Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother -… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
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The modern welfare state, highly touted as soaking the rich to subsidize the poor, does no such thing. In fact, soaking the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“There!" she said, as she spread the tablecloth and put the sandwiches in a neat pile upon it. "Don't they look tempting?… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In a process that had begun in the 1980s and suddenly accelerated in the early 2000s ... [t]he peaks of great wealth… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
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Americans are falling out of the middle class, not into it. And they deserve relief. I absolute support extending the Bush tax… — Paul Tonko Copy Share Image
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