Valerie Strauss has an interesting piece today, written by a middle-class parent who had the opportunity to go to a meeting of some hyper-rich people in New York City having to do with setting up yet another extremely expensive private school in Manhattan for their own privileged children.
The writer draws a number of contrasts with the education of the vast majority of NYC schoolchildren, who attend the public schools.
Here is the URL:
This excerpt from the book Radical Possibilities by Jean Anyon gives a little history of what’s been happening to taxes in the US over the past 150 years. I recommend it. Here are a couple of pages. The part listing companies that don’t pay any taxes at all (including Microsoft, GE, Colgate-Palmolive) is near the end.
If you want to look up the sources cited in this article, go ahead and click on the Amazon link I provided above (or else here), and then click on “search inside” the book image that will appear. The first source cited comes from the following book, which I haven’t read, but looks interesting:
