be told—pushed out. Bought out. Frightened out. It was the pinnacle of the grotesque. Nu Yawk is not the town that I USED to love. It is now a white, yuppie desert with individuals that I wouldn’t want to know.. Very disturbing and distressing….
The billionaire class paid a lot of money to build a judiciary that is hostile to voting rights, DEI, affirmative action, women's rights, labor rights and anything else that might result in a loss of one dime in their pockets. If only a Democratic trifecta had the balls to raise the marginal tax rate to 50% (at least), raise the Estate tax to 100% over $50 million, and pass a wealth tax to be paid annually on assets in excess of say $100M. The rich would still be rich. Musk would still be an asshole. And Jeff Bezos would still be banging Lauren Sanchez on his $800M yacht. But the country would be a lot better off.
While in agreement with your comment, one caveat:
A tax of 100% leaves nothing - that would be called confiscation.
Dear Mr. Carsten, For clarification a marginal tax rate of 100% would only begin once some established earnings threshold has been exceeded. Let's assume the threshold is set by law at $100 million. Any earnings above $100 million would be payable to the IRS at the 100% rate. Whatever rate, presumably lower, up to the $100 million threshold would still leave the earner a substantial sum of money after tax. In the 1950's the top marginal tax rate of 91% kicked in only if the earner exceeded the lawful threshold of $200,000. If she or she earned $200,001 then the additional tax above the threshold amounted to 91 cents.
I understood that from the get go - and stand by my comment.
Ok. But taxes need to be high when income disparities are at extremes. You may object. IMHO, taxes are a necessity for income redistribution at such times.
That was an excruciating read. It must take a lot out of you to stay in that place long enough to write it all down. Ty
As a white woman, I have never felt discrimination for being white, but I have often been mistreated because I’m a woman. There is no such thing as anti-white discrimination.
There are times when I’m ashamed to be white. My black and brown sisters and brothers have the right to be treated with respect and equality simply because we are all members of one race - the human race!
I agree 100%. My children and grandchildren are mixed race; my niece is transitioning to be my nephew, my friends are of various races, ages, backgrounds, & sexual orientation. I love them all.
I know discrimination as a white woman. Why Congress has lost its collective spine puzzles me. Their lust for power and support for a man with not only hate but dementia will eventually take them down.
Musk, Melanie & her parents are immigrants. They need to be sent back. What about TFG’s sil & daughter who are Jewish? Do they get swept up in the purge he lusts after?
MSM has sold out and the truth is found in sites like Reich, Mary Trump, Jay, & Dean to name a few.
It is interesting to note that white people are not the majority in America today. A recent article based on (I think) the census has white people at less than 50% of the population. America is not the land of the free, and not all people are brave.
In the 1960s I filled out job applications that asked for race: HUMAN RACE. That is the only race. The “race” tfg and his minions are screaming about is not a scientifically valid argument; it is a SOCIAL CONSTRUCT.
Harris/Wolz and a Blue Congress is critical to saving Democracy. ♥️
You are absolutely right about race being a social construct. You again remind me of the anthropology class I took, titled "The Concept of Race", which basically pointed out that if you grouped all the people of the world according to specific sets of characteristics, and lined them up, you would have peaks where those characteristics are and everything in between in the valleys, and up and down the sides of those peaks. There is only one race. And the different "races" have characteristics that enable them to survive in the regions where they originated.
Absolutely right!
Couldn't agree more. This land started out with no white people. It doesn't belong to us whites. We should never forget that.
I worked for the Seminole Tribe of Florida out in the Everglades. They had Sen. John McCain’s brother as the main speaker on Veterans’ Day. I asked the school principal, a Sioux from South Dakota, why Native people were such strong supporters of veterans and the military.
He said, “We don’t want to be invaded again.”
Unless a person is a Native American, we are all immigrants.
As Mother Teresa said: “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
... and even the "Native" Americans "invaded" this land coming from Siberia across the Bering Strait. And the people from Siberia came, as all others do, from Africa.
I join you in feeling ashamed to be white, just like I often feel ashamed to have Christian beliefs (even though those beliefs are not tightly held). EVERYONE deserves to be treated with respect and to have equality.
You shouldn't be ashamed to be white or Christian, Susan. It's how you behave that matters.
Thank you, Paula. Unfortunately I am good at feeling shame (leftover from childhood) and I remember from way back, one of the owners of the quilt store I spent time at would preface everything she said with "I'm a Christian" which was invariably followed by spewing hate. Because of her I never wanted anyone to know about it when I did become a Christian. I agree with you completely that what matters is how you behave.
I can understand that but just because one person in a category is awful doesn't mean everyone is. You know this!! Please don't beat yourself up!!
I promise you, I don't beat myself up over that. These days there are so many supposed Christians who are anything but, that I choose to act appropriately rather than advertise anything. Actually, some of my friends might question if I'm really Christian because I am accepting of other religions and value them, too.
I am with you as I don’t talk about what I believe (other than these forums!); my life is a testament of my beliefs.
👍
As you are aware, those who profess to be a Christian do not follow the teachings of Jesus but the mythology of Paul and the Old Testament.
Sharon: how do you tell the difference between... being discriminated for being a woman or being discriminated as a white person?
By the way I am treated differently than my while male family members. I am being ‘mansplained’ about subjects I know more about than the man giving the “information”.
and There it is, Dean, What donOLD's whole campaign has been about, White Supremacy! You've Nailed it, once again, it's all about the Power of Hate, and J D Vance is an echo chamber for IT. Let's see what Tim Walz does with that dip shit tonight on the Debate stage?! The rules for this gig reads like it's for a contestant on the Jerry Springer show?! I think the network wants a literal"Street Fight" to happen on Air. Terrific piece this morning ☕ Dean Thanks 💯👍🇺🇸💙🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
Saw you on the Stephanie Miller show this morning ☕ Good Job 💯
Being all about white supremacy is stupid. IMO. I find myself wondering if the corporate media executives have to fight within themselves over whether money is more important than racism, or if those two things are tied in importance. My skin color may be classified as white, but I find white supremacy disgusting. I've met some wonderful whites, but I've also met many wonderful "others". I am all for immigration - if it weren't for immigration, I wouldn't be here. My father came from Hungary in 1913 and in his lifetime accomplished many good things. The immigrants are the people who keep us making progress, the people who make us great as a country.
Of course they do, and BTW, both Trump and Vance are only here because of immigrants. As for Musk and Thiel, enough said.
Among everything else, there are words Trump as ruined:
One is the word “beautiful.”
Another is “frankly” which is always part of a sentence full of lies.
And then he uses “unbelievable” as part of lying claims about himself.
Also, “never before seen” again falsely describing something about himself!
We CANNOT let him win!
VOTE VOTE VOTE Democrat!
💙💙🇺🇸💙💙
Of course he uses "unbelievable" - it's projection again. He IS the epitome of unbelievable.
Seems to me, those white people who have sold out to follow Trump miss a pertinent point. Trump, and his greatest ally, Musk, are for eliminating the color threat to their benefit. Their purpose is not to r white supremacy enable and enrich the lowly white peon, but to pit the gullible white peon against those of color, while enriching themselves as a result, and taxing the white peon and exempting themselves from taxes. They’re less for white supremacy, and more for billionaire protection.
It'll be interesting to see, when the Bloated Yam is re-elected, the Supreme Court voting 9-0 (including Clarence Thomas) to invalidate the 13th Amendment.
Nothing would make white supremacists happier than rounding up every black and Latino person in America to use as slaves again.
I live in a Latino majority city, and it's the best place I've ever lived. I would hate to see anything happen to those people or any of the "other" groups.
So then someone can buy Thomas as their slave and put him to work digging ditches.
His wife would love the irony…
The idea that white executives believe that they are discriminated against collapses me. Didn't get that promotion fast enough? Wasn't allowed to make all your employees join your church?
Harris for the People!
The halloween season fantasies, lawless depravity & corruption of MAGA leadership has consequences. That the base may "lap it up" is not an excuse, but of course MSM needs to normalize the whining MAGA depravity & create a horse race…ads, eyeballs, $...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmr1owmG2aI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQt1Na560Mc
Trump's idea of stolen valor? https://youtube.com/shorts/UTJ6ZYEBgHg?si=74JzRZA7LzrrLwy6
Economist Paul Krugman: “It’s amazing how at this point the Trump campaign rests entirely on denouncing things that aren’t happening—[an] imaginary bad economy, imaginary runaway crime…"
Morbidly wealthy white CEOs, hedge fund managers, and private equity managers cannot plead the anti-tax, but we’re not white supremacist card. Ever since the Rethuglicans, the southern Democrats switched to Rethuglicans, and the John Birchers equated taxation to socialism and communism, they know that really means they don’t want their White dollars paying for schools, roads, and health care in counties that are predominantly people of color.
And white supremacists have done so well in the U. S. too. Trump has lost the popular vote twice. The Deep South - Mississippi, Alabama, et al. - is not exactly a shining example of economic success. The Great Replacement Theory finds support from MAGA and Viktor Orban only. For sure, a remarkable success story.
David: you have no idea about Alabama’s economic policies/conditions or you would have been stating exactly where we failed. Your broad brush of the South is another form of bigotry and an unwillingness to be educated.
Well said, Dean. I am beginning to believe that old white men in power are in fear of losing to better prepared and better equipped and better educated black and brown folks with more motivation will replace them for just and reasonable cause. So the replacement theory isn't really a theory, it's a confession of their fears.
I’ve said all along if it’s not the racism and misogyny, it’s the greed, and if it’s the greed, they must be able to overlook the racism and misogyny, which is probably even worse.
Shit, Dean..... this must have sucked to write but thanks for doing it... 🤔😒
When my Boriqua (Puerto Rican) husband and I first married in 1982, we lived in a colorfully activated neighborhood in Brooklyn named Bushwick. I went back just to see my old hood and was hoping to buy some Latin vegetables for a Boriqueno dish I was making. When I emerged from the L at Knickerbocker, I saw a sea of white faces! Creepy cabronas jogging in very revealing outfits, craft beer this, boutique that—it was shocking! Back when we lived there (my husband passed in 1993; was a VietVet 1968-1970; from various ailments due to war wounds and PTSD) I could borrow some cafe de Pilon from Migali next door, or sugar from Carmen on the ground floor—it was a community, a new family. Now—just muy malo. These whites made it into something it never was supposed to be! It was scary. And it was nauseating. I became so unnerved, so horrified that after my walk about the place I had to jump back on the train—it was that creepily BAD. Where were all my husband’s lo gente?!? What happened? Truth be told—pushed out. Bought out. Frightened out. It was the pinnacle of the grotesque. Nu Yawk is not the town that I USED to love. It is now a white, yuppie desert with individuals that I wouldn’t want to know.. Very disturbing and distressing….