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Posts Tagged ‘wealthism’
February 21st, 2017 - 9:41 am § in The Ave Scene
GATES RULES
David Brewster Keeping up with the Gateses. A new survey finds there are now 2,473 billionaires in the world, led by Bill Gates ($89.3 billion) and Warren Buffett ($73.5 billion), with Jeff Bezos coming in at a not-shabby fourth place. Nine of the top 10 are in America; quite a few drop out of the [[...]
October 17th, 2016 - 2:02 am § in The Ave Scene
How NOT to pay taxes in Seattle
So here in ohso liberal Seattle, we have no state income tax .. mostly we pay real estate taxes. That might be OK, except we also offer yuge tax breaks to folks who own expensive homes. I live in a damn pricey neighborhood. A few months ago I posted about a house downstreet has been […][...]
September 13th, 2016 - 9:37 am § in The Ave Scene
Paul Allen’s Octopus Featured in The Guardian
The ultra rich are getting poorer! They control only $19.3tn in assets, down from $22tn the year before. But sales of super-yachts rose 40% last year! (abstracted from Julia Kollewe The Guardian) The global super rich continued to splash out on super-yachts and luxury goods last year, despite[...]
August 29th, 2016 - 12:49 pm § in Misc.
WOW!!! All we need to do is get rid of all jobs here, shelter and hide rich folks money and move our yachts to the coast. Brilliant!
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August 23rd, 2016 - 10:10 am § in The Ave Scene
David Brewster: The Corporate Industrial Foundation Axi
David Brewster NYTimes does an expose of the Brookings Institution, showing how corporate donations result in brand-building favors. Disturbing (and long) article. Seattle has connections with some of the programs mentioned in the story, with mentions of Boeing, Microsoft, Vulcan, and Hitachi. The M[...]
August 2nd, 2016 - 1:41 am § in Donald Trump, Misc.
Warren Buffett Challenges Trump to a Tax Duel
OMAHA, Neb. — The “Oracle of Omaha” went directly after Trump, dismissing the Republican real estate magnate’s excuse for not releasing his tax returns. “I would like to make him an offer I hope he can’t refuse,” Buffett told Clinton’s supporters at a rally. “I’ve got news for h[...]
Get to Eat Dinner with Trump’s Best Wealthy Friends
Today’s Email from the Donald Yeh, Bill Clinton and Barack used this gimmick too. BUT, they invited the winner to eat with a a small group around a table. Sadly I never won. The Donald is a lot more clever. He wants to raffle off a chance to eat with wealthy donors at some $5000 […][...]