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What if they held a class war and nobody noticed? For decades, liberals and progressives have been bashed for conducting a "class war" every time they suggest that it would be appropriate for the extremely wealthy to shoulder a bit more of the burden of paying for government. Meanwhile, a swarm of far-right think-tanks and political action committees have been working tirelessly to promote the idea that taxes on the wealthy should be lowered further from their historic lows, and that entitlement programs such as social security and medicare are too expensive to sustain (and in any case, immoral). The latest attempts to delegitimize public employee unions are the logical next step in what genuinely appears to be the systematic dismantlement of the middle class. This blog will highlight some of the more extreme examples of this activity that may not always show up in your news feeds.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

These Things Never Just Happen Spontaneously

In case you've been wondering how all these states (Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Florida) were able to launch coordinated attacks on collective bargaining by public unions, here is a Mother Jones article describing the network of state-level "think tanks" that are behind it.
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