Too Much https://toomuchonline.org/ Dedicated to the notion that our world would be considerably more caring, prosperous, and democratic if we narrowed the vast gap that divides our wealthy from everyone else. Fri, 02 Feb 2018 20:38:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 In France, Echoes of a Daring FDR https://toomuchonline.org/france-echoes-daring-fdr/ https://toomuchonline.org/france-echoes-daring-fdr/#comments Tue, 25 Apr 2017 02:45:29 +0000 http://toomuchonline.org/?p=7697 With a call for an income cap on society’s richest, the longshot presidential campaign of Jean-Luc Mélenchon has thrown a giant scare into the French political elite.

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]]> https://toomuchonline.org/france-echoes-daring-fdr/feed/ 1 A Flying Public Finally Erupts https://toomuchonline.org/flying-public-finally-erupts/ https://toomuchonline.org/flying-public-finally-erupts/#respond Thu, 13 Apr 2017 02:59:17 +0000 http://toomuchonline.org/?p=7703 America’s top airline execs have every incentive to treat average passengers as cattle and chattel. Could United's now infamous aisle drag upset their gravy train?

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]]> https://toomuchonline.org/flying-public-finally-erupts/feed/ 0 The Railroad Robber Baron Returns https://toomuchonline.org/return-railroad-robber-baron/ https://toomuchonline.org/return-railroad-robber-baron/#respond Sat, 18 Mar 2017 00:37:12 +0000 http://toomuchonline.org/?p=7678 If you don’t pay me $300 million, the new CEO at CSX is threatening, I’ll let your workers keep their jobs. He means it. At his last CEO stop, Hunter Harrison cashiered 34 percent of another railroad’s workforce.

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]]> https://toomuchonline.org/return-railroad-robber-baron/feed/ 0 The Charities Making Inequality Worse https://toomuchonline.org/charities-making-inequality-worse/ https://toomuchonline.org/charities-making-inequality-worse/#respond Fri, 10 Mar 2017 01:48:47 +0000 http://toomuchonline.org/?p=7684 A growing number of executives at America’s ‘do-good’ nonprofits are doing much too good — for themselves — at paycheck time.

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]]> https://toomuchonline.org/charities-making-inequality-worse/feed/ 0 Has America Become Too Generous? https://toomuchonline.org/america-become-generous/ https://toomuchonline.org/america-become-generous/#respond Fri, 03 Mar 2017 01:53:40 +0000 http://toomuchonline.org/?p=7688 The Trump White House is framing foreign aid as a devastating drain on America’s treasure. But foreign aid isn’t killing the American dream. Inequality is.

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]]> https://toomuchonline.org/america-become-generous/feed/ 0 Policing in America’s Plutocracy https://toomuchonline.org/policing-americas-plutocracy/ https://toomuchonline.org/policing-americas-plutocracy/#respond Thu, 23 Feb 2017 01:55:20 +0000 http://toomuchonline.org/?p=7691 The White House wants to see local cops cracking down on poor people who break federal laws on immigration. Why not a crackdown on the rich who scoff at tax laws?

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]]> https://toomuchonline.org/policing-americas-plutocracy/feed/ 0 A New Rationalization for Riches https://toomuchonline.org/new-rationalization-riches/ https://toomuchonline.org/new-rationalization-riches/#respond Sat, 18 Feb 2017 01:59:21 +0000 http://toomuchonline.org/?p=7693 Right-wingers are celebrating a deeply depressing new history of those rare moments where distributions of wealth have become significantly more equal.

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]]> https://toomuchonline.org/new-rationalization-riches/feed/ 0 Standing Up for ‘Bullied’ CEOs https://toomuchonline.org/standing-up-for-bullied-ceos/ https://toomuchonline.org/standing-up-for-bullied-ceos/#respond Mon, 13 Feb 2017 22:14:35 +0000 http://toomuchonline.org/?p=7665 Fortune 500 chiefs make twice as much in a month as U.S. workers make in a decade. But any move to require corporations to document that disparity, a new Trump appointee likes to argue, would be shameful.

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]]> https://toomuchonline.org/standing-up-for-bullied-ceos/feed/ 0 By the Numbers https://toomuchonline.org/by-the-numbers/ https://toomuchonline.org/by-the-numbers/#respond Mon, 13 Feb 2017 17:48:47 +0000 http://toomuchonline.org/?p=7480 By the Numbers is a post on Too Much

]]> https://toomuchonline.org/by-the-numbers/feed/ 0 What Makes a Recession ‘Great’? https://toomuchonline.org/what-made-the-great-recession-great/ https://toomuchonline.org/what-made-the-great-recession-great/#respond Mon, 06 Feb 2017 22:56:24 +0000 http://toomuchonline.org/?p=7645 People who lose their jobs tend to cut back on their household spending. But in a starkly unequal economy, they won’t be the only ones to deeply cut back their spending once unemployment starts rising.

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