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     A rather vicious cycle has been at work for years. Reduced taxes on the rich leave them with more money to influence politicians and politics.  Their influence wins them further tax reductions, which gives them still more money to put to political use.  When the loss of tax revenue from the rich worsens already strained government budgets, the rich press politicians to cut public services and government jobs and not even debate a return to the higher taxes the rich used to pay.

---Richard Wolff

Gracen's Painting

Gracen, our 7 year old artist in residence, painted this picture of a snowman after drinking hot cocoa.

Stages of Rad

We got up one morning this week to find our neighbor's bull loitering in our garden. I went out and shooed him back down the lane to his owner's place. When Gracen came home from school and heard about it she was impressed and pronounced me a "rad" grandpa. I'm sure, in her imagination, she saw me in a much more adventurous light than what actually happened. But she reminded me that I was only at stage 1 of radness. Stage 2 would require that I talk cool. Stage 3, of course, would be attained if I dressed cool. Acting cool was a requirement for stage 4. And to achieve stage 5 of radness I would have to show some pretty cool dance moves. I think I'm content to remain in stage 1.