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13th March 2012, 10:04
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/12698/oligarchy_in_the_u.s.a
APSA has no explanation for why the majority of the upper class – which has no shortage of government-influencing capital – should fall so far behind the very top earners. (Of course, relative to middle- and lower-class earners, they’ve done just fine.)
oligarchs hire skilled professionals, middle- and upper-class worker bees, to labor year-round as salaried, full-time political advocates and defenders of the oligarchy. Unlike those backing ordinary politicians, the oligarchs’ professional forces require no ideological invigoration. they function as a very well-paid mercenary army.
more than a dozen KPMG clients sued the firm for the taxes and penalties incurred after being discovered – the suits claim that KPMG bungled its job of creating shelters for tax evasion. It’s tantamount to suing your hit man for a sloppy murder.
Of the roughly 1.4 million individual contributions of $200 or more during the 2008 elections, three-fourths of the money came from a mere one-fifth of the donors, who in turn comprised one-tenth of 1 percent of American adults.
Oligarchs’ three decades of investments in activist, conservative think tanks has blazed an ideological path that drones follow. Activists at institutions like the Heritage Foundation supply ideological ammunition to the lobbyists and interest groups
APSA has no explanation for why the majority of the upper class – which has no shortage of government-influencing capital – should fall so far behind the very top earners. (Of course, relative to middle- and lower-class earners, they’ve done just fine.)
oligarchs hire skilled professionals, middle- and upper-class worker bees, to labor year-round as salaried, full-time political advocates and defenders of the oligarchy. Unlike those backing ordinary politicians, the oligarchs’ professional forces require no ideological invigoration. they function as a very well-paid mercenary army.
more than a dozen KPMG clients sued the firm for the taxes and penalties incurred after being discovered – the suits claim that KPMG bungled its job of creating shelters for tax evasion. It’s tantamount to suing your hit man for a sloppy murder.
Of the roughly 1.4 million individual contributions of $200 or more during the 2008 elections, three-fourths of the money came from a mere one-fifth of the donors, who in turn comprised one-tenth of 1 percent of American adults.
Oligarchs’ three decades of investments in activist, conservative think tanks has blazed an ideological path that drones follow. Activists at institutions like the Heritage Foundation supply ideological ammunition to the lobbyists and interest groups