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- American kids are 70% more likely to die before adulthood vs. other rich nations https://www.vox.com/health-care/2018/1/8/16863656/childhood-mortality-united-states 15 comments
- Turns Out Americans Actually Do Want to Tax the Rich https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tax-the-rich-786673/ 431 comments politics
- Very Rich Americans are having more kids. http://www.grist.org/population/2011-03-03-are-rich-americans-having-more-kids 13 comments reddit.com
- Tax the rich? Most Americans think it's a great idea https://www.salon.com/2019/02/23/tax-the-rich-most-americans-think-its-a-great-idea/ 382 comments politics
- The class war in American politics is over. The rich won. http://www.vox.com/2014/9/3/6098677/the-class-war-in-american-politics-is-over-the-rich-won?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=ezraklein&utm_content=wednesday 146 comments politics
- The preachers getting rich from poor Americans https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-47675301 3 comments politics
- New poll: Americans overwhelmingly support taxing the wealth of the very rich https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/428747-new-poll-americans-overwhelmingly-support-taxing-the-wealth-of 76 comments politics
- Rich Americans have found yet another tax loophole https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-06/rich-professionals-can-exploit-tax-break-for-farms-small-firms 15 comments politics
- Majority of Americans Say No to Tax Cuts for the Rich, But Who Cares? http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/380862/majority_of_americans_say_no_to_tax_cuts_for_the_rich,_but_who_cares/#paragraph3 14 comments politics
- The Great American Tax Haven: why the super-rich love South Dakota https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/14/the-great-american-tax-haven-why-the-super-rich-love-south-dakota-trust-laws 10 comments politics
- Elizabeth Warren to propose new ‘wealth tax’ on very rich Americans, economist says https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/24/elizabeth-warren-propose-new-wealth-tax-very-rich-americans-economist-says/?utm_term=.c9fbec523de8 19 comments politics
- Senate probe accuses Swiss bank of helping rich Americans evade taxes http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-credit-suisse-tax-evasion-levin-senate-20140225,0,959623,full.story 4 comments politics
- Occupy Wall Street says the top one 1 percent of Americans have gotten too rich. Are they right? http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2011/10/occupy_wall_street_says_the_top_one_1_percent_of_americans_have_.html 3 comments economy
- Do I find it embarrassing that somebody whose income is in the top 1% of American households thinks that he is not rich? Yes. http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/09/in-which-mr-deling-responds-to-someone-who-might-be-professor-todd-henderson.html 97 comments politics
- Most Americans Point to Circumstances, Not Work Ethic, for Why People Are Rich or Poor https://www.people-press.org/2020/03/02/most-americans-point-to-circumstances-not-work-ethic-as-reasons-people-are-rich-or-poor/ 83 comments politics
- The preachers getting rich from poor Americans - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-47675301 93 comments worldnews
- More than 100 Americans Are Rich Enough to Buy the Presidential Election Outright https://theintercept.com/2016/08/06/more-than-100-americans-are-rich-enough-to-buy-the-presidential-election-outright/ 102 comments politics
- Green party candidate Rich WhitNEY upset that his name spelled "Rich Whitey" on ballots for African-American districts http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/2801976,cst-nws-whitney14.article?referrer=dongs 28 comments politics
- The Average American Pays Tax on Over Half Their Wealth. Shouldn't the Very Rich Do the Same? - Our current national confusion over wealth taxes serves only the wealthy. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/02/28/average-american-pays-tax-over-half-their-wealth-shouldnt-very-rich-do-same 769 comments politics
- Rich Americans are trying to buy their own personal ventilators during the coronavirus pandemic, despite a national shortage https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-rich-in-us-trying-to-buy-their-own-ventilators-2020-3 209 comments politics
- “Black Americans for a Better Future” Super PAC 100% Funded by Rich White Guys https://theintercept.com/2016/01/28/black-americans-for-a-better-future-super-pac-100-funded-by-rich-white-guys/ 41 comments politics
- 'Rich people won' — Cramer says Fed rate hikes widen the wealth gap by hurting working Americans https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/20/cramer-fed-rate-hikes-widen-wealth-gap-by-hurting-working-americans.html 88 comments politics
- Gallup: "63% of Americans say money and wealth distribution is unfair. Slight majority of 52% favor heavy taxes on rich as fix." http://www.gallup.com/poll/182987/americans-continue-say-wealth-distribution-unfair.aspx?utm_source=economy&utm_medium=newsfeed&utm_campaign=tiles 414 comments politics
- Amanda Knox is free because she's rich and American, says Patrick Lumumba | US news | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/28/amanda-knox-free-rich-american-patrick-lumumba-meredith-kercher-murder 4 comments worldnews
- The rich get richer: The average American pay rose 0.5% from 2009 to 2010, as opposed to the 23% increase of 200 of America's top executives http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11200/1161274-192.stm#ixzz1syzhotfu 48 comments politics
- When it comes to paying for a health care overhaul, Americans see just one way to go - Tax the rich http://www.mail.com/article.aspx/politics/0/apnews/general-politics/20091117/u_us-ap-poll-health-taxes 4 comments politics
- We live in a society where the wealthiest Americans have trillions of dollars between them, the rich getting richer...and yet, a STAGGERING 38% of Americans, have difficulty affording FOOD TO EAT. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/3/13246/92309/633/561778 87 comments politics
- China’s Ultra-Rich Are Losing Their Favorite Escape Route to Europe • For the first time ever, more Americans are tapping Portugal’s golden visa program than their Chinese counterparts. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-02/portugal-golden-visas-rich-chinese-lose-their-favorite-escape-route-to-europe 3 comments europes
- The richest 1 percent of Americans aren’t paying $163,000,000,000 they owe in taxes each year. The real freeloaders in this country are the rich, not the poor. https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1436386091997675525 226 comments economy
- American Police Are Inadequately Trained: Officers in the United States don’t get as much instruction as police in other rich countries. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/04/daunte-wright-and-crisis-american-police-training/618649/ 36 comments politics
- 'Heads we win, tails you lose': how America's rich have turned pandemic into profit | As 26 million Americans lose their jobs, the billionaire class has added $308bn to its wealth https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/26/heads-we-win-tails-you-lose-how-americas-rich-have-turned-pandemic-into-profit 553 comments politics
- Rich Americans Are Interfering in Our Elections - Amazon's efforts to manipulate Seattle's city council race show that wealthy individuals and companies are threats to democracy. https://newrepublic.com/article/155664/rich-americans-interfering-elections 290 comments politics
- “One economist argued in 2005 that roughly one in four Americans are employed to guard in various forms the wealth of the rich. So if you want to get rid of rich and poor, get rid of guard labour.”- Russell Brand {What monkeys and the Queen taught me about inequality} (www.theguardian.com) http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/13/monkeys-queen-inequality-capitalism-rich-poor-private-security?cmp=fb_gu 9 comments worldnews
- 'Super PACs' largely funded by a wealthy few A few super-rich individuals are using their personal and corporate wealth to influence American politics in an unprecedented manner. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-big-donors-20120202,0,3986284.story 3 comments politics
- Why the Rich Love Unemployment. "Over the last two years, out-of-work Americans have played a critical role in helping the richest one percent recover trillions in financial wealth..." http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/05/mark-provost-why-the-rich-love-unemployment.html 109 comments politics
- "You Americans are such suckers," he said. "You think that the rules for taxes that apply to rich people also apply to working people, but they don't. When working peoples' taxes go up, their pay goes up. When their taxes go down, their pay goes down..." http://www.truth-out.org/roll-back-reagan-tax-cuts65332 4 comments reddit.com
- "We are talking about people who are already fantastically rich. And who, despite this, are absolutely hell-bent on getting richer, even if that means depriving hundreds of millions of people in the American middle class of their middle classness. Are they not essentially sociopathic?" http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/09/05-0 1112 comments politics
- The Really Creepy People Behind the Libertarian-Inspired Billionaire Sea Castles: The stinking rich are planning billion-dollar luxury liners that keep the land-based Americans they've plundered at a safe distance http://www.alternet.org/economy/147058/the_really_creepy_people_behind_the_libertarian-inspired_billionaire_sea_castles/ 48 comments politics
- If you or I (americans) did this, there would be a $3300 fine.. But not for this idiot, who went to college in the US, and just happens to be a diplomat for an oil-rich nation.. http://www.cnn.com/2010/crime/04/08/us.airliner.disturbance/?hpt=t1 27 comments reddit.com
- The richest 400 Americans -- just 400 people -- own MORE than the bottom 150 million Americans combined. 400 rich Americans have got more stashed away than half the entire country! http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/print.php?id=237 157 comments politics