Too Much » Alternate Approaches http://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. Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:17:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 To End Extreme Poverty, End Extreme Wealth http://toomuchonline.org/to-end-extreme-poverty-end-extreme-wealth/ http://toomuchonline.org/to-end-extreme-poverty-end-extreme-wealth/#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:06:14 +0000 Sam http://toomuchonline.org/?p=4987 The world's wealthy gathered in the Alps again last week to discuss how to 'solve' the world's problems. The world's biggest problem, suggests one top global anti-poverty outfit, may be their fortunes.

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]]> http://toomuchonline.org/to-end-extreme-poverty-end-extreme-wealth/feed/ 1 Five Plutocracy-Busting Ideas Worth a Revisit http://toomuchonline.org/five-plutocracy-busting-ideas-from-americas-past/ http://toomuchonline.org/five-plutocracy-busting-ideas-from-americas-past/#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:37:30 +0000 Sam http://toomuchonline.org/?p=4757 We today can take more than inspiration from the struggles against plutocracy progressives waged years ago. We can take a host of still cutting-edge policy proposals.

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]]> http://toomuchonline.org/facebook-and-tahrir-square-revisited/feed/ 0 Do We Need ‘Student Loans’ for Billionaires? http://toomuchonline.org/wealth-tax-student-loans-for-billionaires/ http://toomuchonline.org/wealth-tax-student-loans-for-billionaires/#comments Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:27:32 +0000 Sam http://toomuchonline.org/?p=3465 Students of modest means must pay a stiff price to build their capacity to contribute to society — and pay interest if they can't afford that price. A wealth tax could apply this same principle to America's rich.

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]]> http://toomuchonline.org/wealth-tax-student-loans-for-billionaires/feed/ 0 Doing Debt Ceiling Battle the FDR Way http://toomuchonline.org/debt-ceiling-history-fdr-way/ http://toomuchonline.org/debt-ceiling-history-fdr-way/#comments Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:16:48 +0000 Sam http://toomuchonline.org/?p=3221 At times of national fiscal crisis, President Franklin Roosevelt ever so firmly believed, you don't give the awesomely affluent a free pass. You pound them — and then you pound them some more.

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]]> http://toomuchonline.org/debt-ceiling-history-fdr-way/feed/ 32 Here’s What Democracy, Economically, Looks Like http://toomuchonline.org/egyptian-maximum-wage/ http://toomuchonline.org/egyptian-maximum-wage/#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:42:11 +0000 Sam http://toomuchonline.org/?p=3155 The global media spotlight may now be gone, but Egypt's revolutionaries are still making history, with a spirited campaign for a 'maximum wage.'

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]]> http://toomuchonline.org/egyptian-maximum-wage/feed/ 1 This July 4 Let’s Hail a Patriot Not Yet in the Pantheon http://toomuchonline.org/robert-coram-egalitarian-patriot/ http://toomuchonline.org/robert-coram-egalitarian-patriot/#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:41:24 +0000 Sam http://toomuchonline.org/?p=3135 A decade into a staggeringly unequal 21st century United States, historians have rediscovered a long-forgotten Revolutionary War hero who stirred men’s souls with a remarkably far-sighted egalitarian vision.

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]]> http://toomuchonline.org/robert-coram-egalitarian-patriot/feed/ 0 Executive Pay Excess: A New Battlefront http://toomuchonline.org/executive-pay-excess-a-new-battlefront/ http://toomuchonline.org/executive-pay-excess-a-new-battlefront/#comments Sun, 17 Apr 2011 21:23:35 +0000 Sam http://toomuchonline.org/?p=2742 Taxpayers, once again this year, are subsidizing over-the-top CEO pay by the billions. But now on the table: a promising new proposal that encourages America's corporations to share that excess — or else.

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