This is a powerful statistic from Forbes. The Top 0.1 percent of the country captured about half of the capital gains, which are currently taxed at just 15 percent, making this a prime mechanism for increasing income inequality.  From Forbes: Capital gains are the key ingredient of income disparity in the US– and the force behind the winner [...]

I have long held the belief that when Republican deficit hypocrites talk about “reducing the deficit,” they are simply using it as secret code for “exploiting regular Americans.” They almost never have plans that would actually reduce the deficit. Their “deficit reduction” plans are mainly schemes like taking Medicare and Social Security from middle-class people, [...]