Today is

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Wealthy Republicans: We Want It All


Shared by a reader, I too thought this piece written by Paul Fanlund (Cap Times) was simply superb.

Beginning with the billionaire Wryly brothers for using offshore havens to hide more than $500 million in profits from insider stock trading, to showing how Wyly's activism exemplifies how some of the wealthiest among us are obsessed with buying influence to further shake off tax and regulatory constraints, to showing how Conservative (GOP) tacticians have worked to dismantle Wisconsin's progressive tradition through slanting future elections by destroying unions, distorting political boundaries and suppressing voter turnouts.

Fanlund asks why? And what more do they want?

Read more here


No comments:

Post a Comment