Reprise: "Plutocracy Triumphant," A Compendium Of Cartoons, Memes And Illuminating Links

Beggar running after King George V's carriage

Despite unprecedented tax cuts for the wealthy,
the "job creators" are increasingly parasitic,
intending self-aggrandizement at your expense.

While the "invisible hand" pilfers your pocket, 

The 1% provides just enough frisson to "keep you in their corner,"
cheering them on while grasping your ankles.

Why Are Americans So Poorly Paid. This One Chart Will Even Shame The 1%

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/why-are-americans-so-poorly-paid-this.html

Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.

Americans refuse to pay sufficient tax to keep civilization alive.

Ben Franklin On "No New Taxes"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/08/benjamin-franklin-on-no-new-taxes.html 

1910 Income Tax Promised To Never Shift Burden From Richest 1 - 4%

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/01/1910-income-tax-legislation-promised-to.html

"Inside Job"

Oscar Winning Documentary

Free online - with Spanish subtitles.

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2011/10/daily-dose-october-152011.html

"This Is Why They Hate You And Want You To Die"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/05/this-is-why-they-hate-you-and-want-you.html

"American Plutocracy. Who's Punished And Who's Not"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/03/american-plutocracy-whos-punished-and.html

"Politics and Economics: The 101 Courses You Wish You Had"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/01/politics-and-economics-101-curricula.html

America
Private Opulence, Public Squalor

"Pope Francis Links"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/pope-francis-links.html

Republican President Teddy Roosevelt Spearheaded The Progressive Movement

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/01/theodore-roosevelt-making-of.html

Aristotle: "Democracy Is Rule By The Needy"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/03/aristotle-on-democracy-rule-by-needy.html

"The Rich Get Ever Richer: Halfway To Plutocracy"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/03/rich-get-even-richer-halfway-to.html

"Politics and Economics: The 101 Courses You Wish You Had"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/01/politics-and-economics-101-curricula.html

Weighed down by the debts of Capitalism “a new tyranny is thus born, invisible and often virtual, which unilaterally and relentlessly imposes its own laws and rules"
Pope Francis
Excerpt: 84-page document

Teddy Roosevelt: "Malefactors of great wealth are curses to the country."

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/03/teddy-roosevelt-best-thing-ever-said-by.html

Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris

25 December, 1783

"The Remissness of our People in Paying Taxes is highly blameable; the Unwillingness to pay them is still more so. I see, in some Resolutions of Town Meetings, a Remonstrance against giving Congress a Power to take, as they call it, the People's Money out of their Pockets, tho' only to pay the Interest and Principal of Debts duly contracted. They seem to mistake the Point. Money, justly due from the People, is their Creditors' Money, and no longer the Money of the People, who, if they withold it, should be compell'd to pay by some Law.

All Property, indeed, except the Savage's temporary Cabin, his Bow, his Matchcoat, and other little Acquisitions, absolutely necessary for his Subsistence, seems to me to be the Creature of public Convention. Hence the Public has the Right of Regulating Descents, and all other Conveyances of Property, and even of limiting the Quantity and the Uses of it. All the Property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other Laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it."

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch16s12.html 

"Politics and Economics: The 101 Courses You Wish You Had"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/01/politics-and-economics-101-curricula.html




"Not to share with the poor is to steal."
Pope Francis

Pax On Both Houses: Blog Posts About Canada

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/05/compendium-my-blog-posts-concerning.html

"G.K. Chesterton and Warren Buffett's Class War"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/01/gk-chesterton-and-warren-buffetts-class.html

The Facts Are In: The Republican Party Is Terrible For Prosperity But Unparalled At Catastrophe

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-facts-are-in-republican-party-is.html

"Of The 1%, By The 1%, For The 1%,"

Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/of-1-by-1-for-1-nobel-laureate-joseph.html

Inequality: Joseph Stiglitz Brilliant Reflection On Obama's State Of The Union Address

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/01/inequality-joseph-stiglitz-brilliant.html

It's Not About Income. "It's About Net Worth, Stupid!"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/06/net-worth-of-top-10-its-not-about.html

And finally... 

Since "all wars are religious wars" (to quote Chesterton)

choose your Gods carefully.

Oh!

I nearly forgot...