Common Wealth

Taxes protect and empower our common wealth, what we all share. Protection and empowerment serve the common good. Because of our common wealth, we are all protected and America’s empowering infrastructure is available to all. That is a fundamental America value: the common wealth should serve the common good. It benefits everyone.

Fiscal Conservatism Has It’s Place – Just Not at the Federal Level

If the federal government were forced into fiscal conservatism and had to balance its budget instead of balancing the economy,…

5 years ago

What I Would Teach a Child in My Care

That self-made individuals are a myth. That empathy is natural and requires nurturing. That we are all responsible for ourselves…

7 years ago

Citizenship Dues and Non-profit Investing – Creating and Maintaining the Middle Class

Our recent history shows us how we created and maintained a prosperous middle class and still had a Forbes 400…

12 years ago

Moral Principles – What Conservatives Know and Progressives Take for Granted

Recent political ads lie about President Obama and his suggestions to the states on the national welfare program. As stated…

12 years ago

Hundreds of Millions of Consumers Create Jobs – Not Millions in Tax Breaks for the Mega and Ultra Rich

Conservatives without conscience (CWC) are imagining that the mega and ultra rich will create jobs if they are certain they…

14 years ago

Redistribution of America’s Income – More for The Mega Rich or the Common Wealth?

In summary, America's common wealth has been hit by a triple whammy: tax cuts for the rich far larger that…

15 years ago

Freedom Isn’t Free – What Are We Willing to Pay For It?

Before deciding what freedom is worth to us in this time of financial catastrophe and preemptive war, let's take a…

15 years ago

Causation – Paying Taxes Contributes to Everyone’s Success

... paying taxes supports America’s infrastructure and improves the chances of success for all citizens. However, cutting taxes, as the…

15 years ago

Common Wealth – Key to Our Democracy and Threatened by a Growing Aristocracy

" ... to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to afford all an unfettered start, and a fair…

16 years ago