RAMPELL: Likely G.O.P. presidential candidates are having a "Piketty moment." "Here's Mitt Romney, in a speech last week: 'Under President Obama, the rich have gotten richer, income inequality has gotten worse and there are more people in poverty than ever before.' Sound-bite highlights from his past presidential campaign, you may recall, included a reference to the '47 percent' who don't pay federal income taxes and a conclusion that 'my job is not to worry about those people.' Apparently his job description has changed." The Washington Post.
BOUIE: Finally, Republicans are rejoining the economic conversation. "For as odd as it is to hear Romney (of “47 percent” fame) disdain the plutocratic economy, it’s also a welcome change. After 15 years of bad economic news—from sluggish growth and wage stagnation to a world-historical recession—we are finally at a point of real progress. Now is the time to talk frankly about what we need to further our gains and ensure broad prosperity. And, sincere or not, it’s good that Republicans want to be part of that conversation." Slate.
GERSON: Republicans have an agenda for the middle class, too. "The new ideas found in the State of the Union speech — increasing the child-care tax credit, providing additional help to make community college affordable, paid maternity leave — are anything but boldly progressive. They are middle-sized proposals addressed to middle-class needs. ... Republicans have a case to make for their own version of middle-class economics. And, for the first time in a long time, they seem to want to." The Washington Post.
MEYERSON: It's all just talk. "The GOP would be happy to increase workers’ incomes if it didn’t involve diminishing the ability of wealthy investors and CEOs to claim the lion’s share of Americans’ incomes for themselves. Alas, for the Republicans, that’s arithmetically impossible. Once the national discourse turns to economic inequality, Republicans, already averse to the claims of science, will also have to dismiss the validity of math." The Washington Post.
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George Soros: On The Coming Class War In The United States
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