Tax Billionaires, Save Lives: California’s Proposition 40 Is Met With a Heap of Meritless Objections
A one-time tax on the super wealthy is an important step toward greater equality.
Voilà—today's statement from the Federal Open Market Committee. The Fed will use "all available tools." Yawn... But there was one dissenter, Jeffrey M. Lacker, "who preferred to expand the monetary base at this time by purchasing U.S. Treasury securities rather than through targeted credit programs."
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