Articles by Paul Buchheit
A 2% Financial Wealth Tax Would Provide a $12,000 Annual Stipend to Every American Household
Paul Buchheit · Careful analysis reveals a number of excellent arguments for the implementation of a Universal Basic Income
How 90% of American Households Lost an Average of $17,000 in Wealth to the Plutocrats in 2016
Paul Buchheit · America has always been great for the richest 1%, and it's rapidly becoming greater. Confirmation comes from recent work by Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman; and from the 2015-2016 Credit Suisse 
The Painful Facts, State-By-State: How We're Victimized by Corporate State Tax Avoidance
Paul Buchheit · Corporate data from numerous sources, including annual reports directly from the companies themselves, has been merged and matched and managed into two spreadsheets that reveal state-by-state corporate tax avoidance. The results show...
Why We Need a Guaranteed Income. Soon.
Paul Buchheit · A thought for Labor Day: In the not-too-distant future we might wait around for a package delivery, hurry off to class, grab a taxi downtown, meet the family for dinner, and then take the train home. All without being served by a...
How to Steal from the Taxpayers While Blaming the Poor
Paul Buchheit · It's a vicious circle of hypocrisy: Americans dependent on the safety net are urged to "get a job" by the same free-market system that pays them too little to avoid being dependent on the safety net.   Theft, Part 1: The Average U.S...
The 6-Step Process to Wipe Out the Poor Half of America
Paul Buchheit · One of the themes of the superb writing of Henry Giroux is that more and more Americans are becoming "disposable," recognized as either commodities or criminals by the more fortunate members of society. There seems to be a method to...
7 Candidates for Corporate Rip-Off of the Year
Paul Buchheit · There are so many to choose from. Every one of these selections is an act of corporate treachery that takes billions of dollars from the American people.  1. Selling Medication For Up To 100 Times More Than It's Worth  Pharmaceutical...
Why the Super-Rich Should Pay Super Taxes
Paul Buchheit · Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said, "It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally...It's a game we play...I see nothing wrong with playing the game because we set it up to be a game." It's not a game for Americans who need jobs...
Seven Ripoffs That Capitalists Would Like to Keep Out of the Media
Paul Buchheit · Tax-avoiding, consumer-exploiting big business leaders are largely responsible for these abuses. Congress just lets it happen. Corporate heads and members of Congress seem incapable of relating to the people that are being victimized...
How Redistribution to the Rich Has Broken the Back of America
Paul Buchheit · Conservative columnist Thomas Sowell recently declared, "The history of the 20th century is full of examples of countries that set out to redistribu
Add It Up: The Average American Family Pays $6,000 a Year in Subsidies to Big Business
Paul Buchheit · $6,000. That's over and above our payment
Five Acts of Terror Since 9/11. By the People We Chose to Protect Us.
Paul Buchheit · Every clear-thinking American knows that education and jobs are needed more than armed guards in poor neighborhoods. But average Americans are led to believe in a terrorist threat that may or may not exist, and that in any case is...
Where Are Workers Most Underpaid: Apple, Walmart or McDonald's?
Paul Buchheit · A study determined that due to low wages and employee's reliance on government subsidies, a typical Walmart store costs taxpayers over $1.7 million per year, or about $5,815 per employee. Apple, Walmart and McDonald's are among the...
How Corporate Capitalism Is Dismembering America
Paul Buchheit · Too many Americans are unaware of the extreme disparities that have been caused by the unregulated profit incentive of capitalism. Our winner-take-all system is flailing away at once-healthy parts of society, leaving them like...
The Extremist Cult of Capitalism
Paul Buchheit · A 'cult,' according to Merriam-Webster, can be defined as "Great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work..(and)..a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion."
Some Outrageous Facts about Inequality
Paul Buchheit · Studying inequality in America reveals some facts that are truly hard to believe. Amidst all the absurdity a few stand out. A homeless person sits under blankets at a Wall Street subway station in New York City. (Credit: AP/Mark Lennihan)